What field is my fictional grad student in, and what has she lost?

Post date: 2018-01-13 03:47:38
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I'm writing a fictional story in which the character has lost everything in a fire. Not only her possessions, but her work, which is irreplaceable – just to really put her through the wringer.

In her case, the work is a partially written PhD dissertation. Since I've never written anything like a dissertation, I'm trying to imagine what she might have lost in addition to the dissertation itself, which was about halfway drafted on her laptop (saved on an external hard drive, which is also gone). I know this will depend on her field, which I'm still trying to figure out. At first I had the notion of some kind of fieldwork – notebooks filled with handwritten notes, which I guess would make her a cultural anthropologist. But I'm not sure that feels right. In what other fields might one have accumulated irreplaceable documents or artifacts or whatever, as source material for one's dissertation? The year is 2005, and just assume that she did not back things up in any sophisticated way and that everything is really and truly is gone.
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