Anar Parikh, PhD 🇵🇸
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a digital encampent for former academic denizens who no longer hold formal institutional affiliations but move in deep solidarity with the students, faculty, and workers challenging US academia's support and complicity of genocide and imperialist profit 🇵🇸
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That lady talking about "why you would want to be an activist when you could lead an industry with your SAT scores?" is, in fact, the entirety of savarna Indian-American culture.
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Buying stamps : saving democracy :: cancelling plastic straws : reversing climate change
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not everyone pointing to indian food as the case-in-point cuisine of [more] delicious vegetarian while ignoring that vegetarianism in India is about as politically & morally charged as meat consumption in the US 🤷🏽♀️
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"It was a silly age, twenty-five; too old for teenaged dreaming, too young for settling down. Every corner was a possibility and a dead end. Work? At what? Marriage? Work and marriage? Where? Who? What can I do with this degree?" Toni Morrison, Tar Baby (1981)
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So lets get this straight. Academic job cover letters include paragraphs about dissertation, next project, proposed courses, teaching philosophy, and diversity. THEN you also include a research statement, teaching statement, diversity statement, and sample courses in the packet.
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@fizapirani
i literally just texted about how this girl was describing rapidly changing police formations sounding scared as shit
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I would just like to share that after a full month of religiously making myself do dissertation writing from 9am-12pm, I wrote 23 pages in 2.5 weeks and just submitted a draft introduction to my advisor.
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honestly one of the most inconvenient side effects of graduate school
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the extent to which people use TedTalks as a pedagogical tool is truly disconcerting to me
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Anar Parikh, Anthropologist, No Longer In Training (PhD)
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this is basically the premise of
@IfBooksPod
, and the takeaway here is that most popular social science is essentially arguments for conservatism/imperialism/capitalism/neoliberalism (all right-wing) even if it pretends not to be
what's your (non-right wing, too easy) book that you think would be better if it didn't exist? that book that induces so much false confidence in its readers that it feels like people who read it know less than they would have if they didn't (because now they 'know' bullshit)?
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Indian Matchmaking, among other shows about Indian Americans/Indian diaspora fail to acknowledge that just because we are racial and religious minorities doesn’t mean we don’t have our own systems of oppression and bigotry. My own thoughts + a collection of tweets/threads (1/n):
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idk if you're an anthro department sending emails about "resuming" in-person fieldwork this summer maybe also mention that it's worth thinking about what is best for the communities you study
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I am so fucking lucky my parents have implicitly supported my humanistic and activist commitments, but otherwise, that lady is saying out loud wha is presumed in the community i was born into
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genuinely moving to hear anthropologists read the names and ages of martyred Palestinians. Tens of pages filled front and back, margin to margin.
#aaacasca
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My favorite anthropologists are the ones who hate anthropologists
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is parents storing things in the oven and then you preheat without checking and you have like 5 burning hot pans at 400* an immigrant kid thing?
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for anyone who needs a primer:
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i’ve now heard of multiple TT jobs that only long/short-listed people who already have TT jobs elsewhere, and 1) its gross; 2) if that’s the case, be clear about what you want in the ad. I will not be taking questions at this time.*
*DO NOT ENTER MY MENTIONS WITH EXPLANATIONS
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Here it’s! Very very excited to share that I am joining the editorial team at American Anthropologist, as the Associate Editor of the podcast—Anthropological Airwaves. This is a dream & I am so pumped to keep
expanding anthro knowledge production through podcasts and audio.
Very excited to announce that Anar Parikh
@anarparikh
is joining the American Anthropologist --THE JOURNAL editorial team as Associate Editor, Anthropological Airwaves Podcast. Pitch your possibilities~
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how do people keep track of email AND slack AND their dms AND the group chat AND their text messages
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I can finally share that in September I will be joining Asian Americans Advancing Justice Atlanta (
@AAAJ_Atlanta
) as a policy analyst and 2022-2024 ACLS Leading Edge fellow. It's hard for me to express in words exactly how uncanny this development is on several levels:
ACLS announces the 2022 Leading Edge Fellows, supported by the
@MellonFdn
. Early career PhDs will join nonprofit organizations across the United States to advance social justice initiatives:
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I don’t know who needs to hear this but South Asians are among the largest undocumented populations in the US. There’s probably one degree of separation between you (a documented person) & someone in your community lives in a state of immigration precarity. The stakes are high.
