Interdisciplinary

I am firmly planted between multiple fields, as my pseudonym might suggest. I don't really have an opinion about whether this is good or bad. I got into this research before I really knew exactly what different disciplines did, so I didn't realize when I started that it didn't neatly fit anywhere. My undergrad major was interdisciplinary too (in a different way), so I guess it makes sense.

My work isn't radically interdisciplinary, like Am I a Woman Scientist? discussed a couple of months ago. Rather, if I wanted to be a professor, I'm not sure which kind of department would want me. It most certainly would depend on the individual department, since not all departments with the same title do the same work. Indeed, people who do work similar to mine are in a wide array of departments, even falling into different colleges of universities.

In one sense, I have more options. In another, it adds to the impostor complex because I'm not so familiar with the fundamentals of the traditional disciplines. I noticed that I am included in a Geoblogosphere blogroll and thought Whoa, I should tell them I'm not a geologist! But whatever. I'm not really anything else either.