Katie Shives is a PhD candidate in Microbiology at the University of Colorado. Her writing can be found on her portfolio site, kdshives.com. Anyone pursuing a graduate degree has experienced the ...

You’ve at long last completed a few of your upper-level alumni courses, and you’re beginning to design your dissertation at the same time. You might be reasoning that composing this paper will be a ...

For many early career scholars in the humanities and social sciences, it’s just a given: You turn your dissertation into a book. Not only that, but you begin doing so the moment you complete the Ph.D.