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EASC Professional Development Lecture: Paula Curtis, "Looking Ahead: Academic Job Market 101"

Paula Curtis
November 8, 2023
5:00PM - 6:30PM
Hagerty 186

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Add to Calendar 2023-11-08 17:00:00 2023-11-08 18:30:00 EASC Professional Development Lecture: Paula Curtis, "Looking Ahead: Academic Job Market 101" The East Asian Studies Center presents: "Looking Ahead: Academic Job Market 101" Paula Curtis University of California, Los Angeles Abstract: What sort of timeline does the academic job market operate on? How can you be strategic about your fields of study? How do you select letter writers? What do job applications actually require? What sort of language do they use? How can you set yourself up for success long before you go on the market? This talk will be an introduction to the basics of the academic job world to help those considering academic careers in the humanities start thinking about how to strategize well ahead of time and be aware of what the market can look like. Have a question or topic you know you want addressed? Drop it here!: https://bit.ly/OSU23PC Download the PDF flyer here. Dr. Paula R. Curtis is a historian of medieval Japan and an active participant in digital communities in and beyond East Asian Studies. She is presently the Yanai Initiative Postdoctoral Fellow and a Lecturer with the Department of Asian Languages & Cultures at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her current book project focuses on metal caster organizations from the twelfth to sixteenth centuries and their relationships with elite institutions. In addition, Dr. Curtis collaborates in several online projects, including Digital Humanities Japan; an online database for digital resources related to East Asia; and the collection and visualization of job market data in East Asian Studies. She is presently Operations Leader for Japan Past & Present, a new initiative under development to create an open-access online repository for digital resources on Japanese Studies around the world.   Hagerty 186 East Asian Studies Center easc@osu.edu America/New_York public

The East Asian Studies Center presents:

"Looking Ahead: Academic Job Market 101"

Paula Curtis
University of California, Los Angeles

Abstract: What sort of timeline does the academic job market operate on? How can you be strategic about your fields of study? How do you select letter writers? What do job applications actually require? What sort of language do they use? How can you set yourself up for success long before you go on the market? This talk will be an introduction to the basics of the academic job world to help those considering academic careers in the humanities start thinking about how to strategize well ahead of time and be aware of what the market can look like. Have a question or topic you know you want addressed? Drop it here!: https://bit.ly/OSU23PC

Download the PDF flyer here.

Dr. Paula R. Curtis is a historian of medieval Japan and an active participant in digital communities in and beyond East Asian Studies. She is presently the Yanai Initiative Postdoctoral Fellow and a Lecturer with the Department of Asian Languages & Cultures at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her current book project focuses on metal caster organizations from the twelfth to sixteenth centuries and their relationships with elite institutions. In addition, Dr. Curtis collaborates in several online projects, including Digital Humanities Japan; an online database for digital resources related to East Asia; and the collection and visualization of job market data in East Asian Studies. She is presently Operations Leader for Japan Past & Present, a new initiative under development to create an open-access online repository for digital resources on Japanese Studies around the world.

 

Free and Open to the Public

If you require an accommodation, such as live captioning, to participate in this event, please contact EASC at easc@osu.edu. Requests made at least two weeks in advance of the event will generally allow us to provide seamless access, but the university will make every effort to meet requests made after this date. 

This event is supported by a U.S. Department of Education Title VI grant to The Ohio State University East Asian Studies Center.