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This is a glorious thread. It’s especially useful to read examples of collegial generosity, the kinds of small gestures it might not occur to us to make, but which mean a lot to the person on the receiving end.
I’ve been on the receiving end of a lot of kindness from senior scholars. And some of the nicest things they ever did for me at conferences was to treat me like a peer over a cup of coffee or glass of wine.
There’s often a weird disconnect in grad school: by the time we get there we’re already adults. In my case I got married the first year of my PhD and had started after a year of working at ABC News. Yet in many ways we go back to being “kids” looking for the approval of profs.
To have professors treat me as an adult at conferences gave me dignity that I sometimes didn’t feel in other contexts.
