Off Campus: Humanities Scholars In Alt-Ac Careers: Recent Episodes
Kino
A podcast celebrating alt-ac careers, higher education, and the humanities. Each episode features a guest who has completed substantive postgraduate education in the humanities and who currently works in an alt-ac career. By listening to their stories, this podcast aims to shed light on life beyond the academe, what scholarship can do in the broader world, as well as how graduate training in the humanities helps or fails to help us prepare for the path off campus.
In this episode, I interview Dr. Hannah Apert-Abrams about her transition from completing a PhD in comparative literature to being a program specialist at the National Endowment for the Humanities. We talk about how awesome librarians and archivists are, the benefits of seeing humanities as a collective, the unpredictability of the job market, and what exactly is (are?) the digital humanities.
Dr. Apert-Abrams' personal website: https://halperta.com/
Her open access work book, Finding Your Purpose, here: https://halperta.com/shalperta%20press/purpose/
The Academic Support Network at the Humanities Commons: https://hcommons.org/groups/academic-job-market-support-network/
You can email the podcast here: offcampuspod@gmail.com
No longer on Twitter, but you can find me on Mastodon: @kinozhao@fediphilosophy.org
Music credit: Robert John - Changes
In this episode, I interview Rachel Taylor about her past research studying trance/possession rituals in African Diaspora religions and neo-paganism and Heathenry and her current career as a senior principle organizational change consultant at Collaborative Solutions (which, by the way, is hiring; https://www.collaborativesolutions.com/careers). We talked about loving academia but also knowing its reality, and about the importance of learning how the world works.
You can email the podcast here: offcampuspod@gmail.com
Also on Twitter: @OffCampusPhDs
Music credit: Robert John - Changes
In this episode, I interview Dr. Stuart Theobald, chairman of the financial research and consulting firm Intellidex, about the value he sees in a philosophy PhD, and the challenges of working while in graduate school.
You can email the podcast here: offcampuspod@gmail.com
Also on Twitter: @OffCampusPhDs
Music credit: Robert John - Changes
In this episode, I interview A Zhu about her transition from graduate school in communications to working as an administrator in higher ed. We share our experiences with heavy workload, vague expectations, blurry work-life lines, lack of positive reinforcement, the feeling of inefficacy... and the false belief that we are in it alone.
You can contact A Zhu at law.history.2010@gmail.com if you'd like to have an informational interview with her.
You can email the podcast here: offcampuspod@gmail.com
Also on Twitter: @OffCampusPhDs
Music credit: Robert John - Changes
In this episode, I interview Bethany Parsons, a classicist working to improve diversity, equality, and inclusion on the college campus.
You can email the podcast here: offcampuspod@gmail.com
Also on Twitter: @OffCampusPhDs
Music credit: Robert John - Changes
In this episode, I interviewed Dr. Neal Hebert, a theater historian-turned-high school teacher.
You can email the podcast here: offcampuspod@gmail.com
Also on Twitter: @OffCampusPhDs
Music credit: Robert John - Changes
In this episode, I interview Dr. Nathan Fulton, a philosopher-turned-semantic architect currently working at Indeed.com.
Books mentioned in the podcast:
- Heather Hedden: The Accidental Taxonomist
- Dean Allemang & James Hendler: Semantic Web for the Working Ontologist
- Panos Alexopoulos: Semantic Modeling for Data
You can email the podcast here: offcampuspod@gmail.com
Also on Twitter: @OffCampusPhDs
Music credit: Robert John - Changes
00:00 Intro
00:51 Grad School
08:47 Transitioning into Alt-Ac
20:02 Ontologist at Cycorp
29:21 Semantic Architect at Indeed
39:10 Learning More About This Path
46:43 General Advice on Alt-Ac
In this episode, I interviewed Dr. Polo Camacho, a philosopher and bioethicist currently working as a Program Manager and Health Ethics Education Promoter at the Center for Practical Bioethics in Kansas City.
You can find Dr. Camacho here: https://www.practicalbioethics.org/polo-camacho/
You can email the podcast here: offcampuspod@gmail.com
Also on Twitter: @OffCampusPhDs
Music credit: Robert John - Changes
0:00 Intro
0:52 Grad School
4:24 Fellowship at the Spencer Museum of Art
8:36 Transitioning into Alt-Ac
14:25 Current Work at Center for Practical Bioethics
26:54 A Typical Work Day
29:53 Learning More About This Path
34:52 General Advice on Alt-Ac
36:44 Ending