The Graduate

  • 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.