Timeline for Is it acceptable to ask how a professor would like to be addressed through email?
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| Apr 13, 2016 at 3:41 | comment | added | JeffE | Addressing a professor by first name suggests that you're their equal. -- Yes. And this is precisely why I want students to address me by my first name. | |
| Apr 12, 2016 at 20:30 | history | edited | ff524 |
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| Apr 26, 2015 at 16:05 | answer | added | posdef | timeline score: 3 | |
| Apr 26, 2015 at 15:37 | answer | added | keshlam | timeline score: 11 | |
| Apr 26, 2015 at 15:20 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackAcademia/status/592347605289533441 | ||
| Apr 26, 2015 at 14:09 | comment | added | T K | This seems very depending on the culture of university and field. During my undergraduate forays in the USA, in Romance Languages it was always Dr. L'astnamé and in all my time in math it was always FirstName. Here in UK it's almost universally Dr. L'astnamé. | |
| Apr 26, 2015 at 11:48 | comment | added | Ben Webster | @CameronWilliams Anyone who signs their emails FirstName, and expects not to be called that is being totally unreasonable. If I'm emailing with someone I'm not yet ready to go to first names with, I sign with my full name or "-BW". (I' ve never signed an email "Dr. Webster" or "Prof. Webster", and don't intend to start now). | |
| Apr 26, 2015 at 11:20 | comment | added | user49483 | My approach to this 'problem' on email (as a grad student not an undergrad) is to start with "Dear ProperTitle LastName" on the first email and to follow that up with "Dear FirstName" if the response to the first email is signed off with FirstName and to continue with "Dear ProperTitle LastName" if they sign their name in that way (which incidentally has never happened). Whether or not undergrads should be more formal I'm not sure. | |
| Apr 26, 2015 at 10:19 | answer | added | damian | timeline score: 14 | |
| Apr 26, 2015 at 8:28 | answer | added | Frames Catherine White | timeline score: 13 | |
| Apr 26, 2015 at 8:00 | history | edited | enthu |
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| Apr 26, 2015 at 5:45 | comment | added | RoboKaren | @CameronWilliams you should have just written that as an answer. | |
| Apr 26, 2015 at 4:25 | comment | added | Cameron Williams | In my experience, you should always refer to a professor by Dr. Lastname as an undergrad. The professor might sign with their first name only but it doesn't necessarily mean they want you to address them by first name. Addressing a professor by first name suggests that you're their equal. Younger professors will sometimes prefer that their grad students call them by first name since they feel a bit uneasy about the level of formality and feel that their grad students are not really their junior in a meaningful sense. It doesn't hurt to ask, but I'd be surprised if they were okay with it. | |
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| Apr 26, 2015 at 3:43 | history | asked | Mike | CC BY-SA 3.0 |