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Dear friends,
Sometimes life gets in the way of best laid plans and intentions. We had a death in the family in mid-April that turned our lives inside out, and now I will be traveling until mid August. At that time I will make a decision about wheth…
I participated in Government 2.0 Camp, an Un-Conference held this past weekend in DC. About 350 government workers, scholars, new media gurus, consultants, and interested members of the public gathered to brainstorm and share ideas on making govern…
I participated in Government 2.0 Camp, an Un-Conference held this past weekend in DC. About 350 government workers, scholars, new media gurus, consultants, and interested members of the public gathered to brainstorm and share ideas on making govern…
My dad used to say, "do you have ten years of experience? or one year of experience ten times over?" It sounds like you have a number of remarkable experiences and strengths, but they aren't being articulated or shared effectively on your resume or…
Welcome to our community and it sounds like you'll be able to contribute some really helpful ideas here. Cheers, Diane
I have a thought which I would like to share regarding this. Over past many years during my working career, I have experienced multiple personalities on different levels from co-workers, to small business vendors, to small business owner to a corpor…
I'm just starting out this term. I can give you a little bit of what I have been dealing with however. I have discovered it is easier for me to read for a few hours then write for an hour then I need to stop and move onto something else. When I do s…
This weekend I attended a day-long conference open to the public on the Pompeii show at the Smithsonian's National Gallery of Art. Five academic papers were given in a small auditorium on aspects of Roman art and life. It was really my first academi…
I've been thinking about what it takes to stand out from your peers. For some, it's intellect - prodigious brilliance. For others, it's hard work, sheer volume of productivity. And then there's personality: the sparkle in your eyes when you speak ab…
First let's examine the idea of time management. Some of us are tortoises and others are hares. I always worked only 2 hours a day on actually writing when I was a full time graduate student. My husband, on the other hand, would sit 8-10 hours a day…
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- Professorial Lecturer - The George Washington University
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- http://www.OTHconsulting.com
About your virtual adviser, Diane Harris Cline, Ph.D.
I'm Diane Cline, BA Stanford, Ph.D. Princeton. I have had an unusual career path. I have held tenure at two different universities in two different disciplines (History, then Classics). I've been a Visiting Associate Professor or tenure-track and tenured professor at an historically black university, three state colleges, and two private universities. I published a book with OUP, held a Fulbright and several NEH grants; organized a major conference. After 9/11/2001, feeling that the U.S.A. needed all the help it could get, I worked for the government in the Dept. of Defense for 4 years. I resigned in January 2008 and since then have been teaching one class a semester as an adjunct professorial lecturer while starting my own company as an entrepreneur: Over The Horizon Consulting, LLC. I now help organizations use visual thinking to solve complex problems and innovate by stimulating creativity.
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Dear friends,
Sometimes life gets in the way of best laid plans and intentions. We had a death in the family in mid-April that turned our lives inside out, and now I will be traveling until mid August. At that time I will make a decision about whether to re-energize this site or go dark. Thank you for your patience.
With Best Wishes, Diane Cline
Sometimes life gets in the way of best laid plans and intentions. We had a death in the family in mid-April that turned our lives inside out, and now I will be traveling until mid August. At that time I will make a decision about whether to re-energize this site or go dark. Thank you for your patience.
With Best Wishes, Diane Cline
Posted on July 4, 2009 at 10:08pm —
On Transparency and Engagement in the Academy
I participated in Government 2.0 Camp, an Un-Conference held this past weekend in DC. About 350 government workers, scholars, new media gurus, consultants, and intereste… Continue
Posted on April 3, 2009 at 11:30am —
Boring Conference Papers: A Pet Peeve
This weekend I attended a day-long conference open to the public on the Pompeii show at the Smithsonian's National Gallery of Art. Five academic papers were given in a small auditorium on aspects of Roman art and life. It was really my first academic Classics conference in quite a… Continue Posted on March 24, 2009 at 10:00am —
Remarkable Graduate Students Win
I've been thinking about what it takes to stand out from your peers. For some, it's intellect - prodigious brilliance. For others, it's hard work, sheer volume of productivity. And then there's personality: the sparkle in your eyes when you speak about your subject, the excitement that's contagious when you discover a new idea. When it comes to getting the majority of academic teaching… Continue
Posted on March 20, 2009 at 9:21am —
Are you a Purple Cow, a Tortoise, or a Hare?
First let's examine the idea of time management. Some of us are tortoises and others are hares. I always worked only 2 hours a day on actually writing when I was a full time graduate student. My husband, on the other hand, would sit 8-10 hours a day with it. I finished a year sooner than he did. How?
The dissertation was always on my… Continue
The dissertation was always on my… Continue
Posted on March 16, 2009 at 2:30pm — 2 Comments
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- At 6:49am on March 24, 2009,
George Selmer said…
- Thanks for the welcome Diane!
You asked what my project was:
I'm working on/struggling with (depending on the day, the time and which way the wind is blowing) a PhD which is titled (at the moment): 'Writing Material: Surface, Substance, Medium'. I'm making an argument for the materiality of writing and 'testing' Derrida's contention that the archive produces, as much as records, the event (or as Hillis Miller has more recently put it, that 'the medium is the maker'. I'm doing this by making two case studies of different writers in different time periods of 'archival upheaval' - when technologies of writing and recording were going through radical changes.
And you asked what I was looking for from the group? I suppose just some moral support, and knowing that I'm not the only one out there tenuously holding on to sanity!
- At 8:59am on March 9, 2009,
KJ Rodgers said… - Thank you for the invitation to this intriguing group. I hope that I will be able to assist the members with valuable information and learn as much as possible while doing so.
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This community is for graduate students and the professors who care about them. I created it out of a desire to create a space where grad students can share their common experiences and where professors can offer advice. Many advisers are simply too busy or unable to advise students on the issues that don't have to do with the content of the dissertation.
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