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A Blog from GradHacker and MATRIX: The Center for Humane Arts, Letters and Social Sciences Online

A Blog from GradHacker and MATRIX: The Center for Humane Arts, Letters and Social Sciences Online

March 17, 2013 - 10:34pm
In the grand scheme of grad life, teaching responsibilities loom large. Teaching is an important part of the professor’s career and yet learning to teach every student well is a process. In academic spaces, mentioning the word “inclusion” to grads and faculty has eye-turning effects. Some faculty and grads do not glance over to the people of difference in the room to check if in fact, they are still female, differently-abled, bilingual, working class, homosexual, non-White, Jewish, immigrant, bi-racial, or atheist; yet many do.
March 14, 2013 - 8:32pm
At the most recent conference of the Association for Slavic, Eastern European and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES), held last November, representatives from several academic presses and scholars who had recently published monographs based on their dissertations held a roundtable dedicated to giving current grad students tips on what they should prepare for if they intend on turning their dissertation into a book.
March 12, 2013 - 10:50pm
Right now I am right smack in the middle of writing my dissertation proposal. Talk to any graduate student at this phase of the process and they will groan in recognition of the long slog it seems to be. At this point in my writing I have successfully organized my closets and my bathrooms have never been so clean.  In spite of all this, I'm still managing to eke out a few pages a day and, slowly but surely, I am getting there.
March 10, 2013 - 9:07pm
You've selected an interesting conference in your field. Your abstract, and then your paper have been accepted. You have prepared your presentation, and you're ready to go.  
March 7, 2013 - 8:25pm
We are proud to reveal some GradHacker swag! The gear celebrates nearly two years of building a community that shares advice and insights on how to 'hack' grad school.  We have created water bottles, shirts, stickers, and pens that our authors and friends will be spreading at campuses and conferences.

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