For the third time in the past decade, a Brandeis doctoral dissertation has been judged the best in the nation by The Society of American Historians. Noelani Arista, an Irving and Rose Crown Fellow ...

Since 2013, I’ve been teaching a two-week interdisciplinary dissertation workshop in early summer at the University of Cincinnati. Under normal conditions, the students and I meet for five hours each ...

On March 14, Assistant Director of Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) Mandy Olejnik successfully defended her doctoral dissertation, “Writing Across the (Graduate) Curriculum: Toward Systemic Change ...

Graduate school, especially in the humanities, perpetuates the myth of the solitary genius. Laboring over your dissertation, you become the great writer scratching out a manuscript in a musty garret ...

A doctoral dissertation must consist of peer-reviewed scholarly publications or manuscripts accepted for publication, as well as a summarising report on the said documents (an article-based ...

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An innovative peer support group method funded by the Faculty of Arts & Science is helping doctoral students grapple with the isolation and anxiety of writing their dissertations. About 50 students ...

Blogging and academic writing are often perceived as water and oil: They just don’t go together. At least that’s the perception I have encountered since I started pursuing my Ph.D. and writing blog ...

China’s radical new doctoral model allows engineering students to earn a PhD through functional prototypes rather than ...