Originally Posted by geekette (Post 948991)

(bumpity bump for a comment and request for update)

One of my best friends from university spent the better part of 10 years working on his Master's and Ph.D in anthropology. This included boatloads of coursework, tons of reading, two comprehensive exams, writing the thesis and the dissertation and defense of the dissertation. I flew in from another city where I was going to law school to attend his defense. What I remember about it now is how much I wanted to melt into the wall, how much arguing there was between my friend and some of the members of the committee and how we stood out in the hall after the defense and listened to them argue (loudly) some more. In the end, he passed his defense with some cosmetic changes designed to assuage one of the committee members who had done work in the same country 35 (!) years previously.

So, based on that, I don't know that these doctorates of theology awarded by the University of South Africa measure up. But I should note that a ThD is rather different than a PhD and might actually be expected to be somewhat more "narrow."

However, what I'd like to know is if DB has finished this degree yet? I've seen him referred to by others as Dr. DB in places, but as far as I know, the only doctorate he has is a juris doctor (law degree). I have one of those too (don't use it) and nobody calls me Dr. Geekette. As it is, when someone calls me Mrs. Geekette, I think they're referring to my mother.