Jennifer Polk

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• 8-5-13
  

  Jennifer Polk: "Recent PhDs Need to Have Their Confidence Boosted"

  by David Austin Walsh

  The academc job market remains in the doldrums. Recent PhDs continue to outstrip new positions, and the adjunctification of higher ed. in general -- and historians in particular -- continues unabated. It's not surprising, then, that a growing contingent of recent PhDs are standing athwart academic history yelling 'stop!'