{"id":756,"date":"2016-03-04T17:17:41","date_gmt":"2016-03-05T01:17:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/scholarycommunications\/?p=756"},"modified":"2024-04-18T13:51:00","modified_gmt":"2024-04-18T20:51:00","slug":"phds-embrace-alternative-dissertations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/scholarlycommunications\/2016\/03\/04\/phds-embrace-alternative-dissertations\/","title":{"rendered":"PhDs embrace alternative dissertations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Chronicle of Higher Education | Vimal Patel | February 28, 2016<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"dropcap\">N<\/span>ick Sousanis has scored some wins lately.<\/p>\n<p>After taking an academic risk to use an alternative form for his dissertation \u2014 a comic book about visual thinking \u2014 he successfully defended it in 2014 and earned his doctorate in interdisciplinary studies from Columbia University.<\/p>\n<p>The dissertation was published by Harvard University Press. Several professors now assign the book. And perhaps most satisfying to Mr. Sousanis, last month he received a national <a href=\"https:\/\/proseawards.com\/winners\/\"><u><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">award<\/span><\/u><\/a>, from the Association of American Publishers, typically reserved for more-traditional academic tomes.<\/p>\n<p>For more on the article see: <a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/article\/PhDs-Embrace-Alternative\/235511?cid=trend_au&amp;elqTrackId=36afd9af09234dcb9bd9a05930acb32d&amp;elq=624bfe339f8b40b88b88e50f85a29216&amp;elqaid=8148&amp;elqat=1&amp;elqCampaignId=2597\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/chronicle.com\/article\/PhDs-Embrace-Alternative\/235511?cid=trend_au&amp;elqTrackId=36afd9af09234dcb9bd9a05930acb32d&amp;elq=624bfe339f8b40b88b88e50f85a29216&amp;elqaid=8148&amp;elqat=1&amp;elqCampaignId=2597<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chronicle of Higher Education | Vimal Patel | February 28, 2016 Nick Sousanis has scored some wins lately. After taking an academic risk to use an alternative form for his dissertation \u2014 a comic book about visual thinking \u2014 he successfully defended it in 2014 and earned his doctorate in interdisciplinary studies from Columbia [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3752,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,11],"tags":[63,66,61,714,62,64,65],"class_list":["post-756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-publishing","tag-academe","tag-changing-culture","tag-digital","tag-dissertation","tag-jobs","tag-nontraditional-dissertations","tag-tenure-and-promotion"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/scholarlycommunications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/scholarlycommunications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/scholarlycommunications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/scholarlycommunications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3752"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/scholarlycommunications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=756"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/scholarlycommunications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3962,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/scholarlycommunications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756\/revisions\/3962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/scholarlycommunications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/scholarlycommunications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/scholarlycommunications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}