We hope you enjoyed Volume 1, Issue 1 of Academic Labor: Research and Artistry (ALRA), a peer-reviewed open access academic journal launched in 2016 by the Center for the Study of Academic Labor (CSAL) at Colorado State University. The journal encourages ongoing research on matters relating to tenure and contingency in the academy, both nationally and internationally. Along with our center and web site, we offer a research home for those undertaking scholarship in areas broadly defined as tenure studies and contingency studies. To meet this objective, we invite a wide range of contributions, from the statistical to the historic/archival, from the theoretical to the applied, from the researched to the creative, and from empirical to essayist forms. Our editors and reviewers include social scientists, artists, and theorists specializing in labor issues.
Our second issue will focus on discussions of “the slow professor” and “surviving academe”—and efforts by academics to (re)gain control of their professional and personal lives. We see this issue offering solidarity with other workers who are seeking a workplace that demands less than the proverbial pound of flesh—i.e., a workplace that respects one’s boundaries and one’s dignity. This issue will focus on how faculty, staff, and students persist under current academic conditions. Send us your manuscripts! We hope this issue will generate responses and will fuel a conversation that will take us forward.