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I can’t imagine being a first year grad student learning about all the ways yours department and institution are messed up from piecing together random emails and zoom happenings instead of from other grad students at the bar or the grad lounge. Our whisper networks are suffering
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hilarious thing about the entire "have publications to get IN to graduate school" discourse is that I, famously, have an entire PhD and still have zero (0) publications, because, surprise, I never learned how
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if you’re only going to use one clove of garlic you may as well just not
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I asked folks for suggestions on ethnographies they like, and got a ton of responses. I haven't decided which one I'll read, but I wanted to put them all in one place. Here are the books folks recommended (most are written by women and/or BIPOC anthropologists) .
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The disconnect between people on the academic job market now and those who haven’t really been on the market since before the 2008, and really in the past 5-7 years is stark and honestly verges on, dare I say, an ontological problem.
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i need some reassurance that you can write an anthro dissertation without coining any "new" terms
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i hate every single thing about how covid is unfolding in India, including how the baseline disparities between the Global North/West & Global South/East means we can barely get to talking about how this is state-sanctioned genocide of poor & minoritized people within India
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“Racism and Fascism” Toni Morrison (1995) in THE SOURCE OF SELF-REGARD (2019)
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grad schools always have workshops about managing your online identity; I would like to write, with some other academic WOC what this looks like in our experiences
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I hate reading accounts of caste & class privileged India-born Indians writing about their “novel” encounters with race upon arriving in the US. The surprise at being the subject of discrimination is so uninteresting.
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it 👏🏽is 👏🏽cruel 👏🏽to 👏🏽set👏🏽January👏🏽1👏🏽 as👏🏽a👏🏽deadline👏🏽for👏🏽anything
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y’all, i think i am going colon-less for my dissertation title
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can’t believe we’ve been doing *this* for inching on eighteen months and institutions remain steadfastly allergic to absolutely anything that resembles long term planning
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I just want to reiterate that a lot of how were treating each other in professional contexts right now is the product of a system that hasn’t allowed us to halt or pause or alleviate despite an absolute devastating pandemic and political milieu.
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I do not, I repeat, do not want people to recommend that academic consultant to me. It’s unethical to monetize something that should be free and accessible to everyone. It’s especially unethical to demand exorbitantly priced services to people who are underpaid and precarious.
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Anyways, we’re also way past the time for “helpful” stress management and health guides. Stay the fuck home, wildly reduce your expectations for capitalist production. freeze rent, abolish prisons, delete ICE, gtfo my inbox with”tips for destressing and managing COVD19 anxiety.”
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i need a realistic/accurate pop culture depiction of what anthropologists do
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I finished a full, complete chapter draft today friends.
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Imagine thinking spending 60 dollars on several books of stamps is going to stop fascists from REMOVING sorting machines in the service of election fraud.
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My last piece of news for today is that I got a teaching fellowship IN CHARLOTTE this summer. I get to go home and get paid and teach my own class on immigrant lives in the US. Holy freakin crap.
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Reviewer: uR reasons 4 doing this proJekt aren't serious eNuf
Me: "the ability of many racially minoritized anthropologists to understand daily encounters with racism in marginalized communities emerges from necessity rather than simply ethnographic curiosity" (Rosa & Diaz 2019)
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@dpholmes
You do know that these people are literally doing this on top of writing a dissertation/peer review or book manuscript right? You know most of them are severely under compensated, right? You do know they rely on unpaid labor from partners & peers for copy editing right?
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Yesterday I observed a conversation unfold among [mostly] tenured faculty at elite American universities about “grad students seem to be angry at” and more than anything, the answers were absolutely disheartening. Many were POC faculty. 1/5
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really feeling a way about how apparently unreasonable it is that I—a single person with a grad student income—want to live by myself in a place that has a dishwasher and washer dryer that isn’t 50% of my monthly income
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I need to face my demons today, and by demons I mean the overall structure of my dissertation
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be okay with shitty sentences so you can actually finish your dissertation challenge
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Oh you’re an anthropologist?
What is your favorite culture?
