*Call For Papers:  Contingent Academic Labor Matters*
***Deadline extended to April 9***

*Session Organizers:  Tara Hefferan (Grand Valley State University) and
Rayna Rapp (New York University)*

*Discussant:  Ellen Lewin (U Iowa)*

*For the AAA Annual Meeting “Anthropology Matters” in Washington DC, Nov.
29-Dec. 3, 2017*

*This panel explores the interplay between notions of self, professional
identity, and institutional status among anthropologists working long-term
as “temporary” or “contingent” instructors.  The American Association of
University Professors finds that over 70 percent of all higher education
instruction in the US now is done by contingent faculty (AAUP 2017).  The
AAA’s “Faculty Members, Tenure and Precarity” report suggests that while
there are significant differences in appointment types across many
different kinds of institutions, in general being non-tenure track results
in disparities in pay, workload, access to office space and the like
relative to tenure-line appointments (Ginsberg 2016).  Recognizing the
long-term trend toward non-tenure track appointments, the American
Anthropological Association proposed a resolution in favor equitable
compensation, job security, participation in faculty governance—among
others—for contingent faculty (AAA 2014).*

*The goal of this panel is to examine how these shifts in academic labor
are experienced and made meaningful by those who live and labor as
“contingents.” For anthropologists who exist in this ambiguous status for
the long-term, what does it mean?  How does contingency impact views of
self?  Professional identity?  Notions of “work?”*

*Possible themes that papers might address:*

*·      How does contingency structure the daily patterns of work within
departments?  How is work reimagined through the lens of contingency?*

*·      Why do anthropologists “agree” to participate in long-term
contingent work?  What are the costs/benefits and how are these negotiated
as part of the contingent experience?*

*·      Beyond contract length and access to institutional resources, what
else distinguishes full-time non-tenure track appointments from tenure-line
appointments?  What stories do universities, departments, and
anthropologists tell to justify non-tenure track positions?*

*·      Given the broader political and economic constraints impacting
higher education, how might academic departments be reimagined?  What
possibilities exist for creating more equitable departments and
universities?*

*·      How does the experience of contingency affect notions of what it
means to be an anthropologist or to “do” anthropology?*

*Instructions:*
*Submit a 250 word abstract detailing the essential points and
contributions of the proposed paper.  Please include the title of the
paper, author’s name, affiliation, and address, including email and
telephone numbers.  The deadline for consideration is Sunday, April 9,
2017.*

*Please send your abstract to:*
*Tara Hefferan*
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*Works Cited*
*AAA.  2014.  “Know Before You Vote:  Resolution on Contingent and
Part-Time Academic Labor.”  *
*https://blog.americananthro.org/2014/03/17/know-before-you-vote-resolution-on-contingent-and-part-time-academic-labor/*
<https://blog.americananthro.org/2014/03/17/know-before-you-vote-resolution-on-contingent-and-part-time-academic-labor/>

*AAUP.  2017.  “Background Facts on Contingent Faculty.”  *
*https://www.aaup.org/issues/contingency/background-facts*
<https://www.aaup.org/issues/contingency/background-facts>

*Barnshaw, John.  2015.  “Status of Academic Labor Force, 2013.”  American
Association of University Professors.  *
*https://www.aaup.org/sites/default/files/Status-2013.pdf*
<https://www.aaup.org/sites/default/files/Status-2013.pdf>

*Ginsberg, Daniel.  2016.  ““Faculty Members, Tenure and Precarity”
American Anthropological Association.  *
*http://s3.amazonaws.com/rdcms-aaa/files/production/public/FileDownloads/pdfs/MemberSurvey2016_Report3.pdf*
<http://s3.amazonaws.com/rdcms-aaa/files/production/public/FileDownloads/pdfs/MemberSurvey2016_Report3.pdf>

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