Doctoral Student Panel and Luncheon: Navigating the Academic Job Market

Please join us for food, conversation, and networking.  This year’s doctoral student panel will include panelists at various stages of their careers to discuss navigating the job market.  Sean Joe is currently the Benjamin E. Youngdahl Professor of Social Development at the Brown School of Social Work at Washington University in St. Louis.  Dr. Joe has previously held faculty positions at the University of Michigan and University of Pennsylvania after completing a post-doctoral appointment.  Megan Holmes is an Assistant Professor of Social Work in the Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences at Case Western Reserve University.  Dr. Holmes teaches a doctoral level course that prepares students for a successful academic job search.  Anne Hughes is an Associate Professor at the Michigan State School of Social Work and is the author of the award-winning article “Being the Diversity Hire: Negotiating Identity in an Academic Job Search.”  Byron Powell is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Prior to transitioning to UNC in 2015, Dr. Powell was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of Medicine.  Gina Fedock is an Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration and graduated with her PhD from Michigan State University in 2015.  The conversation will be moderated by current doctoral students, Karla Arroyo (University of Utah) and Ericka Lewis (Washington University in St. Louis).