A co-authored article introducing Asian Highlands Perspectives and published in the journal Himalaya is now available on this website.
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I have spent a decent part of my dissertation period re-reading articles. In many cases, I think I have found them on my own, thinking that I'm stumbling on a new body of literature. That initial excitement of discovery, however, dissipates just as quickly when, half way through the article, I realize that I have already read it before for a class. The joy turns to disappointment, mostly in myself.
I realize now that much of my graduate school was spent engaged in a sort of academic triage. I would give more time to classes or individual readings that seemed, at the time, to be more pressing or important. In almost all cases I would read to complete the article, rather than reading to really understand. Unfortunately, my judgement wasn't always so great. So it is, with apologies to certain professors (Prof. Chan, Prof. Modan, and others) that I've begun to come back to articles I had read before and forgotten. I probably could have saved much energy in this part of the process by actually knowing from the off what things would be important and what wouldn't (not mentioning names for this negative side). I haven't been outside in several days. It's crazy, and it's not the weather.
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About TimAs you can see elsewhere on this webpage, I conduct research on ethnic minorities in western China. This blog offers semi-academic musings on the minutiae of daily life out here--the sort of information otherwise destined for footnotes. Categories |