A Tip of the Cap
Doing Public Humanities as a Graduate Student
What does publicly engaged work look like for humanities graduate students. More...
Time Management Roundup
It’s October and that means that the days are getting shorter even as to-do lists get longer and deadlines draw nearer. More...
Fellowship Tips: DOE SCGSR
Tips on applying for the Department of Energy Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) program. More...
Business Genderqueer
Let's be real. Wardrobe choices in graduate school can be tricky. Some of us dress more formally to teach. Others have felt the need to make more conservative fashion choices when teaching. When I taught math face-to-face, I wore a button-down shirt for at least the first day as an indicator that I was, in fact, the teacher. More...
The Grad Abroad: Doing Your Ph.D. in Germany
In 2016, I moved to Giessen, Germany to start a Ph.D. in history. Giessen is a small university town in Hessen, a 40-minute train ride away from Frankfurt, the closest big city. Though originally from the great (lakes) state of Michigan, I moved away from the U.S. several years before coming to Giessen and picked up a German beau along the way. More...
Writing Habits That Work
Over the course of these last few weeks, I’ve been buried in writing. In addition to working on my dissertation, I’ve also been working with graduate students on their applications for national fellowships and academic jobs and together we’ve scaled a small mountain of research and personal statements. More...
Channeling Our Inner Freshmen
When the shared joys and pains of academic writing unite us with the undergrads we teach. More...