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 t…[Read more]

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]

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…[Read more]