KittyCat_PhD

As for the grades, I think it depends on whether the professors remember you well enough to write a recommendation based on your other traits besides your grade. Are you at an undergrad at a big school with classes of over 100 students? If so, I'd ask professors of classes where you got an A, because they won't likely remember you and will only have your grade as reference. Or were they smaller classes where you interacted with the professor more directly? If that's the case, I think a B is fine, as long as you demonstrated good character by coming to class, asking good questions, trying your best, etc.

What is wrong with people that they can't respect each other's time? Me and my housemate have been searching for a third housemate, and had multiple people have scheduled times to see the house only to not show up or cancel. The worst was this one dude, who failed to show up, and when I texted him to ask if he was still coming he said something came up and he couldn't come tonight. So I suggested tomorrow, and he said yes. The next day he again fails to show up, I ask "Are you still coming?" and he asks me to send him pictures of the house. Even though the pictures were on the ad. So I do extra work to take more pictures, send them, no response. Then, last night (almost a week later), at 8:30pm, he has the gall to ask if tonight is a good night. At this point I decided to give him a taste of his own medicine and not respond. Then today he texts, "Good morning." ... REALLY? You make us wait for nothing twice in a row, then pretend to be polite? I'm sorry, but actions speak louder than words. I told him we had found someone else (which is partially true but not confirmed). The worst part is, it seems like this started happening more often when I took a turn posting the room ad in my name after my (male) housemate did it for awhile. Just goes to show, people seem to think a woman's time is worth less than a man's.

As a white person, I don't have any immediate input on whether you should switch topics. But if you do stay with this topic, maybe you could see if there's a way for any of the people you study to make bigger contributions that would merit co-author status, on papers, posters, etc. Depending on the standards of your field, lack of education might not even be an issue, as long as they're giving valuable and significant input. If the higher-ups frown on this, then that shows a blatant disrespect for the culture they claim to be interested in, so IMO you'd be justified in making an official protest. If this goes nowhere, or you don't feel comfortable starting this confrontation, then maybe it's time to switch topics.

For me, the most common stuttering trigger is words with pronunciations that I'm not used to doing. Mostly words in other languages with sounds that don't exist in English, especially if I'm saying non-English words mixed with English words. Even if I know how to make the sound, I feel friction as my brain needs to enter a completely different space to say it. I've also stuttered when speaking English, but it's been long enough that I can't remember exactly what triggers it.

While I don't know much about faculty hiring processes, I would think that the purpose of a writing sample would be to showcase your writing skills and knowledge of a topic, whereas publications would be a separate consideration. Since the topic of your dissertation chapter is a better fit for the position, I would go with that. Then, see if there's another space in the application to draw attention to your journal article (in addition to the CV). Highlighting the relevance of your dissertation is especially important given that you're ABD and (therefore I'm assuming) don't have postdoc experience. In science, at least in the USA, it's pretty difficult to get hired for a research faculty position without years of postdoc-ing, and I would guess the same to be true in the humanities. This doesn't mean you shouldn't apply; go for it! But since experience isn't your main selling point, that makes it especially important to really sell them on the relevance of your work. Good luck!

I am a postdoc, working with the same advisor I had for my PhD. I've had a mostly good relationship with my advisor, despite some personality differences--for example, he's more inclined to disregard rules. So far it's been mostly little things. But now something has come up where I feel I need to draw a line. There's this conference he suggested I attend. It's more of a networking conference than an academic conference, but entrance is free for students who apply to present a scientific poster. He wants me to lie and say I'm a student, so that I can get free entry. But even if they believe it well enough to let me into the conference, I would be networking, which inevitably means telling people that I'm a postdoc. And then one of the organizers might find out about the lie, and guess who would take the blame: me. Not a good start for someone trying to network to find my next job. Has anyone else experienced something like this? How can I talk to him about it? Knowing him, he's likely to dismiss my concerns as "nothing to worry about" and tell me I'm too uptight.