Tell us about yourself:

Name: Erica Moiah James
Title: Assistant Professor, Department of the History of Art and African American Studies and Director of Undergraduate Studies for the Department of African American Studies, Yale University (2011-present)
Previous Job: Founding Director and Chief Curator of the National Art Gallery of the Bahamas (2003-2011)
Current City: New Haven
PhD, Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Duke, 2008
MFA, Painting and Drawing, University of Chicago, 1994
BA, Urban Studies and Architecture, Vassar College, 1992 (more…)

Tell us about yourself:
I received a Master of Arts in Liberal Studies (MALS) from Duke Graduate School in 2010 and am currently a Master of Public Policy Candidate at the University of Chicago Harris School, a DACOR Fellow, former International Affairs Staff Writer and newly appointed Executive Editor of the Chicago Policy Review. I am also serving as Student Advisory Board Member of the newly launched Center for Policy Entrepreneurship at the Harris School which is a critical initiative to help students master the politics of policymaking. (more…)

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Nichole Theresa Gleisner
PhD, Romance Studies, Duke University, 2011
BA, Comparative Literature, Boston University, 2003
Current City: New Haven, CT
Current Job: Freelance translator; Poetry Editor for New Haven Review; adjunct instructor in French, World Languages and Literatures Department, Southern Connecticut State University
Family:
Husband: Tadhg Dooley
Children: Josephine, 5; Conall, 2; Finnian, 5 months (more…)

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Name: Marianne Eileen Wardle
Title: Andrew W. Mellon Curator of Academic Programs, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University
City: Durham, NC
PhD, Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Duke University, 2010
MA, Brigham Young University, Art History, 1997
BA, French and Art History, Utah State University, 1992

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Jeremy Allen Smith. PhD, Musicology, 2008
MA, Theology and the Arts,  Regent University, 2003
BMus, Music Theory and Composition, University of South Carolina Honors College, 2000
Current city: Oberlin, OH
Current Job: Special Collections Librarian and Curator of the James and Susan Neumann Jazz Collection, Oberlin College Conservatory Library

What professional or career plans did you have in mind as you were completing your graduate degree?
I went to graduate school because I wanted to be involved in knowledge production and dissemination. Beyond that I didn’t have a specific career plan. I basically came to Duke trying to be as open as I could to different career options. Part of that was because of the diversity of interests I had. Another part of it was pragmatic. I was at Duke from ’03 to the end of ’08, and during that time I saw a lot of smart and talented people completing their degrees but not getting jobs. I was determined that was not going to be me. (more…)