Abstract
This essay offers a sketch of Professor Allan Leslie Combs’s mentorship to doctoral students. It represents one student’s experience of the latter part of Combs’s long career as a psychologist, consciousness researcher, academic, speaker, author, and mentor. The paper is written from a first-person perspective by one of Combs’s very last doctoral students, with details taken from her initial journey into the doctoral program, through the beginnings of dissertation research and proposal defense, until the time Combs left this world. Some of the details contained herein may be recognized from the author’s presentations given at Combs’s retirement and memorial gatherings. The essay is written both to memorialize Combs’s superb contributions to consciousness studies, through his students and through his own research, and to provide a template of his noteworthy methods for other doctoral mentors. Keywords: Allan Leslie Combs, mentor, student, doctoral, consciousness studies
Recommended Citation
Ziemke, K. (2025). Portrait of a Mentor. Journal of Conscious Evolution, 22(2). https://digitalcommons.ciis.edu/cejournal/vol22/iss2/9
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