Graduate school is an important and confusing time, filled with many questions about the process and decisions that students must make. From Orientation to the Tenure-Track: The Grad Student Guidebook offers an overview of this experience, featuring expert advice on the many different steps and challenges that students encounter in their time as master's and doctoral students. Written in a conversational style, the chapters integrate advice, encouragement, and anecdotes to address specific components of the graduate school process.

About the Author
Katherine A. Foss is a professor of Media Studies in the School of Journalism & Strategic Media at Middle Tennessee University. She is the head of the AEJMC Council of Divisions. Foss previously edited Beyond Princess Culture: Gender and Children's Marketing (2019) and Demystifying the Big House: Exploring Prison Experience and Media Representations (2018). She is also the author of Constructing the Outbreak: Epidemics in Media and Collective Memory (2020), Breastfeeding and Media: Exploring Conflicting Discourses That Threaten Public Health (2017), and Television and Health Responsibility in an Age of Individualism (2014).


Book Information
ISBN 9781538141304
Author The AEJMC Board of Directors
Format Paperback
Page Count 168
Imprint Rowman & Littlefield
Publisher Rowman & Littlefield
Weight(grams) 277g
Dimensions(mm) 218mm * 153mm * 11mm