Associate Professor Mutual Mentoring Cohort
Lead:
Liz Bucar, Professor, Religion, Dean’s Leadership Fellow, CSSH
Mentoring Team:
Nicole Aljoe, Professor, English and Africana Studies, CSSH
Amy Farrell, Director and Professor, Criminology and Criminal Justice, Co-Director of the Violence and Justice Research Lab, CSSH
Serena Parekh, Distinguished Professor and Chair, Philosophy and Religion, CSSH
Liza Weinstein, Associate Professor and Chair, Sociology, CSSH
Sharmila Sen, Executive Editor-at-Large, Harvard University Press
Synopsis of mentoring grant:
The creation of this mutual mentoring cohort had four ambitious goals. First, I wanted the cohort to share advice for dealing with challenges related to work—work balance and strategies for effective leadership within NU culture. Second, I wanted to develop mechanisms to support each other as researchers and writers. Third, I wanted to create opportunities to “workshop our careers” and create with group input a two-, five-, and ten-year career plan with measurable goals and outcomes such as increasing and documenting impact of research. Four, at the completion of the program, I wanted cohort members to write a white paper on best practice for close peer-mentoring for associate professors based on the successes and challenges of this pilot.
Impact on research:
The support from this cohort helped me find the time to finish revisions on a book fast tracked by Harvard University Press (which will be published in September 2017). This is my “promotion to full project.”