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Hi everyone!
Let me be the first to share the news about my new (and now official, since I passed my trial period!) job:
A few months ago, at the end of my PhD at Princeton, I found myself facing a choice with an obvious right answer, but which was psychologically rather difficult (as I’m sure you can all imagine). I had been offered two great postdocs, at respectable institutions (one of which in my hometown even!), both 2 years. I also had a campus visit for a tenure-track position. Despite all that, I decided to turn all that down and move to Paris to live with my husband, and so I accepted my only job offer there, which was as an “Academic Coordinator” at the SAE Institute.
I didn’t really know what to expect. During the interviews, I had been told that they mostly wanted someone very organized and that the job was essentially administrative. However, when I arrived on campus, I was told that my title was actually directrice pédagogique and that this was a management position! In fact, I’m the #2 at the school! To top that off, this school is all about creative media, offering accredited degrees in Audio Production, Film Production, and VFX/Game Art Animation. It boasts an impressive number of world-class recording studios, cutting edge film equipment, and all the latest animation softwares. The school isn’t without its problems and it’s been a bit of an adjustment to find myself having to discover what’s going wrong, take the lead, and manage the academic team to resolve the problems I find, but it’s actually a great adventure! I can’t imagine I would have been happier in a 2-year postdoc in Buffalo.
Also, did I mention I get to go to the Cannes festival with the film students?
Anyway, I can’t wait to read everyone else’s victories and cheer you on from Paris! Let me know if any of you are in the area, and I’d be happy to meet up!
Natalie
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Hi everyone! My name is Natalie and I just completed my PhD at Princeton in French literature (specifically hi to Brian — remember me from Urbino? Fun times!). At the end of my program, I had a few postdoc offers and had a campus visit scheduled for a tenure-track job in Alabama, but I really wanted to move to Paris to live with my husband, so took a job as an Academic Coordinator at the SAE Institute in Paris! I’ll write more about it on the victories page, but let’s just say I’m loving it!
Looking forward to hearing all about everyone else’s career paths, learning from you all, and cheering you on from Paris!
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Hello all!
I just finished updating my profile and boy, did it feel good to say that I recently completed my Ph.D.! That said, since I’m in a transitional period right now, I was a bit unsure of what to list as my academic affiliation and addresses/email addresses on my CV and on the site, but soon I will have new official ones for my job in Paris, so I will just have to remember to update this again in July.
Here is the link: https://hcommons-staging.org/members/nberkman/.
Have a great weekend, everybody!
Natalie
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Hello all! My name is Natalie and I just defended my dissertation on literature and mathematics at Princeton University a little over a week ago! I’m in a bit of a transitional period — I recently accepted what seems like the coolest job in Paris at the SAE Institute, but my dissertation committee also insists that I try to publish my dissertation as a monograph. So I’m hoping to use this summer to start my new job and maintain an academic web presence and try to figure all of this out. Looking forward to meeting all of you!
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