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Presented By: Department of American Culture

Alternate Career Options When You're Phinished!

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Please join us for this panel of professionals with PhDs who are on alternate career tracks to academia. Come and listen to their experiences, connect with them, and learn about the different career options your PhD is preparing you for!

Dr. Sigrid Anderson is Librarian for English Language and Literature at Hatcher and a lecturer in American Culture. She holds a Ph.D. in English and American Literature from the University of Virginia and has published on American and British literature and culture, women's writing, and transatlantic print culture. She is the author of Fictions of Dissent: Reclaiming Authority in Transatlantic Women’s Writing of the Late Nineteenth Century (2010), and her manuscript, Settling the Land of Sunshine: Gender, Race, and Regional Development in California Periodicals, is currently under review.

Dr. Jessica Tollette (she/her) is Innovation for Poverty Actions’s Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion where she leads the organization’s global DEI strategy. Prior to joining IPA, Dr. Tollette was the founding academic director and professor for IE University’s Bachelor in Behavior and Social Sciences in Madrid, Spain. She has experience teaching and researching about a range of topics including: DEI, migration, education, behavioral science, and wellbeing. She has an MA and a PhD in Sociology from Harvard University.

Dr. Nicolas Sternsdorff-Cisterna is a sociocultural anthropologist who specializes in the study of science and technology, risk, and food. He is the author of Food Safety after Fukushima: Scientific citizenship and the politics of risk, with the university of Hawai’i press. He is currently a ux researcher at Meta, and was previously an associate professor in the department of anthropology at Southern Methodist University. He has a Ph.D. in Social Anthropology from Harvard University.

Register here: https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwvd-iprjgtG926ozU78VlXwfqXvruy0_LI
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