So You’re an Undergraduate and You Want to Get Published
If you are thinking of pursing a career in academia or as a writer in general, you might want to…
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So You’re an Undergraduate Student and It’s Your First Paper
By Emma Louise Backe We’ve all been there. You’ve gone through Freshman Orientation, bonded with your dorm, combed through the…
(Crowd)Funding Like a Geek
After I wrote a post about “vexing” and then disappearing for six months, you could be forgiven for thinking that by “vexing” I mean “troll the blog by never posting.” My absence was not prompted by the lulz, however, but by needing to focus all of my attention on fieldwork for my dissertation on tabletop role-playing games. I still have some fieldwork left to do, but have finally been able to come up for air and share some of how my research has been going and how that relates to geek anthropology.
Finding a Supervisor for Graduate Studies
This post is the second of a series of two about defining a master’s degree research project and finding a supervisor. Read the first part about initial steps to follow here. Also have a look at Melissa Venable’s Should You Get a Master’s Degree? to learn about other important elements to consider.
So, you want to get a master’s degree?
You’re interested in a topic and you’d like to start a master’s degree to be able to explore it. Great! But where to begin?
Before you start filling out applications for universities, there are two very important things you need to do, the first of which I’ll address today and the second in a coming post.
1. You need to clarify what you’ll work on;
2. Decide whom you want to work with.
The Geek Anthropologist 