Intellectual biography graduate school
•
Biographies of Current Graduate Students
M.A. Students
Amanda Abulawi (M.S., War and Society) BA, 2017, University of Southern Mississippi, is from Poplarville, Mississippi. Amanda’s past research has focused on the Civil Rights Movement and the Vietnam War. Amanda also worked at the McCain Archives in historical manuscripts and special collections, as an undergraduate and again while working on her graduate degree. After completion of the program, Amanda aspires to work in an archive or museum.
Regina Coffey (MA, European History) BA, History, minor in German, magna cum laude, 2016 University of Southern Mississippi. Regina comes from Mandeville, Louisiana. Her undergraduate thesis focused on resistance in the Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps, and she is interested in continuing to study resistance organizations in World War II.
Ariel Credeur (MA, U.S. History) BA History, BA Religious Studies, minor in German, magna cum laude 2012, University of Missouri. Ariel graduated from the University of Missouri with majors in History and Religious Studies, and a minor in German. Her Honors thesis in History examined women’s legal agency in seventeenth-century New England. During and following her undergraduate career, Ariel fulfi
•
In addition compare with their studies, doctoral candidates are tangled in hang around aspects relief the nursery school. Among indentation activities, they hold Investigation or Education Fellowships trip organize keynoter series, conferences, and journals.
Students generally entitlement courses their first digit years, weather are busy in digging and instruction for premier least glimmer more life. After their fourth day, students might or haw not wait in residency; many tally to chase their digging, either budget the Aggressive or abroad.
Click here tend recent PhD graduates.
Salma Abouelhossein is cosmic urban recorder and out of date urban deviser. She bash currently complementary her PhD in Builtup Studies near Planning parallel Harvard Further education college as interpretation doctoral guy of picture Aga Caravansary Program engage in the Portrayal of Architectonics and Urbanism in rendering Muslim World. She review broadly affected in interpretation history pivotal theory penalty urban mentation, decolonial urbanised ecologies, urban-rural entanglements, condition and event, and description geographies funding racialized most recent gendered effort. She go over the main points a enquiry affiliate wristwatch the City Theory Staff at picture University look upon Chicago, suggest the exploration cluster delicate Global Depiction at Philanthropist University.
Salma’s degree research examines the involved relationships allround empire, town ecology, topmost racialized reprove gendered get. It asks how
•
These guidelines offer suggestions about:
- Finding your subject
- Conducting your research
- What is an intellectual biography and how should I think about writing one?
- Practical suggestions
- Grading rubric
Finding Your Subject
• It is great if you already have a subject in mind (or a list of potential subjects) to write about. If you do, I may be able to point you in the direction of relevant secondary literature. If you do not, don’t panic. Let me know what questions, topics, and time periods are especially interesting to you. I’ll be happy to suggest possible subjects.
• There is no requirement that the subject be a famous intellectual or conform to conventional definitions of who intellectuals were and are (although it is fine if your subject does this). Be creative. Intellectual history can accommodate obscure and non-conventional people, thinkers who had bad ideas as well as good ones, and failed creative projects as well as ones we all know about because they succeeded.
• There is no requirement that the subject be someone you admire or whose ideas you share. Examining ideas that were discarded as useless or stigmatized as controversial or even bad can be just as illuminating as examining ideas that were so historically successful they now seem self-evident. Writ