By Rebbecca
The podcast currently has 27 episodes available.
Your community--nourish it and it will nourish you.
In the capstone episode of PostDoctoral, Dr. Cynthia Estremera Gauthier shares her perspective on cultivating a community that will support and sustain you during the PhD program and as you consider future career tracks. Our conversation follows Cynthia's "Aha!" moment to the advice and encouragement she received from her academic and personal support systems, then to her current position as Director of Racial Equity and Engagement for a strategy firm.
Cynthia's story, inseparable from the mission of this podcast, reaffirms the central role community plays in your pivot.
From the PostDoctoral community to you: enjoy!
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Dr. Cynthia Estremera Gauthier is an educator, humanist, expert facilitator, and equity practitioner. She leads the Equitable Community Engagement service area as the Director of Racial Equity and Engagement at Strategy Arts. Cynthia has a superior record of supporting the development of coalitions that work to solve societal issues nationally and across the Greater Philadelphia region. Her focus is on strategies of inclusivity and advocacy that empower Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC), women and those who are financially insecure. She has presented at local and national conferences to share strategies for how nonprofit and government agencies should equitably engage historically underserved communities and is actively supporting clients in implementing equitable community engagement practices. Cynthia specializes in safe space facilitation and in creating diverse, inclusive and equitable initiatives that amplify the voices of marginalized peoples. Her expertise of institutionalized racism spans more than 10 years across sectors, and she previously taught extensively about the Black and Latinx experience in America, identity development, white privilege, and racism. Prior to teaching and consulting, Cynthia worked in local politics and in nonprofit roles in Philadelphia. Cynthia has authored several pieces in blogs, books, peer-reviewed journals, and has been featured in podcasts like UCHRI’s “Voices of Diversity” and “PostDoctoral” and documentaries like “Uhuru: Rooting Our Voices.” Cynthia holds a B.A. and a M.A. from Penn State University and Villanova University both in English and a PhD.in English and Africana Studies from Lehigh University. Cynthia is a writer, mother, and runner, and likes to dedicate her free time to exploring new places to travel and eat with her husband and boys.
Oh, the places you'll go, Humanists!
Follow the many career adventures of Shannon Clute, humanities PhD-turned-marketing-guru-turned-higher-ed-innovator, and learn how one prolific and enjoyable side project changed his track forever.
Because: why live only one career life when you can live nine?
Enjoy!
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Dr. Shannon Clute is Director of The Hatchery, Emory Center for Innovation. His career has been evenly divided between academia and industry, and in both sectors he has worked at the crossroads of innovation, brand strategy, media, and instructional design to launch numerous scalable edutainment initiatives that aim to drive broad engagement while serving a greater good. In 2005, he and Dr. Richard Edwards launched Out of the Past: Investigating Film Noir—the first film analysis podcast and among the first academic podcasts—which went on to be featured on iTunes, broadcast on Australian Radio National, and downloaded over 1,500,000 times. He also created a series of four innovative multimedia edutainment courses at Turner Classic, which enrolled over 70,000 learners and drove more than 300M organic Twitter impressions.
Most recently, he served as Sr. Director, Brand and Communications for the Division of Alumni Affairs and Development at Cornell University. Previously, he held several positions with Turner Classic Movies, including: Director, Business Development and Strategy, where he was tasked with building a cross-functional and collaborative culture of innovation to foster creativity and entrepreneurship in response to market disruption; Director, Marketing and Editorial, where he was tapped to build the marketing vertical and lead integrated marketing strategy, planning and campaigns. Before his time in industry, Dr. Clute was Assistant Professor at Saint Mary’s College of California, and Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Kentucky, where he taught courses in French and Italian language and literature.
Clute holds a BA in Italian from the University of Colorado Boulder, and MA and PhD degrees in Romance Studies from Cornell University
What if we changed the post-academic career narrative? What if the Plan B career actually felt like a step in a brave new direction, not another step down a beaten--and beaten down--path? What if we sidestepped our fears and transformed them into agency?
Agency.
That's the theme of the second half of my interview with Natalie Berkman, PhD in French carving a path for herself, of her own design, at the intersection of academic management, ed tech, and self-directed scholarship. Enjoy the second chapter of Natalie's postdoctoral choose your own adventure story, where adventure gives way to agency.
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Natalie Berkman is a higher education specialist and award-winning scholar, currently working as the Directrice pédagogique (Academic Manager) at SAE Institute Paris, a creative media college that specializes in audio, film, and video game production. With almost a decade of experience in pedagogy, curriculum design, research, mentoring, and academic administration, she is also currently consulting with ViaX and Crimson Education.
