Carolyn Trietsch recently defended her Ph.D. in entomology at Penn State. You can view her website or follow her on Twitter @carolyntrietsch. I just finished my Ph.D. and, over the last few months, ...

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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.

When I served as the founding vice dean of George Mason University’s School of Public Policy, now the Schar School of Policy and Government, my portfolio could best be described as everything the dean ...

The dissertation proposal and the specialty exam serve different purposes and should be viewed as separate activities, even though often executed concurrently. The dissertation proposal marks the ...

It’s rare to find a doctoral student who hasn’t struggled with their dissertation writing, right? We know this firsthand from our own experiences, which is why we thought about ways to help students ...

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The dissertation proposal and the specialty exam serve different purposes and should be viewed as separate activities, even though often executed concurrently. The dissertation proposal marks the ...