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Should Applicants to a Ph.D Program Have a Fully-Formed Dissertation Idea in Mind When They Apply?

John Fea   |  June 2, 2018

I often counsel undergraduates and M.A. students, both my students and others, about applying to Ph.D programs.  I talked a bit about what I sometimes say to them in Episode 37 of The Way of Improvement Leads Home Podcast. Every...

Who Did You Thank in Your Ph.D Dissertation Acknowledgments?

John Fea   |  April 24, 2018

This does not come close to the greatest acknowledgments section of all time (a story we broke here at The Way of Improvement Leads Home), but it is interesting.  Jennifer Polk, a history Ph.D who now runs the website Beyond...

Ghost Dissertation Advisers

John Fea   |  March 7, 2018

I am thankful that I had an excellent dissertation adviser who cared about my work.  Katrin Schultheiss, the current chair of the Department of History at George Washington University, did not have the same experience.  She described her experience (at...

New Jersey Historical Commission Driscoll Prize

John Fea   |  February 22, 2014

The Commission is Accepting Nominations for the Alfred E. Driscoll PRIZE Nominations Due April 15, 2014 The Alfred E. Driscoll Prize is an award of $1,500 to the author of an outstanding doctoral dissertation in New Jersey history. Nominations are...

Historians Write the Longest Doctoral Dissertations

John Fea   |  May 9, 2013 3 Comments

According to this Flowing Data chart, history graduate students write longer dissertations than any other discipline.  The average history dissertation is just over 325 pages in length.  Only anthropology comes close.

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