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posted 27 Mar 2020 by mayhplumb | tags: #covid-19 #personal #fieldwork #mays-dissertation
There are many things to write about COVID-19 and how it’s impacting graduate students right now. It’s overwhelming. I struggle to find words. The words I’ve found are about research travel, so that’s what I’m writing about now.
dissertating in the time of coronavirus: pic.twitter.com/zJ373BDKIs
— panic! at the dissertation (@polumechanos) March 25, 2020
The Endangered Language Documentation Programme (ELDP), one of the major funding agencies of linguistic fieldwork, announced on March 20 that they will not be reviewing applications submitted during the 2020 cycle:
[...read more]posted 02 Jul 2019 by mayhplumb | tags: #fieldwork2019 #personal
I’m home in Austin now. My 2019 fieldwork is complete.
Fieldwork is complicated for me, as I imagine it is for many researchers. It is simultaneously the best part of my job and the most stressful. Research in the field is hard, and by the end I’m mentally exhausted. Traveling is hard for me, and usually after a month I’m emotionally exhausted. But overall, spending time in Oaxaca is one of the greatest blessings of my life (I wouldn’t do it if it didn’t make me happy). This post is a collection of things I love about Oaxaca, drafted slowly over the past five weeks.
[...read more]posted 13 Jun 2019 by mayhplumb | tags: #fieldwork2019 #personal #self-care
This summer is my fifth research trip to Oaxaca, and over the years I’ve developed a few ways to remedy stress and homesickness. To be clear, I love Oaxaca. It is a pleasure and a privilege to come here every year. But fieldwork is hard, and because the essence of my research is so tied up in my daily life, I need to be really conscious about taking breaks and de-stressing.
Some of my self-care is in the little things that I pack. I always bring some nail polish, because it encourages me to take little moments for myself.
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