The Chronicle of Higher Education

Happily Teaching 4 Classes

By SCOTT SMALLWOOD

If you told Matthew Redinger when he got his Ph.D. that a decade later he would be a tenured professor, living in Montana, he would have called it a dream come true. He couldn't have imagined the path that would take him there.

When he graduated, in the spring of 1993, he was the first among his classmates in the history department at the University of Washington to get...

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