Building Frameworks for Inclusivity and Career Diversity in Program Units

How can scholars working and thriving in the full range of non-tenure track roles be incorporated and supported in the AAR/SBL? This is an increasingly pressing question, as graduates of religion and biblical studies programs are thriving across a wide range of careers. This session brings together AAR/SBL program chairs to discuss ways in which their work as program chairs and in their own departments has facilitated engagement with all scholars. This session will follow the lighting/roundtable format. Following an initial introduction where panelists share the interventions and status of “non-tenure/alt-ac” career pathways in their respective fields, participants will break into roundtables to map out changes that can be made in their program units, institutions, and fields(or maybe fields).