Graduate Student Guidebook

Katherine A. Foss is a professor of Media Studies in the School of Journalism & Strategic Media at Middle Tennessee University. She is the head of the AEJMC Council of Divisions. Foss previously edited Beyond Princess Culture: Gender and Children’s Marketing (2019) and Demystifying the Big House: Exploring Prison Experience and Media Representations (2018). She is also the author of Constructing the Outbreak: Epidemics in Media and Collective Memory (2020), Breastfeeding and Media: Exploring Conflicting Discourses That Threaten Public Health (2017), and Television and Health Responsibility in an Age of Individualism (2014).

• Introduction: On Being a Grad Student, Katherine A. Foss1 Climbing the Next Rung: Making the Transition to Graduate Student, James Stewart2 “This Is Kind of Like Your Superpower”: Double-Consciousness,Micro-Activism and Other Survival Strategies of Students on the Margins, Meredith D. Clark3 Graduate Student Decisions, Susan Keith4 Getting the Most Out of Your Graduate Assistantship, Amanda Sturgill5 The Mindful Thesis or Dissertation: Finding the Focus to Write, Jan Lauren Boyles6 Making Sense of (and Making the Most of) Academic Conferences, Jennifer Greer7 Publishing as a Graduate Student, Denise Sevick Bortree and Richard D. Waters8 Navigating the Job Market: Basic Mechanics and Peculiarities, David D. Perlmutter9 The Degree and the Job Are Yours. What’s Next? Successfully Transitioning from Student to Professor, Marie HardinGlossary of Academic Terms