The Ebony Tower Syllabus
THE EBONY TOWER SYLLABUS
A list of recommended literature and media cited by our Scholar Spotlight Features.
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The Ebony Tower Syllabus: Sociology
At The Ebony Tower, we believe it’s important to deliberately read and cite the work of scholars of color. To make this process more efficient, we are organizing a comprehensive list of blackademic literature according to fields of study which you can find below. Please email us to recommend a book to our syllabus (even your own). SOCIOLOGY Alexes Harris. 2016. A Pound of Flesh: … Continue reading The Ebony Tower Syllabus: Sociology
Video: The Guide to Securing Great Recommendations
Check out The Ebony Tower’s guide to securing excellent letters of recommendation. You can read the 7 tips at https://theebonytower.com/2016/08/14/the-ebony-towers-guide-to-securing-great-recommendations/ Continue reading Video: The Guide to Securing Great Recommendations
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Introducing The Ebony Tower Podcast
Each year, U.S. universities award more than 55,000 doctoral degrees. Among degree holders, less than 15% are Black, Latinx, or Native American. Often serving as trailblazers in their communities and disciplines, scholars of color face unique challenges as they scale the Ivory Tower. Enter the Ebony Tower podcast—a resource, conversation and community for and by brilliant yet underrecognized and underrepresented scholars of color. Get to … Continue reading Introducing The Ebony Tower Podcast
Let Us Help You Unwind
Wellness and health are important to us here at The Ebony Tower.com Let us help you unwind! Podcast & Chill Semester Self Care Excercise: Running Healthy Relationships Impov & Lightheartedness Continue reading Let Us Help You Unwind
Podcast and Chill
The Ebony Tower Contributors Graduate school leaves little time to sit quietly and enjoy your surroundings. Many of us like to escape into nature, while some of us escape into Netflix. Both hiking and Netflix and chilling can be great. But they also soak up a lot of time. Whether it’s planning a weekend trip to the mountains for some fresh air, or planning a … Continue reading Podcast and Chill
11 Tips for Fall Semester Self-Care
by The Ebony Tower Contributors
Somehow it’s the end of August again, and soon we’ll be back to the daily grind of classes, meetings, too little sleep, and too much caffeine. The Ebony Tower wants to offer you some tips to maintain your sanity this Fall and to commit to your most important assignment of all: Self-Care. Continue reading 11 Tips for Fall Semester Self-Care
Why Location Matters
by The Ebony Tower Contributors
“Location, location, location”, they say in Real Estate. So it goes in PhD programs as well. Your experience in academia will be shaped by many things—the institution you choose, your cohort, the relationships you build with faculty and the location in which you wish to study. Continue reading Why Location Matters
To PhD or Not to PhD: That is the Question
by Daphne M. Penn I remember when I first decided that I wanted to pursue a PhD. It was two weeks from my 25th birthday, I was in the middle of a quarter-life crisis after my childhood bestie suddenly passed away, and as a third year elementary school teacher approaching testing season, I was a bit disillusioned with my current career. I was feeling both … Continue reading To PhD or Not to PhD: That is the Question
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