Contributors
Preface
I. Starting a Career
II. Teaching and Mentoring
III. Research and Writing
IV. Orientation to the Academic Environment
V. Diversity in Academia
VI. Keeping Your Edge: Managing Your Career Over Time
Index
About the Editors
This volume guides readers through academia's informal rules and describes the problems beginning social scientists will face.
John McConnon Darley, PhD, received his bachelor's degree from Swarthmore College in 1960. He did his graduate work in the Department of Social Relations at Harvard University and received his doctoral degree in 1964. Dr. Darley was then appointed assistant professor in the Department of Psychology at New York University (NYU), where he taught from 1964 to 1968. He later left NYU to become an associate professor of social psychology at Princeton University. Dr. Darley was made professor in 1972, and from 1980 to 1985 served as chairman of the Department of Psychology. In 1989, he was named Dorman T. Warren Professor of Psychology.