Thinking again about how I was told my US history PhD wasn’t broad enough for a US history job because I’d researched American Catholics. - ThreadSky

About ThreadSky

erinbartram.bsky.social • 4 days ago

Thinking again about how I was told my US history PhD wasn’t broad enough for a US history job because I’d researched American Catholics.

🫠

It’s plenty broad enough. Sorry you also got bad advice.

Oh no, this was from hiring committees not my advisor

Well still A holes. I’m sorry people don’t see the value of things.

Something something “the End of History!” so on and so forth.

Which is fun b/c when you look at an AHA schedule, the ACHA takes up a good chunk of it.

ACHA is the absolute best org.

AAAAAAUUUUUGHH

there's so much wrong with this statement and so little space here, so I'll go with PhDs are supposed to be broad now???

I mean, I had done a proper PhD but doing my diss on Catholicism (and a bunch of other things, like women) made me too narrow.

they really will make up any excuse

yep

Reply