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Diaspora/Migration

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 I knew I wanted to...
Culture, Society & Politics

DR is Dead. Long Live DR.

Ever since Dissertation Reviews was founded in 2010, our goal has been a consistent one: to expose the scholarly world to cutting-edge PhD dissertatio...
Advisor

Are PhD Advisors Failing Their Students?

In Partial Fulfillment: Are PhD Advisors in the Humanities and Social Sciences Doing Their Job? Dissertation Reviews hosted an informal survey in Fall...
Latin America

When Documents are More than Just Words

Opening the worn, soft-bound leather cover of a hefty volume of notarial documents produced in nineteenth-century Mexico City, I hoped to find a neat ...
Japan

From PhD to Librarian

I have the best job in the world.  Great colleagues.  Wonderful challenges.  Meaningful impact.  On a daily basis it is my job to think about...
China

Field Work With Swiss Migrants in China

Tracing mobilities and moorings in China – some reflections about my field work on Swiss migrants in Mainland China It is May 19th, 2015, 23:00....
Diaspora/Migration

Navigating Bureaucracy During Fieldwork

Navigating Bureaucracy: Legal Constraints and Professional Transformations During Fieldwork As a unique, contextual and exclusive form of representati...
South Asia

Mindfulness and Teaching Violent Subject Matter

“Do you ever teach books that have a happy ending?”, “How come we are studying such depressing subjects?”, “Why are all these stories so sad?”......
Museum Studies

Public Engagement Through Museum Exhibits

Research in Translation: Public Engagement through Exhibition Displays Can museum practice foster public engagement and greater collaboration between ...
Advisor

Survey on PhD Advising – Final Week

Dissertation Reviews is sponsoring a project on PhD advising, and we need your help! We are asking academics (PhD students through full professors) wh...
Media Studies

Colonial Photography in British India

Violence and the Archive: Colonial Photography in Nineteenth-Century British India My research deals with some of the more extreme elements of ninetee...
Asian Art

Art Meets Scholarship: Q&A with Tong Lam

When Art Meets Scholarship in the Age of Digital Production: A Q&A with Tong Lam Professor Tong Lam is Associate Professor of History at the...
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