The Googled Graduate Student
It is going to happen. Maybe not today or this week, but eventually, you will be Googled. I am not talking about being Googled by an old friend interested in what you might be up to these days; I am...
View ArticleA Domain of Your Own
As a graduate student in the digital age, you need a domain of your own. First of all, you will be Googled, and when you are, your domain should appear early in the results as the fulcrum of a...
View ArticleExpanding the Humanities PhD Market
The Chronicle of Higher Education recently published an article Susan Welch and I wrote about the data the College has collected since 1996 on the placement of our graduate students in the social...
View ArticleCultivating an Online Scholarly Presence
Graduate students are often confronted with conflicting advice about how much of their academic work they should share publicly online. Although there are good reasons to consider carefully what one...
View ArticlePerforming the Humanities PhD
One of the main affordances of the emergence of digital modes of scholarship in the humanities is the manner in which they have opened the question anew about the relationship between the content of...
View ArticleAltAc and the Engaged PhD
Without diminishing the centrality of the PhD research endeavor, how can we cultivate more engaged graduate students? This presentation situates the graduate research endeavor in its wider...
View ArticleTime Management for Graduate Students
One of the most difficult things for new Graduate Students to manage effectively is their time. This is in large part because graduate study has built into it large segments of unstructured time that...
View ArticleDigital Dialogue 21: Rhetoric and Philosophy
Axelle Karera, graduate student in Philosophy at Penn State, and Nicolas Parra, who is a visiting student at Penn State as he completes his M.A. degree from Universidad de los Andes in Bogata,...
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