Ashley Bozian, Ph.D. is an Adjunct Professor of History at the Department of History at St. John’s University. Her monograph based on her dissertation entitled Gender and the Sexualized Body in Medieval Armenia is under contract with Palgrave Macmillan.
How My Dissertation Went Terribly, Wonderfully Wrong
When I arrived at St. John’s University to begin my PhD in history, my plan was to be a modernist. In my application, I had enthusiastically proposed to study modern perceptions of Middle Eastern women. I labored under this plan for two full academic years, all the while fulfilling my coursework requirements. One afternoon, I […]