Academic Job Search: Tips for Nailing the Virtual and On-Campus Interviews for Grads/Postdocs in the Arts, Social Sciences & Humanities
September 20, 2019 from 3:00 pm to 4:30 pm
Location: Cooper Library 309 (main campus)
Presented by:
Dr. Travers Scott
He is currently serving as Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Communication Department within the College of Behavioral, Social and Health Sciences.
Educational/training background
I like to say that I owe my life to the study of communication, as my parents met in communication classes at Baylor University in Waco, Texas. I was born there and grew up in cities across the state, where I explored communication through creative writing, filmmaking, and theater. I left Texas to attend college in Chicago, where I studied communication through the media of film, video, sound, performance, and writing. I went on to publish two novels and a short story collection, and perform across the United States. Professionally, I working in the advertising industry as a copywriter and brand strategist. This work led me to Portland, OR and Seattle, WA, where I left advertising to study digital media communication at the University of Washington, then to my PhD studies in Los Angeles at the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at USC. Since then I have been happy to incorporate these diverse personal and professional experiences to my work at Clemson. I currently live in nearby Greenville, with my partner, Mike McGirr, a food systems activist, and two cats who double as research assistants.
Dr. Cynthia Haynes
She is currently serving as Director in the Department of Rhetorics, Communication, and Information Design within the College of Architecture, Arts and Humanities.
Educational/training background
Dr. Cynthia Haynes is Director of First-Year Composition and Professor of English. Her research interests are rhetoric, composition, multimodal pedagogy, virtual worlds, critical theory, computer games studies, and the rhetoric of war and terrorism. She co-chairs the RCID PhD program Games/Cinema Colloquium. Her recent book, The Homesick Phone Book: Addressing Rhetoric in the Age of Perpetual Conflict (Southern Illinois University Press, 2016) won the 2017 Rhetoric Society of America annual book prize. She is currently working on a book manuscript, Unalienable Rites: The Architecture of Mass Rhetoric.
Dan Harding
He is currently serving as Director of Graduate Architecture Programs in the Department of Architecture within the College of Architecture, Arts and Humanities.
Educational/training background
Dan Harding is an Associate Professor of Architecture and Community Design+Build and serves as the director of the Community Research and Design Center (CR+DC) and the Architecture + communityBUILD graduate certificate program (A+cB) striving to ensure that South Carolina communities intently embrace the social, economic, and environmental pillars of sustainability. In 2013, DesignIntelligence named Harding as one of the thirty most influential design educators in the country, citing the impact of his community-centric work.