An examination of the challenges of raising a family and balancing work and personal commitments for men in academia. The contributors come from a variety of backgrounds and disciplines: they are white, black, south Asian, Asian, and Arab; gay and straight, married and divorced; tenured and untenured; some at the beginning of their careers, others at the end.
It is not easy raising a family and balancing work and personal commitments in academia, regardless of gender. The diverse contributors in Papa, PhD seek to expand their children's horizons, giving them the gifts of better topic sentences and a cosmopolitan sensibility. They consider the implications of gender theory and queer theory-even Marxist theory-and make relevant theoretical connections between their work and the less abstract, more pragmatic, world of fathering. What resonates is the astonishing range of forms that fatherhood can take as these dads challenge traditional norms by actively questioning the status quo.
