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How To Ask A (Famous) Professor to be Your Dissertation Chair

By Karen Kelsky | August 29, 2011

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 famous dissertation … [Read more...] about How To Ask A (Famous) Professor to be Your Dissertation Chair

Filed Under: Bad Advisors and Good Mentors, Strategizing Your Success in Academia Tagged With: 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

Humanities Graduate School: Go? Don’t Go? What’s a Would-Be Ph.D. To Do?

By Karen Kelsky | August 1, 2011

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 … [Read more...] about Humanities Graduate School: Go? Don’t Go? What’s a Would-Be Ph.D. To Do?

Filed Under: Alt-University Critique, Quitting--An Excellent Option, Strategizing Your Success in Academia Tagged With: A response to pannapacker, graduate school in the humanities, Is graduate school a good choice, Jsench response, Just don't go, William Pannapacker

“So You Want to Get a Ph.D. in the Humanities”

By Karen Kelsky | July 12, 2011

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) … [Read more...] about “So You Want to Get a Ph.D. in the Humanities”

Filed Under: Alt-University Critique, Quitting--An Excellent Option, Strategizing Your Success in Academia Tagged With: 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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