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How To Ask A (Famous) Professor to be Your Dissertation Chair
Today is a Special Request post for Meagan, who wishes to know how to approach a famous and influential scholar in her department to be the chair of her dissertation committee. Ideally, you will have arranged to work with your … Continue reading
Posted in Bad Advisors and Good Mentors, Strategizing Your Success in Academia
Tagged dealing with your advisor, graduate school in the humanities, how to assemble a committee, How to deal with professors, replacing dissertation committee members, the best advisors, women succeeding in graduate school
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Humanities Graduate School: Go? Don’t Go? What’s a Would-Be Ph.D. To Do?
William Pannapacker has published, over the last several years, a number of widely influential pieces in the Chronicle of Higher Education and, this past week, in Slate, criticizing the ethics and economics of graduate programs in the humanities. His most … Continue reading
“So You Want to Get a Ph.D. in the Humanities”
This video makes all other posts on graduate school obsolete. That doesn’t mean I’ll stop posting, though. (Thanks to Leaving Academia blog http://www.leavingacademia.com)
Posted in Alt-University Critique, Quitting--An Excellent Option, Strategizing Your Success in Academia
Tagged advice for grad students in humanities, Don't go to graduate school, grad school humor, graduate school in the humanities, no jobs after graduate school, the folly of graduate school
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