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Portrait of Dean Randy Diehl.

Using Your Mellon

May 3, 2017 by Randy Diehl

The College of Liberal Arts has a long and proud tradition of preparing its graduate students to teach and conduct research in the humanities at colleges and universities around the world, and we are particularly proud of our many placements in the nation’s top institutions. However, over the past two decades academic positions in the […]

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Teaching While Learning in Graduate School

August 11, 2016 by Fatma Tarlaci

“When I found out that I was going to TA in the beginning of the semester, I was very nervous. Not only was this my first semester in grad school, but I’ve also never taught anything at this academic level. I’m so incredibly glad that I registered for this class. I learned so many valuable […]

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From Bryan to Sicily: Public Scholars Join Academy to Community

November 20, 2014 by Alicia Dietrich

In her most recent study, anthropologist Circe Sturm returned to her own backyard in East Texas. Sturm’s family hails from Sicilian roots, specifically a cluster of more than 1,000 Sicilians who settled in Bryan, Texas, around the turn of the 20th century. This enclave has managed to preserve many Sicilian traditions, including an annual ritual in which a single Sicilian-Texan family hosts 800 guests […]

Kathleen Shafer, a Geography and the Environment graudate student and boot camp participant, discovered her dissertation topic in Marfa, Texas while photographing abandoned airfields. Photo courtsey of Kathleen Shafer.

How to Jumpstart Your Dissertation

September 5, 2013 by Michelle Bryant Leave a Comment

Boot camp helps graduate students avoid pitfalls and get writing Like most graduate students, the hardest part of Kathleen Shafer’s dissertation was getting started. Shafer, a graduate student in the Department of Geography and the Environment, was among 11 graduate students from The University of Texas at Austin to attend Dissertation Boot Camp this summer, […]

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