{"id":6653,"date":"2016-05-03T07:00:51","date_gmt":"2016-05-03T07:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=6653"},"modified":"2016-05-03T07:00:51","modified_gmt":"2016-05-03T07:00:51","slug":"princeton-academic-publishes-his-alternative-cv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2016\/05\/03\/princeton-academic-publishes-his-alternative-cv\/","title":{"rendered":"Princeton academic publishes his alternative CV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Guardian <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/education\/2016\/apr\/30\/cv-of-failures-princeton-professor-publishes-resume-of-his-career-lows\">reports<\/a> that\u00a0Johannes Haushofer, who is assistant professor of psychology and public affairs at Princeton, has published an alternative\u00a0CV of his career failures up to now. \u00a0Publishing an anti-cv like this might, of course, just result in his adding to the list.<\/p>\n<p>The CV\u00a0contains sections on failures in relation to ...<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>degree programme applications<\/li>\n<li>academic positions and fellowships he applied for<\/li>\n<li>research funding bids<\/li>\n<li>papers sent to academic journal,<\/li>\n<li>his getting awards and scholarships<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>... so it's pretty wide-ranging. \u00a0Haushofer, who said the idea came from an article by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/melaniestefan.net\">Melanie Stefan<\/a>, at Edinburgh, says that\u00a0he created the document to give some perspective:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cMost of what I try fails, but these failures are often invisible, while the successes are visible. \u00a0I have noticed that this sometimes gives others the impression that most things work out for me. \u00a0As a result, they are more likely to attribute their own failures to themselves, rather than the fact that the world is stochastic, applications are crapshoots, and selection committees and referees have bad days.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Indeed they are \/ do.<\/p>\n<p>We could all do this, and also be much less uncritical in our own tiresome,\u00a0gushing self-promotion. \u00a0I was reminded of this tendency to never being knowingly undersold when I read the Pelican history of Tudor England by Professor\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/425071.S_T_Bindoff\">Stanley Bindhoff<\/a> earlier in the year \u2013 I was seeking some historical perspective on the relationship between the UK and the near European continent in the context of <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2015\/07\/29\/what-price-an-educational-brexit-or-should-that-be-brexodus\/\">Brexodus<\/a> and the forthcoming referendum. \u00a0I found the book (which was published in the 1950s) insightful and well written, and I was struck by the author biography on the inside front cover. \u00a0Here's an extract:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\"<em>S. T. Bindhoff has enjoyed a career remarkable chiefly for its uneventfulness. ... \u00a0During the several years which it took him to live down his failure to achieve the expected First Class (degree), he was in turn research assistant, professional indexer, publicity agent, and history tutor to a Crown Prince. \u00a0... He undertook to write the present volume in partnership with his wife, Dr Marjorie Blatcher, who, he maintains, knows far more about the period than he does; but her family pre-occupations limited her role to that of critic.\"<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I think we could all, like Bindhoff and\u00a0Haushofer, write that first sentence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Guardian reports that\u00a0Johannes Haushofer, who is assistant professor of psychology and public affairs at Princeton, has published an alternative\u00a0CV of his career failures up to now. \u00a0Publishing an anti-cv like this might, of course, just result in his adding...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6653\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}