golden opportunity to get to know senior researchers in your area, and to
get them to hear about your work.
3
By that token, you may be tempted to think of putting together a special
issue of a journal. I would strongly caution anyone—especially junior
faculty—against doing so, as there is little to no reward to be derived from
it. In most cases, not only will the senior scholars who respond favorably to
a call for or solicitation of papers for a special issue not submit their best
work to that special issue, but your interactions with them will also often be
of a purely virtual nature. Worse, deadlines are often soft for such special
issues and people treat them as such, and as a junior scholar, you effectively
have little to no coercive power over senior scholars who are ultimately
doing you a favor by contributing to your special issue.
Everything I have said in the previous paragraph is multiplied tenfold for
edited volumes.
4
As your place in the profession becomes more secure once you get
tenure, the scope for service increases, and once you get promoted to full
professor, the sky is the limit. There are many ways to contribute to an
institution’s mission and service, though not as outward-facing as teaching
and research, can certainly be very gratifying.
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