Intensive Arbeit am Text von Qualifikationsschriften ist in den Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften unverzichtbar. Insbesondere unter den Bedingungen der Pandemie und ihren vielen sozialen Belastungen wird auch für Promovierende diese Form der Arbeit erschwert.
Dave, Hugh, and Lois,
I appreciate your candid and detailed replies. I imagine most of us have similar stories, and I certainly encourage more people who come across this conversation to contribute. I am particularly curious about how my fellow dissertators have fared throughout the pandemic.
I, too, want to thank Dan for writing his thoughtful post and taking the H-CivWar Author’s Blog in a different direction. In a number of ways, my situation differs somewhat from the other contributors to this blog. That accounts for the decisions I made and how Covid affected me.
The timing of Dan's post rings especially true for me: last week, I realized that with the National Archives reopening, it was time to stop delaying my time in residence. So I've flown across country for an unknown length of time, to dig in deep. (BTW, if anyone has connections to DC-area housing, please let me know -- I've got a place to stay for April and again from June 9 on, but May is entirely a question mark. I tell myself this helps me enter the mindset of instability that marked life during the Civil War, so it too is part of the research ; 0)
In this post for the H-CivWar Author's Blog, Daniel Farrell discusses the challenges of researching and writing a dissertation during the pandemic.
CFP for GSA Roundtable:
Perspectives on Digital Dissertations: Practitioners, Advisors, and Editors
Sponsored by the GSA Digital Humanities Network
German Studies Association Annual Meeting (September 15-18, 2022, Houston, TX)
New Abstract Deadline: March 23, 2022
The Alexander Gerschenkron Prize is awarded for the best dissertation in the economic history of an area outside of the United States or Canada completed during the preceding year. The 2022 prize will be awarded at the Economic History Association’s annual meeting in La Crosse in September 2022.
Scholars submitting a dissertation for the dissertation and prizes for the 2022 Economic History Association meeting may not submit a proposal for the general program that is part of or derived from the dissertation.
