The Chronicle of Higher Education

Should You Turn Your Dissertation Into a Book?

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.
Times Higher Education

‘Prune the tree to let the fruit stand out’

For a thesis to become a book, we need to prune the branches of the tree so that the fruit stands out. This will mean ...
The Chronicle of Higher Education

It’s a Dissertation, Not a Book

My last column centered on the new difficulties that graduate students face in turning their dissertations into books. Some readers responded that plenty of dissertations shouldn’t be revised into ...
Inside Higher Ed

Turning the Dissertation into a Book

Benjamin Sawyer is a doctoral candidate in the Department of History at Michigan State University and Development Editor for GradHacker. You can follow him on twitter at @Ben_Sawyer. At the most ...
Inside Higher Ed

Three Books that Changed my Dissertation

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 ...
WIBW

KU doctoral student turns dissertation on race theory, psychology into new book

LAWRENCE, Kan. (WIBW) - A recent University of Kansas doctoral student turns his dissertation on race theory and psychology into a new book. KU officials said as the COVID-19 pandemic unfolded ...