It may not be in your case Bill but getting a PH 'all but dissertation' has driven lesser people mad.
Today many if not most dissertations contain plagiarism. They are all warehoused in Ann Arbor Michigan. I think the rules for publishing have changed. I do not have a phd so my tangential knowledge may be wrong. Seeking PHDs can be a pisser that keeps on pissing.

I did circuit board assembly at IBM back in the moonshot days until I did a TINY mistake and went back to SUC Fredonia music school.