The Recovering Academic

The Recovering Academic

How many first-generation students were not the first?

Reading the silences in my grandfather's life

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Joshua Doležal
Mar 21, 2023
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My grandfather, Rupert Schertel, circa 1940.

Soon after I left academe, I found myself probing my family roots. It was a way of feeling less alone, imagining my journey as a kind of emigration that ec…

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