Academic Labor: Research and Artistry is a peer-reviewed open-access academic journal launched in 2016 by the Center for the Study of Academic Labor (CSAL) at Colorado State University. ALRA seeks to motivate ongoing research on matters relating to tenure and contingency in the academy. In particular, it serves as a venue for scholars working in areas broadly defined as tenure studies and contingency studies. The editors of ALRA encourage a wide range of contributions, from the statistical to the historic/archival, from the theoretical to the applied, from the researched to the creative, and from empirical to essayist forms. The journal's editors and reviewers include social scientists, artists, and theorists specializing in labor issues.
Please see the call for proposals for the next ALRA special issue.
Current Issue
Volume 9, 2025
Editors' Introduction: Shaping Academic Futures
Bruce Kovanen and Sue Doe
DOI: https://doi.org/10.37514/ALR-J.2025.9.1.01
Articles
Exploring the Impact of Online Education on Labor Practices in Higher Education
Ann Marie Francis
DOI: https://doi.org/10.37514/ALR-J.2025.9.1.02
Staffing the Writing Circle: Inclusive Staff and Faculty Writing Circles as Sites of Resistance within the Neoliberal Academy
Christine Sharp, Beatriz Ramirez, and Nicole Kenley
DOI: https://doi.org/10.37514/ALR-J.2025.9.1.03
Contingency and Care: Reimagining Graduate Student Labor Through Writing Center Work
Sarah Ceja, Beatriz Ramirez, and Christine Sharp
DOI: https://doi.org/10.37514/ALR-J.2025.9.1.04
AI and Graduate Teaching Labor: Reshaping Workload, Autonomy, and Institutional Power
Suman Dey
DOI: https://doi.org/10.37514/ALR-J.2025.9.1.05
An Issue of Citational Politics: Elevating the Academic Labor in Community-Engaged Projects
Maria Novotny
DOI: https://doi.org/10.37514/ALR-J.2025.9.1.06
The Impact of USAID Suspension on Stakeholders: The Case of Egypt
Ghada Al-Akhdar, Laila ElSerty, Aliaa N. Hamad, and Joseph Robertshaw
DOI: https://doi.org/10.37514/ALR-J.2025.9.1.07
Organizing in East Texas: Graduate Student Organizing in an Anti-Union State
Brian McShane and Rachel McShane
DOI: https://doi.org/10.37514/ALR-J.2025.9.1.08
Report
Union Vibes
Jack Christian
DOI: https://doi.org/10.37514/ALR-J.2025.9.1.09
Script
Adjunkt: A Play with No Acts
Joel Smith
DOI: https://doi.org/10.37514/ALR-J.2025.9.1.10
Academic Labor: Research and Artistry is published by the Center for the Study of Academic Labor at Colorado State University. Copyright © is held by the authors and editors of the publications in the journal. Works in the journal are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 United States License. ISSN 2380-2081.