Tracy Perkins

Scholar, Teacher, Digital Sociologist

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Figuring out graduate school

  • Blogs and fee-based services
    • theprofessorisin.com
    • Get a Life, PhD
    • National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity  (useful for graduate students as well as faculty – check to see if your campus has an institutional membership)
  • Books
    • Writing Literature Reviews: A Guide for Students of the Social and Behavior Sciences
    • Writing Your Dissertation in Fifteen Minutes a Day: A Guide to Starting, Revising, and Finishing Your Doctoral Thesis
    • Tricks of the Trade: How to Think about Your Research While You’re Doing It
    • Writing for Social Scientists: How to Start and Finish Your Thesis, Book, or Article
    • How to Write a Lot: A Practical Guide to Productive Academic Writing
    • The Professor is In: The Essential Guide to Turning Your Ph.D. Into a Job
    • Other online resources
      • Writing Your Journal Article in 12 Weeks – forms
      • Vitae
  • And a few of my own blog posts…
    • Academic Job Market Timeline
    • Publishing Your First Academic Article
    • How To: Applying to Give Conference Presentations
    • The Buddy System: The Best Thing I Learned in Preschool
    • Academics and the Creative Process
    • Write a Literature Review, Practice Innovation

 

 

 

Recent Posts

  • Nora McDowell speaking about women’s environmental leadership at the Smithsonian Castle
  • New(ish) journal article on public engagement in the environmental humanities
  • Teaching students to contribute to Wikipedia
  • New book chapter just published
  • Hello, Tucson!
  • Intro. to Sociology field trip to the National Museum of African American History and Culture
  • New course: Sociology of Food and Agriculture
  • Interview: Book chapter on California-Chiapas-Acre climate change policy
  • Teaching Environmental Inequality: Class research project
  • Teaching Environmental Inequality: Boat Tour of the Anacostia River

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RSS Voices from the Valley news feed

  • CalEPA announces ban of chlorpyrifos pesticide
  • New data show severity of water contamination in poor neighborhoods
  • Disadvantaged Communities Claim A Stake In State Groundwater Overhaul
  • Contentious Oregon Climate Plan Takes Lessons From California’s Mistakes
  • After a gas leak forced an evacuation in Arvin, California, residents decided to fight back
  • City needs to set aside funds for impacted communities
  • Gov. Gavin Newsom Must Act On His First California Budget By Midnight Tonight. Here’s What’s In It.
  • California’s oil and gas regulators get an “F’ grade in environmental justice report
  • Opinion: California’s trucks should be smog-checked like cars
  • Climate Change Versus Clean Water: A Battle Over California Funds

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