Behind the Academic Curtain
How to Find Success and Happiness with a PhD
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS (2013)
More people than ever are going to graduate school to seek a PhD these days. When they get there, they discover a bewildering environment: a rapid immersion in their discipline, a keen competition for resources, and uncertain options for their future, whether inside or outside of academia. Life with a PhD can begin to resemble an unsolvable maze. In Behind the Academic Curtain, Frank F. Furstenberg offers a clear and user-friendly map to this maze. Drawing on decades of experience in academia, he provides a comprehensive, empirically grounded, and, most important of all, practical guide to academic life.
Frank F. Furstenberg, Jr. is the Zellerbach Family Professor of Sociology, Emeritus, and Research Associate in the Population Studies Center at the University of Pennsylvania. His interest in the American family began at Columbia University where he received his Ph.D. in 1967. His most recent book is Behind the Academic Curtain: How to Find Success and Happiness with a PhD (2013). His previous books and articles center on children, youth, families, and the public. His current research projects focus on the family in the context of disadvantaged urban neighborhoods, adolescent sexual behavior, cross national research on children's well-being, and urban education. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Institute of Medicine, and the American Academy of Political and Social Science.
Frank F. Furstenberg, Jr.
University of Pennsylvania
Department of Sociology
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Email: fff@ssc.upenn.edu