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Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences

Price Center East | Muir Room 

What’s it like working outside academe? What is the true breadth of job opportunities in academia? How should you prepare? What skills and experiences are sought?  Learn from this group of successful arts, humanities and social science Ph.D.s that successfully transitioned to positions in academia and beyond.

Featuring

Professor Gordon Hansen, PhD
Professor of Economics and Director, Center on Emerging & Pacific Economies Institution
UC San Diego

Professor Hanson is the director of the Center on Emerging and Pacific Economies and is a professor of economics at UC San Diego, where he holds faculty positions in the School of International Relations and Pacific Studies and the Department of Economics.  He is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and a co-editor of the Review of Economics and Statistics. Prior to joining UCSD in 2001, he was on the economics faculty at the University of Michigan (1998-2001) and at the University of Texas (1992-1998).  Professor Hanson specializes in the economics of international trade, international migration, and foreign direct investment.  His most recent book is Regulating Low Skilled Immigration in the United States(American Enterprise Institute, 2010). Dr. Hanson earned his PhD in Economics from MIT

Christine Kelly, PhD
Graduate Student Advisor, Career Center
UC Irvine

Dr. Kelly’s career began as Instructor and Basic Course Director at the University of Maine.  After 3 years there she and her husband moved to Ohio where she was an adjunct at Otterbein University and Columbus State Community College. In 1995 she briefly explored nonacademic careers before returning to adjunct life. That experience helped prepare her for her current role.  Dr. Kelly now helps graduate students navigate their career paths, both academic and non-academic.  She credits her experiences as a long time adjunct and a career changer for giving her the insights that help her lead others through the often mysterious and confusing job search process.  She writes articles about career transitions for Ph.D.’s for Inside Higher Ed. and spoke on the topic of Non Academic Careers for Humanists at the MLA convention in January 2011 and will speak on that topic at the MLA Summer conference. Dr. Kelly earned her PhD in Communication from Purdue University.

Tatiana Sizonenko, M.A.
Curator, Museum of Making Music
Carlsbad, CA

Tatiana is a doctoral student in Art History in the Visual Arts Department at UC San Diego.  She earned her M.A. in Art History from the Leningrad State University (now St. Petersburg), Russia; and an M.A. in Museum Studies from John F. Kennedy University, Berkeley, California. Tatiana’s research examines instances of artistic exchange in context of diplomacy and politics in late Medieval and Renaissance time, the effects of humanist learning of Greek authors on image production, as well as issues related to archaism, quotation, and anachronism in Renaissance aesthetics.  She also studies the theory of new media, contemporary computer-based installations and arts that can be productively analyzed to explore the phenomenon of visual media remix in Medieval and Renaissance arts. She examines how computer-driven technologies could be used for creating interactive multimedia presentations of old masters in museum contexts. 

Tatiana is actively engaged in curatorial practice.  She curates and manages special exhibitions and permanent collections at the Museum of Making Music in Carlsbad, CA.  Prior to this position, Tatiana worked as an assistant curator of one of the major research collections of Medieval Russian art at the State Russian Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia, as well as was responsible for museum projects at Oakland Museum of CA, the Blackhawk Automotive Museum in Danville, CA, and independently curated other exhibitions in the U.S.

Patrick Patterson, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of History
UC San Diego

Patrick Patterson specializes in 19th- and 20th-century Eastern Europe, and the Balkans, with emphasis on cultural and political history, nationalism and ethnicity, and religion. He teaches courses on the history of these regions, on the historiography of modern Europe, on Islam and immigration in contemporary Europe, and on the history of the international law of war crimes and genocide. His present research projects focus primarily on consumption, business culture and advertising, tourism, and everyday life in socialist Eastern Europe; chief among these is a book project on consumer culture in those countries--Yugoslavia, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and the GDR--that managed to deliver a socialist version of the "Good Life" following WWII.  He is now embarking on a new project that addresses the relationship between political Christianity and Islam in contemporary Eastern and Western Europe. Professor Patterson earned his PhD from the University of Michigan in 2001.

Tricia Bertram Gallant, PhD
Academic Integrity Coordinator
UC San Diego

Tricia Bertram Gallant, Ph.D., is the Academic Integrity Coordinator at the University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego), and is the Immediate Past Chair for the International Center for Academic Integrity's (ICAI) Advisory Council. Bertram Gallant has extensive experience in developing academic integrity procedures and policies, working with stakeholders (from students, to faculty to administrators) on creating a culture of integrity, inspiring campus interest in and commitment to addressing integrity and ethics, managing a centralized office for academic misconduct complaints, advising faculty on teaching and classroom management, and teaching students about academic integrity. Since joining UC San Diego in 2006, faculty reporting of student cheating has increased, as has the pool of student volunteers who work with the office to educate students and faculty (see http://academicintegrity.ucsd.edu).

Bertram Gallant has also been active in the academic integrity movement at the national and international levels through the International Center for Academic Integrity as a member of its Board of Directors (2002-2007) and Chair of its Advisory Council (2008-2010). The ICAI, housed at Clemson University, is the leading organization in assisting high schools, colleges and universities in creating cultures of academic integrity. Hundreds of students, faculty and staff attend the annual ICAI conference to learn practical skills (for example, how to develop policies, educate students and faculty) and learn about the latest research on academic integrity and ethics. For more information, see www.academicintegrity.org.

