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When Do Titles Matter and Why? A Guide for Graduate Students in Political Science
Strategies for navigating graduate school and beyond, Section 2, Chapter 9
2022
Abstract
What to call your professors might be the most minor and awkward topic addressed in this guidebook. To paraphrase Woodrow Wilson, perhaps the debate is so fierce because the stakes seem so small. After all, does it really matter? Many professors are explicit in how they wish to be addressed in their course syllabi. Most professors will gently correct a student who is too formal or informal in their interactions. Surely this kerfuffle is a superficial and insignificant part of graduate student training. The truth is more complex. As recent debates over how to refer to Jill Biden given her EdD suggest, questions of honorifics are freighted with meaning (Epstein 2020; Jabour 2020). Learning how to recognize and navigate multiple expectations for formal and informal professional interactions is essential for success in graduate school and post-graduate employment. How to address professors is a perfect example of the hidden curriculum contained within any PhD program (Margolis and Romero 1988). [1st paragraph]
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- Title
- When Do Titles Matter and Why? A Guide for Graduate Students in Political Science
- Creators
- Meg K Guliford - Drexel University, PoliticsMeena Bose - Hofstra UniversityDan Drezner - Tufts University
- Publication Details
- Strategies for navigating graduate school and beyond, Section 2, Chapter 9
- Publisher
- American Political Science Association; Washington, DC
- Number of pages
- 4
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Politics
- Other Identifier
- 991022064040104721