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[deralte]

I'm designing business cards for my upcoming trip to Korea and Japan. These will be given out to academics (in archaeology and related fields) within both countries and probably at a few conferences over the next year (until I have to change them once I prelim).

So the question is, do I list my masters degrees? And if I do, do I list just one or should I put MA, MA, MA after my name? Anybody know the proper etiquette for this?

Comments

[alchemine.livejournal.com]

Normally you would list your degrees in the order you earned them (e.g., Ariana Deralte, B.A., M.A., Ph.D) but since you have three of the same degree, I would list the degree type once, and then the disciplines after it in the order you earned them (e.g., Ariana Deralte, M.A., Archaeology, Anthropology, Linguistics).

[ashfae.livejournal.com]

Bingo.

[spacelem.livejournal.com]

This seems like a perfectly sensible way to do it.

[inomniaparatus.livejournal.com]

awesome trips coming :) I agree with alchemine about the order.

[siria]

The standard I've seen in my field is to simply list your current status. So in your case, either PhD student (pre-quals) or PhD candidate (post-quals). If you're in a doctoral programme, and you're distributing these in an academic environment, that you have an undergrad and a master's degree (or are working towards one as part of the programme) is implicit. I would stick with

Name
Current Status
Institution
Contact Information

That should more than fill out the card, and if you've got an academia.edu account or something you can have the link to that and they can find your full CV there.