Assembling Your Search Party (Part I): Academic Jobs
Which texts (beyond The Professor Is In) and people should you consult when you are preparing your academic job search materials?
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Assembling Your Search Party (Part I): Academic Jobs
Learning the Art of Storytelling through Exhibit Curation
Working on an exhibit about Durham in World War I helped one VH@Duke intern hone her skills for disseminating history to a broader audience.
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False Starts, Real Stories, and New Possibilities
A Ph.D. candidate in Romance Studies shares what he encountered during his Versatile Humanists at Duke Internship in Bologna.
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Crafting an Academic Elevator Speech
In which we discuss sausage, spaghetti, and (most importantly) how to articulate your emerging scholarly identity.
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Infusing Archival Research into the Undergraduate Classroom: What, How and Why
A recent Duke musicology Ph.D. shares insights from a Summer Doctoral Academy workshop on teaching with archival material.
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Surviving the Conference Mixer: No Bull about It
Does the thought of networking at the next academic conference give you sweaty palms? Here are 8 tips that might help.
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Navigating “Postdoc Purgatory” (and Helping to Save the Humanities)
Scott Muir (Ph.D. '18 Religion) reflects on the rewards and challenges of an unexpected postdoctoral stint as a researcher for the National Humanities Alliance.
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Duke Humanities Ph.D. Alumni, beyond the Academy
What do Duke humanities Ph.D.s who don’t pursue academic jobs end up doing? Who are they and can I speak with some?
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Graduate School: the First Semester
Now that orientation week is over, what should PhD students in the humanities prioritize between now and December?
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Start at Your Core: A Note to New Humanities Ph.D. Students
Before you get engrossed in your doctoral pursuits, take stock of why you are doing this and what really matters to you.
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