Your Skills Are Not Transferable
At least, not in the way you might think. Ashton Merck (PhD ’20, History) shares her take on “transferable skills” after a year of job searching.
Category: Perspectives
Making the Most of Duke, Summer 2021
What’s available for your academic and professional development across Duke this summer? Ed Balleisen, Vice Provost for Interdisciplinary Studies, provides an overview for PhD students who would like to explore beyond their core research agendas.
Bringing Allyship and Activism into the Community College Classroom
Takeaways from a Mellon-funded collaboration between Duke doctoral candidate Caiomhe Harlock and Durham Tech professor Jason Moldoff.
Getting past “Alt-Ac”
When you say you want an “alt-ac” career, what do you really mean? And how can you find it?
The Ten Million Dollar Question (Academic Job Searches, 2020)
Just how bad will the academic job market be this fall?
What Spaces Do You Need?
This reflection springs from a series of pandemic summer conversations I had with Duke doctoral students, and a key takeaway: We need three spaces in which to do our best work.
Cultivating Versatility as a Future Faculty Member
If you thought “versatility” was only relevant for nonfaculty job seekers, think again.
Team-Teaching the Humanities at a Community College
The opportunity to team-teach with a Durham Tech faculty member provided doctoral student Maggie McDowell with unusually rich and multifaceted pedagogical training.
Navigating Hierarchical Relationships in Graduate School
Not sure how to ask your advisor for something you need? Some tips on managing up and showing up.
Reflections on My Summer Internship at UNC Press
History PhD student Siobhan Barco reflects on how a self-designed summer internship with UNC Press broadened both her academic and professional horizons.