From Concept to Completion: A Dissertation-Writing Guide for History Students [Paperback]

Filled with helpful tips, sage advice, and practical steps from outstanding historians, this pamphlet is a must-have resource for all graduate students about to begin the long and daunting road towards completing the PhD.Filled with helpful tips, sage advice, and practical steps from outstanding historians, this pamphlet is a must-have resource for all graduate students about to begin the long and daunting road towards completing the PhD.Preface by Elise LipkowitzChapter 1: Defining a History Dissertation and Its Role in Your Future Scholarship by Jack P. GreeneChapter 2: The Genesis of a Dissertation: From Choosing a Topic and Developing a Proposal by Leora AuslanderChapter 3: Managing Your Dissertation Committee by the AHA Graduate and Early Career CommitteeChapter 4: Managing the Committee: A Faculty Member's Perspective by W. Fitzhugh BrundageChapter 5: Bowling for Dollars: The Art of Writing the Grant Proposal by Vanessa R. SchwartzChapter 6: Organizing Materials from Archives to Dissertaion by Anthony GraftonChapter 7: Delving into the Dissertation by Jeffrey N. WasserstromChapter 8: Approaching the Archives by Jana Bouck RemyChapter 9: Thinking about Sources: Primary and Secondary Documents by Mary LindemannChapter 10: From Notes to Narrative: Finding the Story by Deborah E. HarknessChapter 11: When Words Don't Come . . . by James J. SheehanChapter 12: Towards a Unified Document: The Big Picture in Dissertation Writing by Lary MayChapter 13: The Final Rites of Passage: Submitting and Defending the Dissertation by Thomas S. MullaneyAbout the AuthorsElise Lipkowitz is chair of the AHA's Graduate and Early Career Committee, and is a doctoral candidate in history at Northwestern University