University Libraries Promotion and Tenure Recognition

Herb Childress’ recent book speaks to the many stories that shadow my own academic journey. While I have been privileged to join the faculty at Penn State Brandywine, I have never quite escaped that nagging sensation that chance played a role in this great privilege, and that chance also betrayed my gifted friends and colleagues who play contingent roles in higher education. Indeed, the time that I have been able to devote to research has been enabled, in part, by the lower compensation offered to those in contingent roles. Labor, inequity, and poverty are recurring themes in my research, and I hope that in time I may have some agency to address these concerns as they manifest within the academy.