This past July I successfully defended my dissertation to a room full of family, friends, colleagues, and my committee. It went by in a blur. The projector failed right as I was supposed to start, and ...

For many early career scholars in the humanities and social sciences, it’s just a given: You turn your dissertation into a book. Not only that, but you begin doing so the moment you complete the Ph.D.

In March, mid-lockdown, I needed to write the introduction to my PhD thesis. I went at it with all guns blazing. I downloaded Mendeley, a reference-management program, to arrange my papers in a more ...

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Daniel Knorr is a PhD Candidate in the Department of History at the University of Chicago. This fall, he is teaching a course on pre-modern Chinese history at the University of Illinois at Chicago as ...

, 58, won honorable mention in the 2007 Community Literary Awards competition, sponsored by the Kalamazoo Gazette, Kalamazoo Public Library, Portage District Library and area independent book sellers.

I'm hunkering down and starting a literature search for my dissertation. There's a couple questions going around in my head, that I figured some of ya'll might have first hand experience with. I'm in ...

Evguenia Alechine is a freelance science-communications specialist, and programme leader of the Medical Writing Organization, part of the Cheeky Scientist Association. Like many PhD students, I found ...