Category: Careers & Professionalization
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Hey Postdocs: Let’s meet!
EDIT: our first virtual meetup has been scheduled! https://www.hastac.org/opportunities/postdocs-virtual-meetup — I recently created the postdoctoral laborers group as a place for current and future postdocs in the humanities to talk about our jobs and our futures. If this description fits you, please join the group! To get us started, I’m scheduling a virtual meeting, which…
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What I Wish I Knew Before Starting My PhD
This blog post originally appeared on my website on February 8, 2018. Now in my fifth year, writing my dissertation, I’ve had some time to reflect on my beginnings as a PhD student and the years preceding it when I was getting my Masters. I’ve attended the same institution for 7 years and watched…
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Putting the Humanities PhD to Work
I’m excited to announce that Putting the Humanities Ph.D. to Work: Theory, Practice, and Models for Thriving Beyond the Classroom is in contract with Duke University Press. The book is a project that I have been working on in one way or another ever since working with the Scholarly Communication Institute and the Scholars’ Lab at UVa.…
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New Beginnings
After my daughter was born in 2014, I couldn’t believe how hard it was to avoid clichés when everything was so startlingly new to me. She was growing so fast, I felt so much joy and so much exhaustion, I worried about diaper rash and breastfeeding and the state of the world. Thoughts of health…
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CV and Cover Letter Peer Review Exercise
Originally posted on the CUNY Humanities Alliance website. On Friday, September 1, I facilitated a CV and Cover Letter Peer Review Workshop. This was similar in many ways to Workshop I did with the Futures Initiative in 2016. Typically, before the workshop, I have people submit their CV and Cover Letter to a google…
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Welcome Arizona State University, HASTAC’s New Institutional Partner!
Beginning July 1, 2017, Arizona State University (ASU)—together with the Graduate Center, City University of New York (CUNY)–will lead HASTAC in the organization’s next phase of “changing the way we teach and learn.” After twelve productive years at Duke, the Nexus Digital Research Co-op will now co-host HASTAC at ASU in partnership with the Graduate…
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Proposal for a University Department for ‘The Study Of Time’
Proposal for a University Department for ‘The Study Of Time’ by Rick Doble INTRODUCTION Today circular repeating time (right) is being replaced with linear time as the digital clock on the left shows. Time is the most used noun in the English language according to the Concise Oxford English Dictionary. This is…
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Talking through NCPH 2017: Community Engagement in a Digital World
As a participant in the NCPH 2017 Working Group “Meeting in the Middle: Community Engagement in a Digital World,” ten public history practitioners and I are talking through the successes and struggles of web 2.0 projects. Seeing digital projects as places of shared authority, silence and exclusion, as well as part of the broader definition of…
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DH Jobs: Getting Beyond the “Life Raft or Trendy Fad” Debate
Pick the best answer. DH jobs are: A. Definitely everywhere! “A bastion of hope for Humanities scholars,” I’ve called them before at parties. B. Most places, right? C. Some places…kinda? D. Quickly receding into a job market graveyard after a glorious but brief vogue. This question might be difficult to answer because all of these…
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Rhode Island: My City, My Place!
Our team is new to designing playlists, however, our collective skills and experiences have found a “home” in the playlist concept. Our team consists of a technology trainer, adult education instructional designer, teen public librarian and high school educator. We each bring a piece of the puzzle to the design of our playlist. Reviewing other playlists…