The Cocoon's job market mentoring program has begun matching mentors with mentees. However, as has been the case in the past, we have quite a few more mentee applicants than available mentors. So I'd like to put out this call for mentors.
Are you a tenure-stream (i.e. tenure-track or tenured) faculty member willing to mentor job-candidates on the market this year who face special challenges? If so, please consider signing up here, and please consider spreading the word to other tenure-stream people you know (e.g. on social media). We really want to help as many candidates in need as we can. But, to do that, we need as much help as can get!
Of course, I understand that many of us are exhausted from the past year of the ongoing pandemic. However, having been a mentor several times myself, I can say that the program is rewarding and not very time consuming. Further, because of the effects of the pandemic on last year's job market, there is sure to be an abnormally large number of job candidates on the market in need of help. So please, if you think you might have the bandwidth to help someone, please do sign up to mentor here!
Currently, we could use mentors with philosophical background in the following areas:
- Aesthetics
- Cognitive science & philosophical psychology
- Early Modern
- Environmental ethics
- Epistemology
- Ethics
- Logic
- Philosophy of economics
- Philosophy of mathematics
- Philosophy of mind
- Philosophy of physics
- Philosophy of science (including history of philosophy of science)
- Political philosophy
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