Mama PhD

It’s been just over a year since I started writing this blog. Last May I was just coming off sabbatical...

I have been asked to write about a dilemma many academics face now: whether to stay or go. What do...

If, God forbid, your sister was violently murdered, to what ends would you go to make sure no one else...

For the last three months a German film student has been living in the basement of my Chicago home. David...

In graduate school my friends and I occasionally amused ourselves by imagining what our dissertation topics said about us. Female...

Hello, I found you online when you responded to a student's concerns about leaving her academic schoolwork (you posed 8...

Last week, I looked out at my classes and found many more empty desks than I had expected to see...

Last week I had the honor of speaking on behalf of Mama, PhD at the Arkansas Council for Women in...