When does the desire for a TT job surrender to the grim reality of the academic job market and need for personal fulfillment, and when it does, what happens to that desire? Does it disappear entirely, or does it just take on another form--a select-as-you-go brand of scholarship? Is the space between desire and surrender really the only path, or does another, of one's own design, exist at their convergence?
My conversation with Natalie Berkman, PhD in French literature, explores this topic by way of her own transition from the academy to a world of new, previously unimagined opportunities, that successfully unites desire and surrender.
Enjoy!
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Natalie Berkman is a higher education specialist and award-winning scholar, currently working as the Directrice pédagogique (Academic Manager) at SAE Institute Paris, a creative media college that specializes in audio, film, and video game production. With almost a decade of experience in pedagogy, curriculum design, research, mentoring, and academic administration, she is also currently consulting with ViaX and Crimson Education.
Welcome to the second half of my conversation with Rob Pearson, Assistant Dean of Professional Development and Career Planning in the Laney Graduate School at Emory University.
The first part of our conversation found Rob heeding the siren call for stability and rootedness, which he did by exploring other career paths within the academy.
In today's conversation, listen closely for Rob's implicit--yet, clear-eyed--message that each one of us has the opportunity to accept life not as it should be or could have been, but as it is. Such insightful advice for any stage of life and career development!
Enjoy!
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Rob Pearson is a musicologist by training and a champion of graduate education who is dedicated to preparing graduate students for the range of career options available to them. Currently, Rob serves as the Assistant Dean of Professional Development and Career Planning in the Laney Graduate School at Emory University. Prior to coming to Emory, Rob served as a faculty member in musicology at various academic institutions. Rob earned a PhD in musicology from Brandeis University in 2011.
The PhD job search may land you near and far--then near and far again. With all of this uprootedness, what happens when you want to put down roots? Rob Pearson did just that, and it changed the course of his career for good. This is part one of his story, from itinerant musicologist to leading voice in graduate career services.
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Rob Pearson is a musicologist by training and a champion of graduate education who is dedicated to preparing graduate students for the range of career options available to them. Currently, Rob serves as the Assistant Dean of Professional Development and Career Planning in the Laney Graduate School at Emory University. Prior to coming to Emory, Rob served as a faculty member in musicology at various academic institutions. Rob earned a PhD in musicology from Brandeis University in 2011.
When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.
Sure. Fine. We've all been making lemonade recently.
What about slowing down to actually enjoy the lemonade?
Some thoughts about where I've been during my break from podcasting, where I am, and the stories I hope to share with you in the months ahead, best enjoyed with a tall glass of lemonade.
"My personality is not one of sitting in a library. I’m very much engaged with the world."
Enjoy the second half of my conversation with freelance journalist and humanities PhD Alice Driver.
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Alice Driver is a bilingual journalist based in Mexico City. Her narrative non-fiction, feature writing & audio work have appeared in National Geographic, Time, CNN, Cosmopolitan, Outside, Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting, Longreads, and NBC News. In 2017, Driver was invited by the Nobel Women’s Initiative to join Nobel Laureates Jody Williams, Shirin Ebadi, Tawakkol Karman, and Rigoberta Menchú as they traveled to Guatemala and Honduras to highlight the work of human rights activists in indigenous communities. In 2019, she worked with Chinese neorealist painter Liu Xiaodong and his documentary team along the US-Mexico border, and the results of that work, including the catalog for the exhibit that Driver is writing, will be shown at Dallas Contemporary museum in 2020.
Alice Driver is a bilingual journalist based in Mexico City. Her narrative non-fiction, feature writing & audio work have appeared in National Geographic, Time, CNN, Cosmopolitan, Outside, Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting, Longreads, and NBC News. In 2017, Driver was invited by the Nobel Women’s Initiative to join Nobel Laureates Jody Williams, Shirin Ebadi, Tawakkol Karman, and Rigoberta Menchú as they traveled to Guatemala and Honduras to highlight the work of human rights activists in indigenous communities. In 2019, she worked with Chinese neorealist painter Liu Xiaodong and his documentary team along the US-Mexico border, and the results of that work, including the catalog for the exhibit that Driver is writing, will be shown at Dallas Contemporary museum in 2020.
"You can make it all make sense."
Wise words from the second half of my conversation with Connie Moon Sehat, a history PhD now working on the front lines of computing and democracy.
Enjoy!
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Connie has focused on the intersections of computing and democratic life, whether dissertating in German history, developing International Space Station software, or working on projects like NewsFrames at Global Voices (newsframes.globalvoices.org), the New Orleans Research Collaborative (nolaresearch.org), ELMO (election, human rights, and health monitoring at getelmo.org) and most recently serving as Research Community Lead of the Credibility Coalition (credibilitycoalition.org). Connie has previously worked for The Carter Center, Emory University, and The Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University.
The podcast currently has 27 episodes available.