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Hey Academics, Please Stop Calling Me an “Independent Scholar”

September 26, 2017 Megan Kate Nelson 32 Comments

I didn’t know how much I hated the term “independent scholar” until people began to use it to describe me.…

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Posted in: Megan Kate Nelson Filed under: academia, academic conferences, American Historical Association, artists, independent scholars, journalists, Organization of American Historians, scholarship, Society of Civil War Historians, Southern Historical Association, writers

Notes from the Writing Life: To Conference or Not to Conference?

May 4, 2016 Megan Kate Nelson 2 Comments

As I pack my bags to go to the Western Association of Women Historians conference in Denver, I ask myself:…

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Posted in: Megan Kate Nelson Filed under: academic conferences, Society of Civil War Historians, Southern Historical Association, Western Association for Women Historians, Western Historical Association, Writing

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