The Graduate
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Remote Reflections: Being a Graduate Teaching Assistant during the Pandemic
Perspectives Daily
Victoria Funk | Aug 28, 2020
Graduate teaching assistants, not quite students and not yet faculty, face unique challenges during COVID-19. -
Gains and Losses
Perspectives Daily
Olivia M. Hagedorn | Apr 30, 2019
Conversations about pursuing nonacademic careers often center on what is lost. But what if we shift the focus on what is gained? -
The Making of the Graduate Working Class
Perspectives Daily
Jeff Schuhrke | Jan 29, 2019
An AHA19 panel brought together graduate activists for a discussion on challenges to unionization in universities. -
Searching for Jobs outside the Academy?
Perspectives Daily
Christina Copland | Jul 30, 2018
There’s no one, direct route to getting a nonacademic job.
Most Recent
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Cultivating Mentoring Relationships in Grad School
Sarah Mellors | Jun 14, 2018
Students have more agency than they realize when it comes to getting the mentoring they need in grad school. -
Making Historians in the Archive
Christina Copland | May 14, 2018
Archival research, which often requires visiting depositories around the globe, plays a major role in shaping our identity as historians.... -
Spring Cleaning Tip #1
Christina Copland | Apr 9, 2018
Success in academia, writes Christina Copland, is often unrelated to the merits of one's scholarship. Yet, the meritocracy myth encourages graduate students to think otherwise. -
Letter to a Prospective History Graduate Student
Christina Copland | Mar 5, 2018
Christina Copland advises prospective history graduate students to think carefully about what they can do from day one to get... -
The Graduate
Christina Copland | Feb 5, 2018
Christina Copland introduces The Graduate, a new series on AHA Today providing space for a productive dialogue about graduate student life.