Four Reasons to Read the Final NEH Report for Versatile Humanists at Duke
Do you really want to know how the NEH sausage was made? You just might.
Category: Perspectives
What Are Dissertations Made Of? My Summer with Artworks
PhD student Alex Strecker knew he wanted a summer internship in Greece, but didn’t anticipate where else that experience would lead.
Against Overwhelm: Keeping Sight of the Big Picture
The group coaching format provides powerful tools with which to confront the issue of grad student overwhelm.
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?
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.
