‘What Can You Do With That?’: Alt-Ac Careers After the Grad Degree

The CHA’s Graduate Students’ Committee invites you to a roundtable of alumni from History and Archival Sciences graduate programs who work in and beyond the academy! The three panelists will discuss their career trajectories after grad school and how the skills gained in their graduate degree(s) helped them find ‘alt-ac’ success. An informal Q&A will follow. The jump from grad school to finding a career outside of academia can be intimidating, but it doesn’t have to be! Join this webinar to hear from three experts who found industry success with History and Archival Sciences graduate degrees.

This joint event between the Canadian Historical Association and Association of Canadian Archivists will take place via Zoom on Thursday, May 14th, from 1:00-2:30 p.m. Eastern time (5:00-6:30 p.m. UTC). All are welcome. Click here to register.

Panelists:

Dr. Sharanjit (Sharn) Kaur Sandhra: Sessional faculty in the Department of History at the University of the Fraser Valley; Senior Program Advisor in the Multiculturalism and Antiracism Program at Canadian Heritage

Dr. Taylor Starr: SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of History at the University of Toronto; Research Associate at Sonderbloom

Mr. Adam Williamson: Director-at-Large at the Association of Canadian Archivists; General Council Processing Archivist at the United Church of Canada Archives

Chair:

Aino Pihlak: CHA Graduate Students’ Representative; PhD Candidate, University of Toronto