Professionalization Workshops
Graduate students Katie Egging and Jessica Isaac

Upcoming Workshops
  • Job Market / Campus Visit Workshop

This workshop, originally scheduled for Tuesday, April 8th, will be rescheduled in the near future!

This workshop will focus on how to prepare for the job market and/or the campus visit. We will discuss what
grad students can learn from the recent job visits, as
well as any other advice that our participating panelists may have.  The participating professors are Katie Conrad, Giselle Anatol, Anna Neill, and Deb Olin Unferth.

Please contact the members of the Professionalization Workshop (Andy Anderegg and Samantha Bishop Simmons) if you have any suggestions for future workshops for 2008-2009.
 
Previous Workshops
 
  • Conferences and Networking

Tuesday, November 13th--Topics included deciding which conferences to choose, making contacts, writing proposals for conferences, and answering questions after presentations. Our panelists included Professors Philip Barnard, Frank Farmer, and Laura Mielke.

  		 Professors Frank Farmer and Laura Mielke discuss conferences and networking.
 
   
Professor Michael Johnson expounds on selecting committees
  • Selecting Committees

Monday, October 22nd--Issues included selecting committee members for exams, theses, and dissertations, and proper (and effective) interaction with members of the committee. Our panelists included Professors Byron Caminero-Santangelo, Amy Devitt, Dorice Elliott, Richard Hardin, Joe Harrington, and Michael Johnson.
   
Professor Geraldo de Sousa discusses the ins and outs of academic publishing
  • Academic Publishing
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    Wednesday, April 25th--Issues covered included choosing appropriate journals, searching for editing jobs, converting the dissertation into a book, etc.  Our panel consisted of Professor Iris Smith Fischer, Professor Phil Wedge, Professor Geraldo de Sousa, and Professor Mary Catherine Davidson.

     

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