Canadian anthropologist Grant McCracken, AM’76, PhD’81, has built an unconventional career as an observer of American culture.

“A certain messiness” marked the halting evolution of racist imagery in the decades after slavery’s abolition.

USO concertmaster Samantha Fan, AM’12, shares what she listens to when she’s off the job.

How can we better prepare PhD students for nonacademic careers?

Students often continue to collaborate with professors after earning their degrees. Sometimes, as in these four examples, those relationships move beyond collegial to true professional and personal friendships.

Sociologist Kristen Schilt explores gender differences that shape academic career decisions.

For the late Mexican history scholar Friedrich Katz, research “was a type of pursuit.”

Amid a gathering storm, students grapple with 1960s turbulence.

Readers sound off on Dialogo past issues.