Publishing En Route to a Tenure-Track Job
Publishing En Route to a Tenure-Track Job: Great Expectations vs. the Real World Like many PhD students in the humanities…
Publish to Flourish? Grad School Publishing Perils
Getting a PhD in the humanities and social sciences can seem like a years-long obstacle race in which most contestants…
A Narrator-centered Approach to History
A Narrator-centered Approach to History: Oral Sources in Amdo (Qinghai, PRC) This essay discusses some of the challenges that, despite…
Why Humanists Should Fall in Love with “Big Data,” and How?
Why Humanists Should Fall in Love with “Big Data,” and How? Maps show historical continuity. Here is a map of…
Tracing Visions
Tracing Visions In June 1936, on an overcast day in Hebei, North China, a small group of American Presbyterian missionaries…
The Fieldwork Visceral
The Fieldwork Visceral Fieldwork. Those of us who have done it—or are in it—all remember the panicked emails we sent…
Conducting Interviews in Pakistan
Conducting interviews in Pakistan: An account from the field Pakistan has been under the spotlight of the international media since…
Researcher Fatigue in Highly Researched Communities
“You’re a white chick, what are you researching?” Comments on the phenomenon of researcher fatigue I had been in Mumbai…
Survey: Publishing While Still in Grad School
Advisor will soon tackle the question of publishing while still in grad school. Please help us by taking this short survey,…
Archives and Activism in Hispaniola
When I moved to the Dominican Republic in 2012 to conduct dissertation research on the history of Haitian migrant communities…