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  Credential Creep in the Digital Humanities

  By

  Amanda Gailey University of Nebraska

  Dot Porter Indiana U

  May 06, 2011

  Credential Creep in the Digital Humanities In a 1903 issue of Harvard Monthly, William James decried “ The PhD Octopus,” the disturbing trend among American colleges of requiring a PhD—even one in an unrelated field—of anyone hired to teach. The degree wa ...