Versatile Humanists at Duke

February 17, 2020

Team-Teaching the Humanities at a Community College

By: Maria LaMonaca Wisdom

The opportunity to team-teach with a Durham Tech faculty member provided doctoral student Maggie McDowell with unusually rich and multifaceted pedagogical training.

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January 27, 2020

Navigating Hierarchical Relationships in Graduate School

By: Maria LaMonaca Wisdom

Not sure how to ask your advisor for something you need? Some tips on managing up and showing up.

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January 13, 2020

Reflections on My Summer Internship at UNC Press

By: Maria LaMonaca Wisdom

History PhD student Siobhan Barco reflects on how a self-designed summer internship with UNC Press broadened both her academic and professional horizons.

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December 13, 2019

Four Reasons to Read the Final NEH Report for Versatile Humanists at Duke

By: Maria LaMonaca Wisdom

Do you really want to know how the NEH sausage was made? You just might.

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November 12, 2019

Eating, Moving, Resting: Elements of Self-Care

By: Maria LaMonaca Wisdom

Sustained, deep intellectual work can be rough on your body and spirit. A few ideas to counteract "brain in a bottle" syndrome.

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October 28, 2019

What Are Dissertations Made Of? My Summer with Artworks

By: Maria LaMonaca Wisdom

PhD student Alex Strecker knew he wanted a summer internship in Greece, but didn't anticipate where else that experience would lead.

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October 15, 2019

Against Overwhelm: Keeping Sight of the Big Picture

By: Maria LaMonaca Wisdom

The group coaching format provides powerful tools with which to confront the issue of grad student overwhelm.

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September 30, 2019

Career Diversity is Not Plan B: Thoughts from a PhD Candidate on the Nonfaculty Job Market

By: Maria LaMonaca Wisdom

Not every humanities PhD candidate aspires to be a tenure-track professor. What's the way forward for these students?

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September 16, 2019

What Are You Waiting For?

By: Maria LaMonaca Wisdom

Are there things you're not letting yourself do or have until you finish the PhD?

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August 16, 2019

The Big Picture Faculty Job Search

By: Sarah Dwyer

The big picture job application is less about writing to rules or processes and more about writing towards a desired outcome.

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