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13 janvier 2020

On Grad Strategy

As the fall semester wraps up at most colleges and universities, many graduate students are working their way through the mounds of work that accompany the end of the semester: the piles of papers to grade, the reams of data to analyze, the chapter revisions that they promised their adviser would absolutely, positively, 100 percent be in their inbox by the time final grades are due. More...
13 janvier 2020

The Holiday Season… Read!

This is my favorite time of year. For me, the holiday season is filled with feelings of nostalgia, familiar traditions and a focus on the very best traits of mankind: giving, listening and being together. More...
13 janvier 2020

A ‘Gradhacker’ Gift Guide

Happy holidays, Gradhackers! It’s that time of the year, when friends and family ask our favorite questions, like:
“Why are you working over winter break?”
“Wait, when are you going to graduate?”
And, of course, “What do you want for Christmas?”
I may not have much help to offer for navigating the first two conversations, but I’m taking a stab at the third. More...
13 janvier 2020

On Shadowbox(ing) Our Degree Paths

Ever since I was a youngster, no other holiday season has filled me with such giddy anticipation as this time of the year. More...

13 janvier 2020

Teaching Research in the First-Year Writing Classroom in the U.S.

I’ll start with a confession: I have never taken a writing class in my entire life. This is because writing courses are not part of the curriculum in India. More...

13 janvier 2020

Against the Right Wing

In the last month and a half, I woke up in the morning almost every day to receive terrible news arriving from India that ranged from state-sponsored police brutality on students at Jamia Milia Islamia and Aligarh Muslim University to passing of a law that specifically targeted minorities. Furthermore, right-wing goons beat up students and faculty mercilessly inside Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), one of the premier research institutes in India. More...

13 janvier 2020

Career Paths: Returning to Academia From Industry

One of the most common questions my undergraduate students ask me is whether they should pursue a Ph.D. straight out of undergrad or if they should go to work first. As someone who hasn’t left academia aside from internships, I can offer them only a limited experience. More...

13 janvier 2020

The Christians I Know

I’m at a conference of mostly moderate evangelical Christians in the Pacific Northwest, and virtually everybody I have met is doing something that helps humanity and inspires me. More...

13 janvier 2020

How to Be Progressive Without Being Divisive

I’ve been struck that in the middle of America’s polarization vortex, the unifying figures of Dolly Parton and Fred Rogers appear to be everywhere. More...

13 janvier 2020

Ancient and Modern Wisdom of Friendship Across Difference

There are illuminating historical examples of positive interfaith interaction and friendship, and modern research is affirming the power of relationship across lines of difference. More...

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