WebinAAR | From TA to Professor: Tools for Early Career Scholars in the Classroom

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For many early career scholars, the transition to full-time teaching often involves seriously confronting questions regarding syllabus design, assignment structure, classroom pedagogy, and student mentorship for the first time. This webinAAR will highlight the tools and resources that can aid in that transition.

Panelists will discuss how graduate programs may better prepare doctoral students for the responsibilities of teaching beyond the TA experience, as well as offer suggestions for where early career scholars might find additional resources beyond their graduate training.

This is another in a series of Academic Relations Committee (ARC) remote sessions that are offered each month; all these meetings tackle topics of direct relevance to the success of a department and each session is recorded and posted on the committee’s page at the AAR site.

Speaker Bios

Lucia Hulsether | Hulsether is an assistant professor of religion at Skidmore College as well as a senior fellow in Race and Ethnicity in America at Brown University. Her first book, Capitalist Humanitarianism, offers an ethnography of labor and religion in late capitalism and was published with Duke University Press in 2023.

Shaunesse’ Jacobs Plaisimond | Plaisimond is an assistant professor in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of South Florida. Her work examines how fields including feminist theology, bioethics, and human rights law can help inform healthcare decision-making, especially around pregnancy and childbirth.

Eric Stephen | Stephen is an assistant professor in the School of Interdisciplinary Global Studies at the University of South Florida. His work focuses on the intersections of religion and law in the United States, exploring how the concept of “religious liberty” has been defined, contested, and enacted over US history.