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  • Marking Time or Making Progress?

    Marking Time or Making Progress?

    So here we are again, with me missing another monthly blog post. But this time, it’s a little bit different than when I missed the post a couple of months ago. This time, something happens to my brain when summer vacation starts, which I’m sure a lot of us can relate to. I suddenly forget Read more

  • “Building a Community: Connecting with History Enthusiasts and Researchers”

    “Building a Community: Connecting with History Enthusiasts and Researchers”

    I’ll start off by saying that I’m bummed that I didn’t get a March post in. That’s what happens when my hope for the March post was content related to my dissertation, and I ended up not writing in that section and I didn’t have another section that I wanted to present in a post. Read more

  • Time and Task Management:

    Time and Task Management:

    Reflections on Post-Coursework Years Chaos. Regret. Stagnant. I think that is the best way to describe what these last few semesters as a Ph.D. Student and Ph.D. Candidate have felt like. I don’t have classwork to complete, classes to go to, or a true schedule to complete for accomplishing my tasks and goals for the Read more

  • 2024 TBR and Watch List: Must-Reads and Must-Watches for Every History Enthusiast

    2024 TBR and Watch List: Must-Reads and Must-Watches for Every History Enthusiast

    Idea for this post and its title inspiration was generated by an AI language model (ChatGPT, OpenAI, 2024) With the new year comes a lot of goal-setting. For me, it’s getting my dissertation done, or at least a draft by the end of the spring semester, working on my mapping project, and drumming up interest Read more

  • Is that really how Mayor Crossman got elected? (with Update, December ’23)

    Is that really how Mayor Crossman got elected? (with Update, December ’23)

    I suppose the background you may need on this is that I am constructing a map as a part of my dissertation. Broadly speaking, I am generating a map to put the events and locations from my dissertation into a single place. And that allows me to answer some really cool questions. Like this one: Read more

  • Can She Do It? Three Weeks of Research Without a Checked Bag?

    Can She Do It? Three Weeks of Research Without a Checked Bag?

    So a bit of a spoiler alert here: I think I can. But let’s dive in anyway: I have the largest research trip of my PhD career coming up in about a week and a half from the time I am writing this. Three weeks, four cities, and one conference in there as well. And Read more

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