There’s not much good to find in a destructive pandemic, but here’s one potentially positive outcome: Covid-19 may bring graduate schools to a long-needed reckoning with the dissertation requirement.

The dissertation proposal and the specialty exam serve different purposes and should be viewed as separate activities, even though often executed concurrently. The dissertation proposal marks the ...

Writing a dissertation is, perhaps, one of the most tasking jobs for college students. The fast-paced nature of modern society has made it harder for students to spare time for completing voluminous ...

You have /5 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. Writing a dissertation is a grueling process that does not just require academic prowess, an ...

Each American Studies major completes a capstone project during the final spring semester of study. Students develop these projects in the Senior Seminar class, working closely with the seminar's ...

With support from the National Science Foundation (NSF), the AERA Dissertation Grants support dissertation research using rigorous quantitative methods to examine large-scale, education-related data.

The Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowships support a year of research and writing to help advanced graduate students in the humanities and related social sciences in the last year of PhD ...