Career Diversity is Not Plan B: Thoughts from a PhD Candidate on the Nonfaculty Job Market
Not every humanities PhD candidate aspires to be a tenure-track professor. What’s the way forward for these students?
Category: Perspectives
What Are You Waiting For?
Are there things you’re not letting yourself do or have until you finish the PhD?
The Big Picture Faculty Job Search
The big picture job application is less about writing to rules or processes and more about writing towards a desired outcome.
Enough Advice, Already
This fall marks three years since I first started advising doctoral students at Duke. What have I learned?
Let’s Talk about Money
We don’t talk about salary enough when discussing post-graduate school careers. Here are a few things to consider.
Navigating Professional Uncertainty
How do you deal with the psychological toll of constant waiting and worrying over how “things will turn out”?
Teaching as Public Scholarship
The History Department is revamping its pedagogy training for Ph.D. students around the idea that teaching is translation.
Why Taking the Plunge “Early” Into the Academic Job Market is Worthwhile
Thoughts on the 2018 VH@Duke Academic Job Search Summer Advising Group.
Four Principles to Building a Professional Network
Takeaways from a recent conversation about conversation at the Humanities Unbounded Microworlds Lab.
Follow Your Energy
Feeling overwhelmed by All The Things you can (or should) do as a graduate student? Some field-tested advice for when decision fatigue sets in.