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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...
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...
In Partial Fulfillment: Are PhD Advisors in the Humanities and Social Sciences Doing Their Job? Dissertation Reviews hosted an informal survey in Fall...
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 ...
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...
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....
Navigating Bureaucracy: Legal Constraints and Professional Transformations During Fieldwork As a unique, contextual and exclusive form of representati...
“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?”......
Research in Translation: Public Engagement through Exhibition Displays Can museum practice foster public engagement and greater collaboration between ...
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Violence and the Archive: Colonial Photography in Nineteenth-Century British India My research deals with some of the more extreme elements of ninetee...
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...