This multidisciplinary panel of doctoral students will share insights from their dissertation writing journeys. Panelists will discuss their own writing processes, challenges they have encountered, and strategies and resources they are using to advance and complete their dissertations. Whether you are just beginning your first chapter or finishing your last, you will hear how other writers approach their dissertations and takeaway insights into how you can make your own dissertation writing process successful.

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Katie Dimmery does ethnographic work on histories of art practices and ethnicity in southwest China. She is finishing a dual PhD in Anthropology and Asian Languages and Cultures, and will graduate next year.

Marisol Fila is a PhD Candidate in Romance Languages and Literatures Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Michigan. Her dissertation “Content and Form: Twenty-First Century Black Press and Articulations of Blackness in Buenos Aires, São Paulo and Lisbon” explores how the twenty-first century black presses of these three cities reveal different articulations between black/diasporic and national identities. She plans to defend her dissertation in May 2022.

John Finkelberg is a PhD Candidate in History and a Mary Fair Croushore Graduate Student Fellow at the Institute for the Humanities. His dissertation, “Becoming a Man in the Age of Fashion: Gender and Menswear in Nineteenth-Century France,” traces the production, sale, use, and representation of menswear in France from the July Revolution of 1830 to the collapse of the Second French Empire in 1870. He plans to defend his dissertation in May 2022.

Sarah Kearns is a recent graduate from the Program of Chemical Biology. She defended her thesis work characterizing “molecular road signs,” aka chemical modifications to microtubules, in December 2020. Currently, she is a freelance science writer.

Louis Cicciarelli, Moderator, Sweetland Center for Writing