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Historian Alan Brinkley also chose to apply his intellectual talents to education and research instead of in consulting or government. The Dunwalke Associate Professor of American History chose to follow his doctoral work with a career in academics, but he says his decision to do so developed while he was working on his dissertation...
...reason I came to graduate school was not necessarily that I was committed to a career in academics. But the reason I finished is that I had developed a commitment to it," says Brinkley. A major source of his indecisiveness was the academic job market which, at that time, was "dwindling to the point of becoming invisible," says Brinkley, who finished his doctoral work at Harvard in 1979 and has been a professor of history since...
Some advantages to a career in academics are the freedom to do research, the rewards of teaching and a work year of only seven or eight months, Brinkley says. But he quickly adds that the lifestyle is by no means an easy...
...first time at Harvard, I'll be teaching what I like to teach and what I'm qualified to teach," said William F. Brundage, awarded a grant to teach a course on "The New South," with Alan Brinkley, Dunwalke Associate Professor of American History...
...Brinkley said that the advantage of the pairing with graduate students lies in "bringing someone into the course that will have new ideas and a perspective that is valuable...