Kieran Healy at Crooked Timber quotes this self-​description by the soci­ol­o­gist Charles Tilly, who died this morning:

Among Tilly’s neg­a­tive dis­tinc­tions he prizes 1) never having held office in a pro­fes­sional asso­ci­a­tion, 2) never having chaired a uni­ver­sity depart­ment or served as a dean, 3) never having been an asso­ciate pro­fes­sor, 4) rejec­tion every single time he has been screened as a prospec­tive juror. He had also hoped never to pub­lish a book with a sub­ti­tle, but sub­ti­tles some­how slipped into two of his co-​authored books.