{"pk":42143,"title":"Challenges and Opportunities for Non-Tenure-Track Faculty during the Time of COVID-19","subtitle":null,"abstract":"In Spring 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic forced university instructors across the United States to confront the daunting task of quickly changing their courses from face-to-face to remote instruction. Nationally, universities relied on virtual platforms as they adjusted educational spaces in response to the pandemic. While there have been many anecdotes of how individual faculty responded to this transition, social scientists have yet to study systematically how instructors handled this transition. This article presents and analyzes data from semi-structured interviews with non-tenure-track social science faculty to understand how they handled the change to remote teaching after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. It analyzes these interviews by drawing on intersecting perspectives from the anthropology of disaster, anthropology of education, and digital anthropology. We argue the transition to online teaching presented new challenges and opportunities to instructors as people coping with novel health concerns, family obligations, and space-time changes. Simultaneously, this change created pedagogical issues related to continuity of instruction, classroom presence, and emotional labor. We conclude with recommendations and directions for future research.","language":"en","license":{"name":"Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial  4.0","short_name":"CC BY-NC 4.0","text":"Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\n\nNonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.\n\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0"},"keywords":[{"word":"Digital Anthropology"},{"word":"Anthropology of Disaster"},{"word":"Educational Studies"},{"word":"University Instructors"}],"section":"Articles","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3gj8s1f6","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Kiran","middle_name":"","last_name":"Jayaram","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of South Florida","department":"None"},{"first_name":"Matthew","middle_name":"","last_name":"Pajunen","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of South Florida","department":"None"},{"first_name":"Chad","middle_name":"","last_name":"Garcia","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of South Florida","department":"None"},{"first_name":"Neudy","middle_name":"Carolina","last_name":"Nuñez","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of South Florida","department":"None"},{"first_name":"Jae-Anne","middle_name":"","last_name":"Smith","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of South Florida","department":"None"}],"date_submitted":"2021-02-01T06:25:36+05:30","date_accepted":"2021-02-01T06:25:36+05:30","date_published":"2021-07-21T12:30:00+05:30","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/teachinglearninganthro/article/42143/galley/31467/download/"}]}