Graduate Education

Presentation: Academic Presentations Vita

AltAc and the Engaged PhD

Without diminishing the centrality of the PhD research endeavor, how can we cultivate more engaged graduate students? This presentation situates the graduate research endeavor in its wider institutional and public context and suggests two concrete…

Christopher LongSeptember 15, 2014

The Graduate Experience The Long Road

Performing the Humanities PhD

One of the main affordances of the emergence of digital modes of scholarship in the humanities is the manner in which they have opened the question anew about the relationship between the content of humanities…

Christopher LongJune 23, 2014

Presentation: Interactive Presentation: Other Presentations The Graduate Experience Vita

Cultivating an Online Scholarly Presence

Graduate students are often confronted with conflicting advice about how much of their academic work they should share publicly online. Although there are good reasons to consider carefully what one shares and how, graduate students…

Christopher LongMarch 27, 2014

The Graduate Experience The Long Road

Expanding the Humanities PhD Market

The Chronicle of Higher Education recently published an article Susan Welch and I wrote about the data the College has collected since 1996 on the placement of our graduate students in the social sciences and…

Christopher LongFebruary 10, 2014

Digital Dialogue Podcast

Digital Dialogue 21: Rhetoric and Philosophy

Axelle Karera, graduate student in Philosophy at Penn State, and Nicolas Parra, who is a visiting student at Penn State as he completes his M.A. degree from Universidad de los Andes in Bogata, Columbia, join…

Christopher LongDecember 8, 2009

Morning light on Old Main at Penn State University

Presentation: Other Presentations The Graduate Experience The Long Road

Time Management for Graduate Students

One of the most difficult things for new Graduate Students to manage effectively is their time. This is in large part because graduate study has built into it large segments of unstructured time that can…

Christopher LongNovember 9, 2009

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