Dispatches from Graduate School – Part 39
Cali Pitchel McCullough is a Ph.D student in American history at Arizona State University. For earlier posts in this series click here. –JF [Reposted by permission of John Fea's The Way of Improvement...
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[Republished by permission of The Way of Improvement Leads Home.] Cali Pitchel McCullough is a Ph.D student in American history at Arizona State University. For earlier posts in this series click...
View ArticleGuest Post: Mary Sanders on the Rocky Mountain Interdisciplinary History...
Mary Sanders is a third-year PhD student in history at Oklahoma State University, where she’s focusing in twentieth-century American religious history. She has an MA in history from the University of...
View ArticleSpring 2013 – Status
Friends, colleagues, and fellow Christian historians, Hopefully your semesters are off to a rousing start. I hoped that we could communicate a bit more extensively about our respective programs. One...
View ArticleSo you want to go to grad school? Five things advisers won’t tell you but you...
When students get the idea to go to graduate school, they immediately put their undergraduate advisor in a difficult position. The professor can encourage you to press on, apply, and go for your...
View ArticleAdvice for Surviving Graduate School
While I’m not completely finished with graduate school, I am on the “downhill” side of doctoral coursework and comprehensive exams, so I thought I’d provide some thoughts on surviving graduate school...
View ArticleFinding Conferences – H-Net is Key!
At this point in our careers most grad students have something worth sharing with the larger academy. You have a seminar paper that “ain’t so bad” and you’re ready to share it with the world. Okay,...
View ArticleWhen will you be done? And other questions grad students can’t handle.
This is not a post for graduate students. This is a post for everyone who loves a graduate student. Here are some things we hate to hear and a few reasons why. If you are a grad student and can’t...
View ArticleThe Pages Were Red With Ink: On Feedback
You’ve always been an all-star student. In third grade, your teachers talked about you in the teacher’s lounge, “She used a word I had to look up. I don’t even know what vacillate means and she used...
View ArticleSigning Off: Greg Jones Bids Farewell
Friends and Colleagues: After three years of service as the grad rep for the Conference on Faith and History, today marks my final work in the position. I’m passing the torch to Mary Sanders, an...
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