As an author and speaker, Bertram Gallant has published many articles on academic integrity in the Journal of Higher Education, the Review of Higher Education, the Journal of Library Administration, NASPA, and the Canadian Journal of Higher Education, is the sole author of Academic Integrity in the Twenty-First Century: A Teaching and Learning Imperative (Wiley’s Jossey-Bass, 2008), co-author (with Stephen Davis & Patrick Drinan) of Cheating in School: What We Know and What We Can Do (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009), and editor of Creating the Ethical Academy: A Systems Approach to Understanding Misconduct & Empowering Change in Higher Education (Routledge, 2010). She has been interviewed by local and national news organizations (e.g., CNN, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Toronto’s Globe & Mail, Inside Higher Education, CBC’s The Sunday Edition, and KPBS—an NPR San Diego affiliate) and has given multiple presentations on academic integrity at national conferences (e.g., the American Education Research Association, The Association for the Study of Higher Education) and through speaking or teaching engagements with high schools, colleges and universities (e.g., American University in Cairo; California State, Sacramento; Agnes Scott College; Illinois Institute of Technology) and other education providers (e.g., Magna; PaperClip Communications).

Moderator, Craig Schmidt

Life & Environmental Sciences

Price Center West | Theater

Finding your first academic or industry position after earning your master's or doctorate can be a daunting and bewildering endeavor. To help approach this task, this distinguished panel of professors and industry leaders will offer advice and proven tips that can give you an enormous head start when you’re ready to go “On the Job Market.”  Proven leaders within fields, this panel has what it takes to excel in careers in and beyond academia. Learn about the often overlooked strategies, experiences, and sought-after skills needed to help you make a successful and affirmative choice of a career.

Featuring

Professor Nate Heintzman, PhD
Assistant Professor, Division of Biomedical Informatics
Department of Medicine, UC San Diego

Nate earned his B.A. in Biochemistry at Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, MN, and his Ph.D. in Biomedical Sciences from UC San Diego. His graduate and postdoctoral work focused on epigenetic signatures for transcriptional regulatory elements throughout the human genome, published in Nature and Nature Genetics. As a UC Discovery Fellow at the California Institute of Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2), Nate became involved in health IT and wireless health. Now on the faculty of UCSD’s Division of Biomedical Informatics, he is pursuing diabetes research that integrates genomics technologies, wireless medical devices, and clinical data systems. While a graduate student, Nate co-founded Insulindependence (a non-profit organization sponsoring fitness and recreation programs for the diabetes community) and ScholarNexus (a life science consultancy and incubator), and more recently he co-founded NanoSort (lab-on-chip flow cytometry). He enjoys running, surfing, and playing in his band.

Jake Handy, JD
Partner, DLA Piper LLP

Mr. Handy earned his BS and MS in Molecular Biology from UCSD.  He then earned his JD from California Western School of Law.  He is currently a partner at DLA Piper, one of the world’s largest law firms with offices in 30 countries.  Mr. Handy counsels life science and technology focused companies on strategic planning and the structuring of complex technology transactions.  He primarily works out of the La Jolla office of DLA Piper and resides in San Diego with his wife and four children.

Ferran Prat, PhD, JD
VP of Oncology and Women's Health, Alere, Inc.

Dr. Prat is VP of Oncology and VP of Women’s Health at Alere Inc., a Waltham (MA) based Diagnostics Company with more than $2 billion in revenues. He was previously VP of Licensing at Biosite Incorporated, a now fully owned subsidiary of Inverness located in San Diego.  Dr. Ferran obtained his BSc in chemical engineering from IQS (Barcelona), his PhD in organic chemistry from University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), focusing on the photochemistry and electrochemistry of DNA base pairs, and his JD, magna cum laude, from University of San Diego. Prior to joining Biosite in 2001, he was a management consultant with McKinsey & Co.

Lydia Roach, PhD
Environmental Consultant, Dudek

Lydia Roach earned a BA in Environmental Chemistry from Columbia University in 2004 and a PhD in Oceanography from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego in 2010.  For her PhD research, Dr. Roach employed geochemical techniques to study prehistoric climate change in California. For the past six months she has been working as a geochemist at Dudek, an environmental consulting firm in Encinitas, CA, where she investigates groundwater contamination and hydrologic balance at locations throughout California.

Nicole Harriott, PhD
Research Scientist - Medicinal Chemistry
Neurocrine Biosciences

Dr. Harriott earned her B.S. in chemistry and biology from Ashland University and her Ph.D from UC San Diego in the field of organic chemistry in 2004.  She carried out postdoctoral work in the field of natural products synthesis in the laboratories of Dr. Viresh Rawal at the University of Chicago from 2004-2006.  Dr. Harriott returned to San Diego to join Neurocrine Biosciences in 2006, and is currently a Research Scientist in the medicinal chemistry department focusing on the development of novel therapeutics. Dr. Harriott resides in San Diego with her husband and son.

Moderator, Peter Fiske, PhD

 *The PhD Conference Planning Committee is committed to attracting distinguished individuals who have successfully transitioned to careers in academe and beyond.