First steps in my dissertation!

I'm super excited that I've started to look for material related to my dissertation. Now that I'm looking at the available programs, had I known more clearly what I wanted to research I probably should have applied for a program at the OII or more in sociology, but really I have no background in that. So I'm just going to have to use my humanities know-how and general pluck to get this done.

I'm going to try to keep track of my progress so I know what I did and when I did it. Some accountability is always a good thing.

Today I:

Found a dissertation supervisor! I'm really excited about it; she's one of my professors, around my age, obviously really smart, and she seemed really interested in my topic.

Began to look up books that might be useful. Interestingly, a lot of the research on gender, the internet, and community formation is from the late 1990s. I wonder why.

Emailed the OII to see if I can get approved to use their library. Many of the books that look useful are owned by the university, but mostly in the OII library.