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America's Graduate Adviser: A Conversation with Leonard Cassuto

Release Date: 03/25/2024

America's Graduate Adviser: A Conversation with Leonard Cassuto

GradFUTURES Podcast

Join Leonard Cassuto (author of Academic Writing as if Readers Matter (forthcoming), The New PhD and The Graduate School Mess, among many other books) and Ph.D. student Hellen Wainaina to discuss graduate education's past, present, and future. Their wide-ranging conversation touches on graduate student-centered graduate education, mentorship, academic employment, teaching in a global context, writing for the public, tenure, PhDs as "information specialists," academic freedom (and academic responsibility), how universities can help prepare graduate students for a range of careers, and much...

Finding Fulfillment in France: A Conversation with Natalie Berkman *18

GradFUTURES Podcast

Join Natalie Berkman *18 and Ph.D. student Hellen Wainaina for an engaging and personal conversation about how priorities can shift during graduate school, and how a supposed plan "B" can turn out to be a plan A.

New Philosophies for Graduate Education: A Conversation with Barry Lam *07

GradFUTURES Podcast

How might we imagine the tenure track in ways that account both for individual preference and for societal impact? In what ways is the landscape for Ph.D.s changing, and how might graduate students best navigate this changing landscape? Join Barry Lam *07 and Ph.D. student Hellen Wainaina for an engaging and personal conversation about the ways they are rethinking what a Ph.D. can be. You'll be encouraged to center your own strengths, values, and preferences, and you'll hear firsthand how academia's relationship to publicly-engaged scholarship is changing--and why it must! Led by...

Telling the Scientific Story: A Conversation with Jason McSheene *15

GradFUTURES Podcast

In our third episode, Hellen talks with , a Medical Science Communications Specialist at Meditech Media. Jason earned his PhD from Princeton’s . While at Princeton, he created and co-hosted a podcast, “” with his peers to have honest, authentic conversations about their professional perspectives and aspirations. Jason talks about fulling his purpose, to champion education, equity, and empathy, through a myriad of professional and personal opportunities: “Something that I have stumbled upon and that people, much wiser I am, have known for a while is: you don’t need to...

Graduate Education: A Conversation with Sarah-Jane Leslie *07

GradFUTURES Podcast

We are joined by , Class of 1943 Professor of Philosophy and former Dean of the Graduate School, to talk about the founding vision of GradFUTURES and to address the misconception that doctoral training is only about preparing students for academic positions in universities. “Too often doctorate education is seen as a value only in training the next generation of professors,” Leslie elaborates. “Actually, it is valuable in so many more ways.” Rather than view going into careers beyond the academy as a failure or a “lesser” pursuit, Leslie emphasizes the need for diverse career paths...

Episode 1: Author, Humanist, Entrepreneur: Ann Kirschner *78

GradFUTURES Podcast

In this inaugural episode, we talk to Ann Kirschner *78, University Professor at The City University of New York, author, and entrepreneur. Ann reflects on the unexpected turns her career has taken since earning a Ph.D. in English at Princeton. From working in the early days of cable television to becoming the first digital strategist for the National Football League, where she launched and , Ann weighs in on the value of "knowing what you know," understanding the value of graduate education beyond the academy, and the...

[GradFUTURES Podcast] Season 1 Trailer: "Broadening the Impact of the PhD Within and Beyond the Academy"

GradFUTURES Podcast

Our podcast centers on the futures of PhDs: both those in training at Princeton, and Princeton graduate alumni who are in and beyond academia. We tell the professional development stories of graduate students, graduate alumni, and those who partner and collaborate with them!

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Join Leonard Cassuto (author of Academic Writing as if Readers Matter (forthcoming), The New PhD and The Graduate School Mess, among many other books) and Ph.D. student Hellen Wainaina to discuss graduate education's past, present, and future.

Their wide-ranging conversation touches on graduate student-centered graduate education, mentorship, academic employment, teaching in a global context, writing for the public, tenure, PhDs as "information specialists," academic freedom (and academic responsibility), how universities can help prepare graduate students for a range of careers, and much more!

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