Academic Affairs: a Report From the Front Lines

When I started graduate school in the mid-1990s, the delirium of political correctness was only beginning to ebb, and the academy was still hypersensitive to issues of sexual harassment and gender bias. So when I began my history Ph.D. at University of the Elite, I worried about the workload, financial support, and the usual sorts of first-year anxieties. But it never occurred to me to worry about my male professors' throwing themselves at me. As it turned out, my already challenging doctoral

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