The Second Shift as Epistemological Bonus

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Research Article| January 11 2021 The Second Shift as Epistemological Bonus Devika Chawla Devika Chawla Devika Chawla is a professor in the School of Communication Studies at Ohio University. She teaches and writes on matters of migration, affect, material culture, and family life. She has published multiple essays and books including Home, Uprooted: Oral Histories of India’s Partition (Fordham University Press, 2014). She is the editor-in-chief of the University of California Press journal Departures in Critical Qualitative Research. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Journal of Autoethnography (2021) 2 (1): 128–135. https://doi.org/10.1525/joae.2021.2.1.128 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Devika Chawla; The Second Shift as Epistemological Bonus. Journal of Autoethnography 11 January 2021; 2 (1): 128–135. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/joae.2021.2.1.128 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentJournal of Autoethnography Search In 2004, when I first entered the ranks of tenure-track faculty, I knew there were three tasks that I was expected to perform as a central part of my job: teaching, research, and service. To be clear, this is the expectation of work from tenure-track faculty—only the percentage of time spent on each area differs across institutions. Since I was hired into a PhD granting program, I was fully aware that publishing was critical to my tenure and promotion. As many of us do, I began the process of translating my dissertation work into essays and articles with the penultimate goal of returning to my field and conducting more fieldwork for a book (that I did not write). My dissertation explored, via life history interviews and ethnographic fieldwork, the identity experiences of women in urban Hindu arranged marriages. My publishing goal was to parcel it out in articles to various... You do not currently have access to this content.