The irony is, of course, that tenure is supposed to be a system of promoting radical ideas — the sorts of things that might make people mad. But there's every indication that it just creates a power structure that preserves and maintains the status quo.
(One of the reasons I am where I am is I felt, I think correctly, that most history departments wouldn't tolerate a junior scholar doing unconventional and public-facing work. There are few places that actual enable and encourage junior scholars to do risky things IMO.)
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Yes. Yes. A thousand times yes to all of this. In graduate school work that is significantly public engagement and not “standard” academic outlets is hugely devalued IME relative to more traditional products.
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It is explicitly devalued on things like faculty activity reports and re-appointment/tenure forms. You either have to put it under categories it probably doesn't belong, or in some ugly OTHER STUFF category at the end.
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