{"id":12998,"date":"2019-01-04T12:00:43","date_gmt":"2019-01-04T12:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/humansciences\/?p=12998"},"modified":"2023-10-12T20:04:58","modified_gmt":"2023-10-12T20:04:58","slug":"so-youre-writing-a-dissertation-part-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/humansciences\/2019\/01\/04\/so-youre-writing-a-dissertation-part-4\/","title":{"rendered":"So you&#8217;re writing a dissertation, Part 4"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t\t\t<div class='panopto-iframe'>\n\t\t\t\t\t<iframe \n\t\t\t\t\t\tsrc='https:\/\/temple.hosted.panopto.com\/Panopto\/pages\/embed.aspx?id=388c1f5d-2048-4968-b87d-aeae01733577&amp;start=0'\n\t\t\t\t\t\twidth='720'\n\t\t\t            height='405'\n\t\t\t            frameborder='0'\n\t\t\t            allowfullscreen='true'\n\t\t\t            allow='autoplay'\n\t\t\t\t\t><\/iframe>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">On October 14, 2011 I interviewed the Religion Graduate Student (RGS) for the fourth time, so she had now been working on her dissertation for a year and a half. Her project was still moving in fits and starts. Over the summer she had gone through a rather rough stretch, in which she entertained a lot of doubt and uncertainty about the overarching theme of her work. After reading her 50 page first chapter in the middle of the summer, her advisor John Raines suggested that she was not \u201cwriting where her passion is\u201d. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Acknowledging this, RGS went back to texts on globalization that she was most interested in &#8212; by Stiglitz, Sachs, Sen, and Wallerstein &#8212; and began reexamining her ideas. The chapter had looked at the second wave women\u2019s movement from which religion had been expunged, but it included no references to globalization. The books on globalization made no reference to feminism and religion. She began \u201clooking for the gaps\u201d in the conversations on feminism, religion, and globalization and she returned to the Nationwide Women\u2019s Program (NWP) archive to see if these sources might provide some explanation. She found that the notion of progress seemed to be embedded into each of these narratives in important ways. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">By the time we met RGS had realized that she would probably end up using very little of the 50 pages she had submitted during the summer. On the other hand, she had a good fall schedule that left her free on Tuesdays and Thursdays and she was getting up each and every morning to work on her dissertation between 6 and 8. Though she had not written a lot since the summer, she was ready to push ahead. The \u201cfull body dissertation\u201d routine she had tried to establish when she began in early 2010 had flagged a little: for exercise, she was walking now instead of running because, as she explained, it was harder to talk herself out of walking. She was now hoping to finish her dissertation within the next six months. \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">(I found myself wondering if she had passed through that \u201cdark night of the soul\u201d that all seekers of knowledge encounter just before the dawn.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">(Listen to previous interviews: <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/humansciences\/2018\/01\/11\/so-youre-writing-a-dissertation-part-1\/\">Part 1<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/humansciences\/2018\/03\/05\/so-youre-writing-a-dissertation-part-2\/\">Part 2<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/humansciences\/2018\/05\/09\/so-youre-writing-a-dissertation-part-3\/\">Part 3<\/a>)\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/library.temple.edu\/about\/staff?search=rowland\">&#8212;Fred Rowland<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On October 14, 2011 I interviewed the Religion Graduate Student (RGS) for the fourth time, so she had now been working on her dissertation for a year and a half. Her project was still moving in fits and starts. 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