![]() ![]() ![]() Take Miami as an example, where 47% of all businesses are Latino-owned. My dissertation examined what makes starting and maintaining a business easier or harder for Latino entrepreneurs in different American cities. ![]() “Take a Walk” is not my favorite song of the past decade, but it is the song that kept reminding me that the topic was worth writing about. Certainly the subject of my dissertation was not inconsequential at all. Trust me: as bitter and self-deprecating post-graduate students might be about their research (see previous paragraph), none of us start out planning to write something inconsequential. The claim that 90 percent of academic papers go uncited is mostly untrue, but it is true for my dissertation, and I have the gaping void of a Google Scholar search return to prove it. ![]() It is arguably my most important professional accomplishment of the decade, and also arguably entirely inconsequential. In December 2018, I officially got my PhD, because my dissertation was done: written, revised, defended, revised again, approved, copied, formatted, distributed, carefully archived, accepted as an actual work of scholarship. In the summer of 2010, when I took a leave of absence from my PhD program, my dissertation was a helpless non-thing without a subject. ![]()
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