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With changes in the academic job market and patterns of institutional hiring and teaching assignment, many scholars argue that there are valid reasons to reexamine the traditional dissertation. While there are “reasons for our investment in the dissertation monograph,” including the demonstration of abilities to conceptualize, design, and execute important studies in the field (Smith, 2010b), the need to examine the shapes of dissertation research in practice has emerged. In fact, Smith (2010b) argues that, beyond time to degree, “ethical reasons” undergird a reexamination of approaches to traditional dissertations, including human and intellectual diversity, digital media and computer technologies, and skills development of faculty (Smith, 2010b) and future employees in nonacademic and academic positions alike.