The first book of most academic historians is a strange creature: a dissertation that has become a book. How and when should newly minted Ph.D.’s transform those dissertations into books? It is one of ...

In her dissertation, Shirah Malka Cohen, PhD ‘23 in Near Eastern and Judaic Studies (NEJS), examined the use of classical music in early 20th century Japanese and Hebrew Literatures. She has now ...

For many early career scholars in the humanities and social sciences, it’s just a given: You turn your dissertation into a book. Not only that, but you begin doing so the moment you complete the Ph.D.

At the most recent conference of the Association for Slavic, Eastern European and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES), held last November, representatives from several academic presses and scholars who had ...

Heather VanMouwerik is a Ph.D candidate in Russian History at the University of California, Riverside. Follow her on Twitter @HVanMouwerik or check out her website. Writing is hard. Five months ago, I ...

How do you publish your dissertation as a book? The question has been asked countless times yet still animates scores of ambitious graduate students—and their advisers—in the humanities and social ...