Oh, you're a literature scholar?
What's your favorite book?
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it's like academia is not a viable career and nonprofits are not a viable career and corporations are not a viable career and maybe careers are just not viable period
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it’s truly bonkers how much the american public has been sold on capitalism so that it’s unfathomable or surprising to many that much of what we currently understand to be “inflation” is really just price gouging
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Btw it’s not any worse for ICE to threaten deporting international students than it is for them to deport literally anyone else. No one deserves that.
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Anyways worth noting that making fun of ADHD is *definitely* ableist, and a lot of other mental health/neurological conditions often get written off as ADHD—especially among Black kids— and becomes a justification for the school to prison-to-prison pipeline.
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the time i made a joke on here about only liking anthropologists who hate anthropologists and one of my dissertation advisors members stepped off of my committee because he couldn't, in good conscience, support someone who felt that way
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the “i did horrific thing as ethnographic method because that’s what my research participants do” flies in part because anthropological ethnography remains limited in its ability to recognize & theorize power in ways that doesn’t exoticize a [supposedly] marginalized other
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I can’t be the only one along my peers feeling a jarring sense of cognitive dissonance between knowing you are excelling at your job right now and how that has basically no bearing on my long or short-term livelihood and well-being.
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Instead of negging burnt out and & angry grad students, faculty who are also burnt out & angry about their also unfair and exploitative working conditions could, oh I don’t know, organize.
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How am I supposed to finish a dissertation when how I think about the state, rights, oppression, & belonging has changed so much since proposed the project? Feels like my academic work can’t keep up with my politics but I can’t write the original premise in good conscience.
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anddddddd faculty should assign dissertations from the department in at least one pro seminar as a way to break down and understand what dissertations are supposed to dooooooo
It should absolutely be a requirement in your PhD journey to attend several dissertation defenses.
They’re a class in itself. Dissecting how people articulate ideas in digestible ways, how to ask/answer questions, etc.
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Do White people use the word "function(s)" to talk about social events? This is very common in Indian Englishes and I have also heard AAVE speakers use it this way, but rarely White English speakers...
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sometimes pretending an email never made it out of the spam folder is the kindest thing you can do for a person
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One of the reasons my dissertation is taking so long to write is that I am only now encountering g the Black & WOC feminist scholarship I need to be able to write it. This stuff wasn’t in my qualifying exams because no one ever lead me to it, and that’s a failure of pedagogy
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the venn diagram of academic positions i’m qualified for in places i would like to live and/or have people from my kin & social networks:
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While anthropology faculty everywhere are encouraging their students to do digital ethnography, I’d like to share that at one point I desperately wanted to find a way to do a majority of my fieldwork online (mostly for mental health reasons)...
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BY THE FUCKING WAY, it’s not enough to delete the statement and the tweet
@AmericanAnthro
. Serious harm was done, and compounds other serious harms committed in the recent past that have not been acknowledged much less repaired. Do more, do better.
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This whole thing where companies and people stop doing things only after they have been exposed is not a problem of capitalism, it IS capitalism. There is no preventative care here, and barely reparations—if any—once the damage has been done.
Grindr says it will stop sharing its users' HIV statuses with two other companies, after it was discovered the app was allowing third parties to access encrypted forms of sensitive data.
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Us ethnographers have skills that we can use to support this work. Taking time to observe, letting folks get comfortable with you, & offering time and labor for their needs are what we train to do. We don’t have to be advancing our research agendas to use these skills.
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We literally let our entire sense of collective well-being come down to ONE octogenarian
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i am thinking about introducing an "ask an anthropologist" advice segment on
@AmAnthPodcast
. If you would like to help me pilot this either: 1) with a question you have; OR 2) as a potential advice giver, get in touch (in this thread, which I'll be bookmarking)
@AmAnthroJournal
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also like, WHO IS TWEETING FROM YOUR ACCOUNT,
@AmericanAnthro
? If it’s a social media intern or underpaid staffer it’s shitty that they have to bear the brunt of your irresponsible messaging. If it’s leadership we need accountability and transparency, immediately.
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Historical analysis is key to many ethnographies but i don’t feel like in was properly trained to do history for ethnography. Historical ethnography is one thing, but i’m also talking about both archival research & connecting history & ethnography.
