Experienced professor Gary Burge identifies three cohorts or stages in the academic career and explores the challenges, pitfalls and triumphs of each. Based on a career's worth of experiences, observations and insights, he leads academics to reflect on where they are, have been and are headed in their professional lives.

Gary M. Burge (PhD, University of Aberdeen) is professor of New Testament and academic dean at Calvin Theological Seminary. He previously taught for twenty-five years at Wheaton College and is the author of many books such as Theology Questions Everyone Asks (with coeditor David Lauber), A Week in the Life of a Roman Centurion, Mapping Your Academic Career, and The New Testament in Antiquity (second edition coauthored with Gene Green).