Unraveling Faculty Burnout

"Pope-Ruark introduces burnout as a common experience in academia, offers ways to understand and assess burnout levels, and provides pathways out of burnout. Given the pandemic and the late stage of academic capitalism, this is a timely and significant topic. I really appreciate the vignettes throughout the book and the way they speak to experiences of historically excluded and underrepresented faculty."

"Unraveling Faculty Burnout couldn't have arrived at a more crucial time in higher education. Pope-Ruark's thoughtful and comprehensive book is essential reading not only for current and future members of the faculty but also for all of us in the academy who work with them and care deeply about their well-being."

"In the wake of what has been dubbed The Great Disengagement, a book on how to combat burnout in higher education could not be more timely or more necessary. Thankfully, Rebecca Pope-Ruark is here with a carefully researched, thoughtfully written, and compassionate guide to regaining our vitality and purpose."

"Pope-Ruark captures the essence of burnout in higher education, its root causes and solutions. She accurately diagnoses not only the need for systemic institutional change but also the individual attitudes toward success, failure, and meaning which contribute to this problem. More importantly, she provides a pathway out of the darkness."

"Burnout is endemic in higher ed, but it isn't a problem that we talk about enough. Rebecca Pope-Ruark is making sure that we do. Her engaging and necessary book takes us through her own experiences of burnout and the experiences of others to not only document what a problem burnout is in the academy but to also offer suggestions of how to counter and recover from it. As someone who is currently recovering from burnout (again), Unraveling Faculty Burnout is a book I wish I could have read earlier in my career so that maybe I wouldn't make the same mistakes over and over again. It's a must-read book for those within and adjacent to academia and our institutions because maybe it will convince us to build more humane workplaces. This book gives me hope that this is possible."

"Pope-Ruark captures the essence of burnout in higher education, its root causes and solutions. She accurately diagnoses not only the need for systemic institutional change but also the individual attitudes toward success, failure, and meaning which contribute to this problem. More importantly, she provides a pathway out of the darkness."

"Pope-Ruark upholds the core of academic integrity by inviting besieged academics to ask themselves the humane and anti-capitalist question—'but at what cost?'"