Queer people of color face unique challenges in job negotiations, including feelings that they must perform gratitude for having been invited to join the academic "grown-ups table" at all and fears that if they ask for "too much" they may be racistly read by white administrators as aggressive or as "troublemakers." Yet a first year salary and "start up package" affects earnings for one's entire career, meaning a bad negotiation can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars over a span of decades. This presentation by professor and department chair Gregory Mitchell (Princeton University & Williams College) provides an overview of current starting salaries at different types of institutions and the kinds of unmentioned benefits you can typically negotiate at each if you know how to ask for them.

Gregory Mitchell is ACLS Burkhardt Fellow in Gender & Sexuality Studies at Princeton University. He is also Chair and Associate Professor at Williams College in Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies.

This event is free and open to the public, but requires RSVP. Please email the organizers to RSVP.

This seminar series is cosponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center, the Center for Black, Brown, and Queer Studies, and the Committee on Degrees in Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality.