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SUMMARY:“Looking Ahead: Academic Job Market 101, with Reflections on Hiring in E
ast Asian Studies”
DESCRIPTION:\n\nWhat sort of timeline does the academic job market opera
te on? How can you be strategic about your fields of study? How do you s
elect letter writers? What do job applications actually require? What so
rt 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 b
asics to help those considering academic careers start thinking about ho
w to set yourself up for success well ahead of time and be aware of what
the market can look like. It will also include some reflections on rece
nt hiring trends in East Asian Studies.\n\nPaula R. Curtis is a historia
n of medieval Japan and an active participant in digital communities in
and beyond East Asian Studies. She is presently the Yanai Initiative Pos
tdoctoral Fellow and a lecturer with the Department of Asian Languages a
nd Cultures at the University of California\, Los Angeles. Her current b
ook project focuses on metal caster organizations from the twelfth to si
xteenth centuries and their relationships with elite institutions. In ad
dition\, Curtis collaborates in several online projects\, including Digi
tal Humanities Japan\; an online database for digital resources related
to East Asia\; and the collection and visualization of job market data i
n East Asian Studies. She is also 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 w
orld.\n\nFor more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/looking-ahead
-academic-job-market-101/
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:What sort of timeline does the academi
c job market operate on? How can you be strategic about your fields of s
tudy? How do you select letter writers? What do job applications actuall
y require? What sort of language do they use? How can you set yourself u
p for success long before you go on the market? This talk will be an int
roduction to the basics to help those considering academic careers start
thinking about how to set yourself up for success well ahead of time an
d be aware of what the market can look like. It will also include some r
eflections on recent hiring trends in East Asian Studies.
Paula R.
Curtis is a historian of medieval Japan and an active participant in di
gital communities in and beyond East Asian Studies. She is presently the
Yanai Initiative Postdoctoral Fellow and a lecturer with the Department
of Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of California, Los An
geles. Her current book project focuses on metal caster organizations fr
om the twelfth to sixteenth centuries and their relationships with elite
institutions. In addition, Curtis collaborates in several online projec
ts, including Digital Humanities Japan; an online database for digital r
esources related to East Asia; and the collection and visualization of j
ob market data in East Asian Studies. She is also operations leader for
Japan Past & Present, a new initiative under development to
create an open-access online repository for digital resources on Japane
se Studies around the world.
For more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/l
ooking-ahead-academic-job-market-101/
LOCATION:101 Old Botany Building
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