Hi everyone! A couple of jobs that have come across my radar recently:

1. UCHRI is hiring a Research Communications Manager: https://uchri.org/news/uchri-is-hiring/.

2. The CUNY Graduate Center is hiring an associate director of its writing center:…[Read more]

Hi everyone!

The MLA is looking for a development coordinator. This is more or less an entry level position and (if I am honest) it probably does not pay great, but it would be a good way to get your foot in the door of the development world (much of which does pay extremely well). I would think of it as a postdoc.

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I’ve just uploaded two PDF’s to the Files section of jobs that were recently posted to Versatile PhD.

One is a 50% position at UC Merced that involves providing logistical support for a grant that builds community partnerships and graduate mentorship in the interdisciplinary humanities. (I imagine they might be willing to supplement the other 50%…[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]