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Helping our program help us with career development
My graduate career has been a bit bumpy (although whose hasn’t!), and during my 3rd-year slump, I spent a lot of time asking myself if I really wanted a PhD. By having to face this question, I realized very quickly that I had no idea what a PhD could do for me. I knew I […]
Alumni Profiles Series: Erica Moiah James
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, […]
Alumni Profiles Series: Natalya Wallin
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 […]
Alumni Profiles Series: Nichole Theresa Gleisner
Tell us about yourself: 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, […]
Getting off the tenure track: lessons from history
The Chronicle of Higher Education shared some encouraging news yesterday in what has lately been a contentious national dialogue about the futures of graduate education in the humanities, announcing a new Mellon Foundation grant to support non-academic career & professional development for Ph.D. students in history.
Alumni Profiles Series: Marianne Eileen Wardle
Tell us about yourself: 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
Alumni profiles series: Jeremy Allen Smith
Tell us about yourself: 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 […]
My name is Paul Miceli, and I have a non-academic career
It may sound like the opening greeting at an Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) meeting, and for someone with a PhD (in Social Psychology, if you’re interested), it may very well feel like it sometimes. The problem is, though, that people like me are no longer the minority in the academic realm. PhD employment reporting is far […]
What’s next?
You may have begun graduate school for a variety of reasons—a love of research, a passion to make an impact through your work on a particular topic, the chance to study with an inspiring scholar among our faculty, a career aspiration that requires a master’s or doctoral degree, or simply a recognition that a graduate […]
The Versatile PhD: your guide to the afterlife
The after(-academia-)life, that is. Maybe you’re the proactive kind of student who started preparing for life after the PhD early in your graduate school career – networking, conferencing, setting up informational interviews, and staying abreast of job market trends and placement data. Or maybe, like me, you have approached your graduate education as an end […]
