The following schedule reflects the sessions being offered for the 2025 conference. We will conduct four sessions: a career options panel, a tentative guest speaker, roundtables, and job market panels by discipline. Please register in advance of the conference.
8:00 am – 9:15am
Alumni Hall
Registration and Breakfast
9:15 am – 9:30 am
Whittenberger Auditorium
Welcome Remarks
David Daleke, Vice Provost for Graduate Education and Health Sciences; Dean of the University Graduate School Bloomington
Panel 1: Career Options
9:30 am – 11:00 am Whittenberger Auditorium
- Working at a Research Intensive University
Nikolaos Zirogiannis, Assistant Professor, Paul H. O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs - Working at a Regional University
Jay Howard, Dean of the Faculty, Dean of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and Professor of Sociology, Butler University - Working as a Teaching Faculty at an R1
Karolina Serafin, Director of Language Instruction, Italian, Director of Undergraduate Studies, Italian, and Teaching Professor of Italian - Working in Other Roles in Academia
Gabriel Escobedo, Assistant Dean of Community, Inclusion, and Engagement, Maurer School of Law
Featured Guest Speaker
11:15 am – 12:15 pm
Whittenberger Auditorium
- Leonard Cassuto, Professor of English, Fordham University
Lunch and Keynote Address
12:30 pm – 1:45 pm
Alumni Hall
Brian Powell, James H. Rudy Professor, Sociology
Roundtable Session
2:00 pm – 3:30 pm
Round 1: 2:00-2:40 pm
Round 2: 2:50-3:30 pm
Georgian Room
- Table 1: Grants and Funding (Social Sciences & Humanities)
Eduardo S. Brondizio, Distinguished Professor, Department of Anthropology - Table 2: Grants and Funding (Natural & Applied Sciences)
Heather Hundley, Professor, Department of Biology - Table 3: How to Get Tenure
Julia Shaw, Associate Professor of Music (Music Education), Jacobs School of Music - Table 4: Finding the Mentorship You Need
Sean Nicholson-Crotty, Director, Graduate Mentoring Center, Professor, O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs - Table 5: Writing Statements (Diversity, Personal, and Teaching)
Koji Chavez, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology - Table 6: Work-Family Balance in Academia
Rebecca Lave, Associate Dean for Social and Historical Sciences and Professor of Geography - Table 7: Early Graduate School Advice from Advanced Students
Emily Ekl, PhD Candidate, Department of Sociology; Benjamin Luczak, PhD Candidate, Department of English - Table 8: Publishing and Presenting at Conferences (Social Sciences & Humanities)
Jessica Nina Lester, Professor of Applied Psychology in Education and Research Methodology, School of Education - Table 9: Publishing and Presenting at Conferences (Natural & Applied Sciences)
Sara Skrabalak, Professor, Department of Chemistry - Table 10: Navigating Academia as International Students
Siyun Peng, Assistant Research Scientist, Department of Sociology - Table 11: Graduate Career Coaching
Brandi Smith, Director of Graduate Career Coaching, Indiana University Graduate School Bloomington
Panel 4: Navigating the Job Market
3:45 pm – 5:00 pm
- Navigating The Job Market (Social Sciences)
Panel 4A – Whittenberger Auditorium- Advice from a Hiring Perspective – Research Intensive
Sara Friedman, Professor in Anthropology and Gender Studies - Advice from a Hiring Perspective – Teaching Intensive
Jay Howard, Dean of the Faculty, Dean of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and Professor of Sociology, Butler University - Advice from a Recent Hire
Monica Nesbitt, Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics - Advice from a Post-Doc
Maleah Fekete, Postdoctoral Scholar, IU Irsay Institute
- Advice from a Hiring Perspective – Research Intensive
- Navigating The Job Market (Arts & Humanities)
Panel 4B – Alumni Hall- Advice from a Hiring Perspective – Research Intensive
Joan Hawkins, Professor, The Media School - Advice from a Hiring Perspective – Differences between Teaching Intensive and Research Intensive Universities
Michael Adams, Provost Professor, Department of English - Advice from a Recent Hire
Carlos Colmenares Gil, Assistant Professor, Comparative Literature - Advice from a Post-Doc
Ramón Resendiz, Postdoctoral Scholar, Center for Research on Race and Ethnicity in Society
- Advice from a Hiring Perspective – Research Intensive
- Navigating The Job Market (Health & Natural Sciences)
Panel 4C – Georgian Room- How to Organize and Present Research in a Job Talk
Alexandru Georgescu, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry - Advice from a Hiring Perspective – Teaching Intensive
Andrew Kehr, Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, DePauw University - Advice from a Recent Hire
Julia Kelson, Assistant Professor, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
- Advice from a Post-Doc
Sham Vera, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Biology
- How to Organize and Present Research in a Job Talk