Grad Student Workshop
Graduate Student Workshop with ACS Alumnae
Friday, March 22, 2024 | 11:00 A.M. - 2:30 P.M.
Bowen-Thompson Student Union 315
11:00 - 12:00
PATHWAYS TO PUBLISHING:
Join Dr. Emily Lynell Edwards, Assistant Prof. Digital Humanities, and Robin Hershkowitz, Ph.D., nonfiction book coach, for a publishing workshop. Learn about opportunities to share your research both in traditional academic venues and beyond in popular and public outlets. Publishing is core to pursuing a position in both an academic and alt-ac career. You’ll leave this workshop with knowledge of the pathways to publishing, dispel some publishing myths, and identify some outlets suited for your work. We’ll also cover how you can center publishing in your job search.
12:15 - 1:00 - LUNCH
1:15 - 2:30
NAVIGATING THE JOB MARKET:
Join Jacqueline Patrice Hudson, PhD, Robin Hershkowitz , PhD, and Emily Lynell Edwards, PhD, for a moderated panel discussion on navigating the academic and alt-ac job market. We’ll discuss networking, informational interviews, and job applications and how to optimize your job search, providing audiences with a sense of the multiple pathways a job search can take towards landing the right position. This session will include time for Q&A.
Emily Lynell Edwards, a 2021 graduate of the American Culture Studies Doctoral Program at BGSU, is an Assistant Professor of Digital Humanities and Educational Technologist at St. Francis College in Brooklyn, NY. She currently serves as co-director of the grant Digital Humanities Across the Curriculum (DHAC), funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). She is also a General Editor at Digital Humanities Quarterly (DHQ). Her research focuses on the intersection of digital media, technologies, and platforms, and race, gender, and politics in global contexts. Her work has appeared in journals such as New Media + Society, Communication, Culture and Critique, and Glocalism: Journal of culture, politics and innovation. Her book, Digital Islamophobia: Tracking a Far-Right Crisis, has come out with De Gruyter in the fall of 2023.
Robin Hershkowitz, Ph.D., received her Master's in Popular Culture in 2018 and her doctorate in American Culture Studies in 2023 from Bowling Green State University. Her dissertation focused on ritual performance in televised comedy roasts. Notable publications include “Seeing Double: Collecting Sweet Valley High” in The Journal of American Studies and “Will You Accept This Job? Labor, Love, and Bachelor Nation,” co-written with Dr. Emily Edwards for Post 45 Contemporaries.
During the pandemic, Robin refocused on developing plans for finding work outside of academic, completing certificates in both data analytics and project management. After training with the premier book coaching organization, Author Accelerator, she began coaching academics who wish to publish their work for popular audiences.
During her time at BGSU, Robin taught Introduction to Popular Culture and worked in the Office of the Graduate Dean, as well as working for the national Popular Culture Association. Prior to earning her doctorate, Robin worked as a manger and project analyst at the University of California Berkely for 10 years.
Robin continues to find opportunities to explore and research popular culture history. Her works in progress include a history of music videos, modern camp aesthetics, and representations of labor in reality television. She resides in Nashua, NH and enjoys reading both literary and genre fiction, and Bravo reality shows.
WEBSITE: nonfictionbook.coach
Jacqueline Hudson, PhD, a 2021 graduate of the American Culture Studies Doctoral Program at BGSU, is an independent museum professional and historian with experience in the museums and historic preservation fields. Dr. Hudson has written scholarship on the fields in publications such Henrietta Wood: The Enslaved Woman Who Sued for (and Won) Reparations, Discovering Activism and Advocacy in Historic Preservation Through My Grandparents’ Furniture, a blog on jazz music and Chillin' Like It’s 1986: Successes, Setbacks, Philosophical Considerations in the Immersive Rec Room Space of Growing Up X that will appear in Exhibition magazine in Spring 2024. She also produced exhibitions on social, musical, cultural, and historical interventions in the United States and consulted on three historical markers in the state of Ohio.
She has earned a doctoral degree in American Culture Studies and a graduate certificate in public history at Bowling Green State University (BGSU) in Bowling Green, Ohio. She previously worked at the National Blues Museum, National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, the Jerome Pop Culture Library, and the National Museum of African American Music. She worked briefly as a historian for the National Museum of American History and Visit Annapolis and Anne Arundel County. Lastly, Dr. Hudson is currently an online adjunct instructor for Cultural Anthropology and Ethnic Studies at Bowling Green State University - Firelands campus.
Updated: 03/15/2024 09:33AM