{"href":"https://api.simplecast.com/oembed?url=https%3A%2F%2Fnew-books-in-higher-education.simplecast.com%2Fepisodes%2Fthe-connected-phd-part-two-mEkXW14g","width":444,"version":"1.0","type":"rich","title":"The Connected PhD, Part Two","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/8e40fd63-083d-4b15-bc17-db5f44fce69c/993692a7-c50d-479f-902d-16eacde57685/2d5a12325f02b41866081a58d8d7827a.png","thumbnail_height":300,"provider_url":"https://simplecast.com","provider_name":"Simplecast","html":"","height":200,"description":"How can PhD programs prepare graduate students for future paths beyond academia? This episode explores:\n\nThe positive effect on students when they are prepared to graduate with multiple career options.\n\nWhy most jobs for graduating students will be located outside of academia.\n\nHow students can build support networks outside of their own program.\n\nThe importance of graduate student internships.\n\nTaking a broader view of what constitutes a “dissertation,” a “project,” and a career.\n\n\nOur guest is: Dr. Alyssa Stalsberg Canelli, who is the Assistant Dean of Academic Affairs at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Brandeis.\nOur co-guest is: Anna Valcour (she/her) is currently a Ph. D. student in Musicology at Brandeis University while simultaneously earning her M.A. in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. She holds a M.M. in Voice from the University of North Texas, a B.M. in Vocal Performance, and a B.A. in History from Lawrence University. Her research interests include witchcraft and demonology in Lieder, cultic groups and music, vocal pedagogy, representation in opera and its staging, and voice-based analysis. She is currently the Project Lead for the Connected PhD and is also interning with the African and African American Studies for the creation of their newsletter and alumni collective. Last year, she researched insular plainchant as an assistant under Dr. Karen Desmond. In addition to her scholarly pursuits, Anna is a professional opera singer. She has been a Resident Artist for the Dallas Opera, Toledo Opera, Cedar Rapids Opera, Opera MODO, Ann Arbor Opera, and Main Street Opera.\nOur host is: Dr. Christina Gessler, a historian of women and gender.\nListeners to this episode may also be interested in:\n\n\nBeing Well in Academia: Ways to Feel Stronger, Safer and More Connected, by Petra Boynton\n\n\nThe Field Guide to Grad School, by Jessica McCrory Calarco\n\n\nDegrees of Difference: Reflections of Women of Color on Graduate School, by Kimberly McKee and Denise Delgado, eds.\n\n\nYour PhD Survival Guide: Planning, Writing, and Succeeding in Your Final Year, by Katherine Firth. Liam Connell, and Peta Freestone\n\n\nPutting the Humanities PhD to Work: Thriving in and beyond the Classroom, by Katina Rogers\n\n\n\nImagine PhD, created by the Graduate Career Consortium\n\nThe Field Guide to Grad School podcast\n\nThis podcast on protecting your wellbeing in graduate school\n\nThis podcast on finding good alt-ac jobs\n\nThe podcast on dealing with rejection so you can grow your career\n\n\nWelcome to the Academic Life! On the Academic Life channel we are inspired and informed by today’s knowledge-producers, working inside and outside the academy. Missed any of our episodes? You’ll find more than 100 of the Academic Life podcast episodes archived and freely available to you on the New Books Network website."}