What (and How) Do You Delegate?

By Ryan Cordell. We’re big on collaboration at ProfHacker. We write about it quite a bit. Many of us come out of the digital humanities, which as a field prizes collaboration as a virtue. But as we all know, however, collaboration is not universally so prized in the academy. In humanities fields, collaborative efforts are often viewed with suspicion—we’ve long operated on the “solitary genius” model, and still sometimes wonder “just what did you do?” when discussing a joint endeavor. In the sciences, of course, group efforts are the norm, though complicated traditions still govern how those efforts are credited in print and in promotion dossiers. Read more...