(Free Pre-Conference Session) Contingency, Gender, and the Changing Landscape of Higher Education

Hosted by the Academic Labor and Contingent Faculty Committee and Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion

This webinar builds on the informational session the committee organized last year on shifts in higher education labor, but this time with a more focused frame: gendered precarity, institutional nonresponse to faculty excellence, and the gap between the actual composition of the faculty workforce and the structures that govern it. To give a sense of direction for the roundtable, here are some possible guiding questions:

• What does contingency currently look like in practical terms across institutions and fields?
• How are gender, caregiving, and livelihood insecurity shaping contingent faculty experience?
• What happens when contingent faculty achieve visible excellence, such as major fellowships or book contracts, but institutions fail to respond appropriately?
• What kinds of institutional responses are most notably absent?
• What can scholarly societies and committees realistically do?

Minjung Noh, presiding

Panelists

Patrick Reyes, Auburn Theology Seminary
Mónica Rey, Boston University

This is a free pre-conference session that will occur during the Online June Annual Meeting. You do not have to register for the online conference to attend.