is a series of four podcasts about precarious academic labor that is part of the College Art Association's ongoing podcast initiative. The producer is , a historian of modern art and architecture with over 20 years of experience as a part-time professor/mentor. The project can be found on social media with #CAAConversations and #ContingentTalk.
Following the CAA Conversations model, each episode of Contingent Talk features a wide-ranging discussion between two colleagues about a specific aspect of contingent teaching and postsecondary arts education in the United States today. Everyone who participated in this series has an active, first-hand, and long-term connection to the contingency system either as faculty themselves or as the chair of a department that relies on adjunct teaching staff.
Sarah prefaces each Contingent Talk episode by introducing the participants and briefly highlighting some of their conversation's key themes or concepts.
Contingent Talk Episodes:
Ashley Gardini and Cheyanne Cortez have a candid discussion about participating in today's precarious academic labor market.
Maggie Guggenheimer and Ellen Oh describe how their rich careers in arts administration also eventually led to teaching and how what they’ve done in their non-academic professional work informs their pedagogy.
Sarita K. Heer, PhD and Jason Grunebaum discuss the myriad whys and hows of contingent faculty union organizing.
David Rifkind, PhD and Carmenita Higginbotham, PhD talk about the mission-critical contributions their contingent faculty make and reflect on options they have, as department chairs, to support part-time teaching staff.
Sarah Dreller, a member of av福利社 since 1996, is av福利社’s new Postdoctoral Researcher in the Humanities who is conducting the Mellon-funded study on the status of architectural history education.
David Rifkind has been a member of av福利社 since 2002. He has served as a member of the av福利社 Board of Directors (2016-2019) and on several fellowship and award committees throughout the years.
