Women's Studies Program
Faculty Mentoring

The Women's Studies Program has university wide mentoring opportunities for untenured faculty engaged in gender-related teaching and/or research. This provides a way for junior faculty to make connections with senior faculty outside of their departments, who have no evaluative role to play but can simply help by offering advice or be a sounding board.

Topics of discussion might include:
merit reviews and Promotion and Tenure requirements
Service expectations
Research issues
Departmental politics
Sexism, racism, homophobia, and disability-related discrimination from students and colleagues
Teaching gender related content

We have a list of tenured faculty in Women's Studies who are willing to meet with a junior faculty member once a month.  Junior faculty can consult the list below, and might want to go to the department web pages to obtain more information about each person's particular history and interests.

Junior faculty can approach anyone from this list directly to set up an initial get-together, and check to see if that person already has too many other mentoring responsibilities. Any ongoing mentoring should be mutually agreed upon by both parties.

Alternatively, the Women's Studies Program can help you connect with a mentor; just call or email the Director, Linda Martín-Alcoff at 443-0283 or lsalcoff@syr.edu