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I’m so riled up I had to go find the interview with Ayana Young in We Do This Til We Free Us where
@prisonculture
talks about the limits of the “personal is political” brand of feminist politics (pp. 152):
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a thing all of us should know is that maybe defending our own dissertations is anti-climatic, but watching your friends and comrades and cohort-mates defend? i’ve known fewer purer joys
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Donating to mutual aid funds and community bail funds should replace “anxiety-infused quarantine online shopping.”
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Admissions pauses do not necessarily mean more support for current grad students, even if that’s been the party line 🗣🗣🗣🗣
“...since the department’s budget is being cut alongside the admissions pause, there is not necessarily more funding available for each current student...The issue is our budget is being cut at the same time our number of students is being cut.”
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ALSO, ALSO, the reason people stay in PhD programs as long as they can is because it guarantees at least health insurance and a stipend (however meager) IN A M-EFFIN NON-EXISTENT JOB MARKET
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@tressiemcphd
what i would like to know is is why they don’t have any questions about the lil kim part
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Hello everyone, I convinced my brother (who is susceptible to all kinds of moderate white man logic) to read
#ThicktheBook
, and my work in this world is nearly done:
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Give all current grad students an extra year of fellowship funding
Tenure clock extended for
@BrownUniversity
professors!
Other universities:
PLEASE follow their lead. Professors deserve their mental health and the time to attend to health, family and students.
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This is a very public announcement for everyone who follows me: if you are concerned about the well being of a student DO NOT, I REPEAT DO NOT, make reporting your concern to university admin your first step. It is harmful to students and deeply inappropriate.
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btw the reason people use twitter instead of talking people who harm them directly is because power exists & it’s safer to speak in community than it is to contact the person who harmed you directly because, see: *gaslighting* , *manipulation* other tactics for abuse and bullying
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so much of the "mananging your online identity" has to do with professionalism and self-censorship, but this is **NOT** how i have gotten the most out of Twitter as an academic
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It’s my birthday. I got the first shot today. I turned 30 this time last year just as we were beginning to understand how this virus would shape our present and future. The two are co-constitutive now.
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i sent the draft y'all🤮
super helpful & practical conclusion writing advice from
@laurenedeal
via
@ProfTmarquise
. TLDR: jot points you want to highlight for each chapter, arrange in order & write a brief summary for each, then polish. My version screams “chaotic stationary bitch.”
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Explain to me what is the point of wearing a mask in line if you and your closest 5,550 incoming first-year friends are all going to end up sharing the same spout at the water fountain anyways?
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In the case of South Asians in the US—specifically Hindu Indians in the US—these systems of oppression include caste supremacy, Islamophobia, misogyny, and stigma around anything outside of cis heterosexual normativity (2/n).
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Y’ALL, a friend woke up at 6AM on a saturday (they are on PT, dept is on ET) to missed calls from a dept that they made the long list. They want references ASAP & to do the interview on Tuesday.
Friend: “it’s my last day teaching.” Chair: “we were hoping you could show a movie”
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Y’all, three of us from my group of friends in college started PhD programs the same year. The first one of us is defending tomorrow and I couldn’t be prouder.
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having to wait until i get married to create a registry and ask people in my life to offer material support in creating a home for myself is thoroughly absurd
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i’m having a very hard time grappling with the scale of death and violence this week
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i am teaching next semester! Asian American Political Life & Contemporary South Asian American Culture at Tufts! Reading, watching, listening recommendations, welcome.
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The thing about this is that a lot of advice (academic or not) is unsolicited. Most people don’t want or need advice, they need space, care, kindness and things our neoliberalism doesn’t grant us. Advice is about navigating what exists, not imagining something different.
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Can you tell my brain was pissed when they got rid of the analogy section of the SAT two years before I took it
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It’s a lot to ask your partner to keep following you whereever your academic career takes you, but the prospect of interminable long distance relationships is deeply heartbreaking as well
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fellowship rejections i have received:
nsf grfp
wenner gren
nsf ddrig
ruth landes
ford foundation x 2 (they don’t award south asian americans, idk why i bothered)
acls dissertation
penn predoctoral diversity x3 (2/3 in the top 10)
lewis and clark x2
tons of others
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