Real Life Stories from the Academic Job Search

Whether you’re planning to go on the academic job market this fall or in coming years, you will benefit from learning first-hand from recent PhDs who have successfully landed academic jobs despite the tight market. Come and hear the job search stories, strategies, and advice from recently-hired PhDs in the humanities and social sciences who will be working in a variety of academic positions after graduation.
 
Panelists include:

• Ceyhun Arslan, PhD '17, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations to begin as Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at Koc University, Istanbul, Turkey.
• Farshid Emami, PhD '17, History of Art and Architecture, to begin as Assistant Professor at Oberlin College, following a post-doctoral research position.
• Sarah Politz, PhD '17, Music, to begin as Visiting Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology at Williams College.
• Ariel White, PhD '16, Government, Assistant Professor of Political Science at MIT.