Hello everybody! My name is Nicole, and I just received my Ph.D. in English and Comparative Literature with a certificate in Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies from Columbia University in May 2018. Right now, I’m a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Brown University’s Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women. I still spend a lot of…[Read more]

I’ve recently starting compiling a Connected Academics reading list. On the list are the following:

Designing the Professional by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans (muscle your way past the class assumptions and the design thinking cultishness and there is excellent advice)

Not for Profit by Martha Nussbaum (not sure this is her best book but I think…[Read more]

The office of the dean of the graduate school at Princeton has a new position open for a professional development program specialist with a deadline of 1 October.

This job will report to Amy Pszczolkowski, Assistant Dean for Professional Development and friend of Connected Academics.

Hi everyone! I’m Stacy Hartman, and I’m the Project Manager of Connected Academics at the MLA. I got my PhD from Stanford in German Studies in 2015 and moved to NYC to start with the MLA a week later. I’m currently working on an edited volume around the topic of transforming graduate education called Mission Driven: Reimagining Graduate Education…[Read more]

Hi all!

My name is Brian and I’m a PhD candidate at Rutgers University and a Lecturer in Italian at Penn State University. I’m interested in the public humanities and I’m a huge believer in the way in which shared human experience and cross-cultural exchange can develop and improve community relations, especially in the fully digital age of the 2…[Read more]