graduate education

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  2/10/2022
  

  When Professors Close Ranks

  by Claire Bond Potter

  If administrations can't be counted on to support student victims of sexual harassment, faculty need to be prepared to defend students and help them defend themselves by whatever means necessary. 

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• 2/10/2022
  

  Historians on the Harvard Sexual Harassment Scandal

  Two competing open letters pitted Harvard faculty against each other over discipline imposed on anthropology professor John Comaroff. Then a federal lawsuit made the full range of accusations against the professor and the university public. 

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• SOURCE: Insurrect: Radical Thinking in Early American Studies
  2/10/2022
  

  Notes from a Grad School Survivor

  by Kellen Heniford

  This week's revelations of sexual harassment and institutional complicity at Harvard are striking a chord with women academics because they're not surprising. The author discusses her own experiences and the power dynamics stacked against students and survivors.

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• SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
  2/9/2022
  

  The Tip of the Iceberg at Harvard?

  Just after 38 Harvard faculty penned an open letter of support for Professor John Comaroff, a lawsuit by three graduate students against him and the university was announced. The allegations describe a repeated pattern of harassment and institutional protection for an abuser.

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  12/3/2021
  

  Can We Teach Grad Students in the Humanities to Collaborate?

  by Leonard Cassuto

  Historians “do everything alone,” said Professor Rita Chin of the University of Michigan. The archival work, the thinking, the writing — all are structured as solitary pursuits.

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• SOURCE: Perspectives on History
  4/20/2021
  

  Terminal Does Not Mean Dead: Why the History MA Deserves Our Attention

  by Lauren Braun-Strumfels and Tim Herbert

  Caught between the Bachelor's and the PhD, the Master's degree in history needs to get much more careful consideration as a part of the historical profession and as training for historians outside of higher education. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Monthly
  12/3/2020
  

  The PhD Glut and What to Do About It

  by Jonathan Zimmerman

  A professor of education history addresses a recent book on career diversity for PhD students and questions whether academic departments are prepared to revamp their curricula to prepare students for careers outside academia. 

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• 5/17/2020
  

  Graduate Students: NOT THE WORST

  by Michelle Nickerson

  A history professor celebrates her graduate students' idiosyncrasies and their outstanding work under duress as redemption for a calamitous semester.

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• SOURCE: The Chronicle of Higher Education
  3/31/2020
  

  Don’t Forget About Graduate Students

  by Nadirah Farah Foley

  Our labor sustains colleges’ educational mission. Now it’s time for universities to sustain us.

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• SOURCE: AHA Perspectives on History
  12/2/19
  

  James Grossman Writes Article on Career Diversity: "Revising Revisited: Words Matter When It Comes to Career Diversity"

  by James Grossman

  Historians need to write and speak carefully. A single word or phrase, a particularly evocative metaphor, can undermine a nuanced argument pointing in a very different direction.