The Many Futures of the Humanities PhD

 

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Speakers:

Dan Edelstein (Moderator)
Chair, Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages
Professor of French and, by courtesy, of History

Tim Bombosch
Change Management Consultant, M Squared Consulting
PhD in German Studies, Stanford, 1998

Tim Bombosch is a business consultant focusing on business analysis, project management, and organizational change management. He has worked in industries that include publishing, life science, education, and utilities. He completed his dissertation at Stanford University in German Studies.

Inga Pierson
High School English Teacher, Sacred Heart Preparatory
PhD in Italian Studies, NYU, 2009; former lecturer in the DLCL
Inga Pierson teaches world literature and Shakespeare at Sacred Heart Preparatory in Atherton, CA. Prior to joining the faculty at Sacred Heart, she taught for several years at Stanford, as a Lecturer in the French & Italian Department and in the IHUM, Thinking Matters, and Education as Self Fashioning programs. She also taught Italian literature and cinema at Colgate University and worked as a journalist for Corriere della Sera and i-italy.org in New York. She received her PhD in Italian Studies from NYU in 2009.

Deborah Tennen
Chief Content Officer, Shmoop
PhD in Italian Language and Literature, Stanford, 2015
Deb Tennen received her PhD in Italian from Stanford in 2015. Since 2012, she's been working at Shmoop, a digital publisher that creates learning guides, study tools, test prep, and online courses with a sense of humor. She currently serves as the Chief Content Officer, where she uses precisely zero of the knowledge but all of the skills she learned in grad school.

Matthew Tiews
Associate Dean for the Advancement of the Arts, Stanford University
PhD in Comparative Literature, Stanford, 2004
Matthew has worked to implement the university-wide Arts Initiative since 2010, first as Executive Director of Arts Programs and currently as Associate Dean for the Advancement of the Arts. His charge is to place the arts at the core of a Stanford education and to make the university a leader in the arts nationwide. His duties include developing Stanford’s arts district, creating meaningful arts engagement for all Stanford students, integrating the arts throughout the university, and coordinating arts activity across departments and programs. He is responsible for extra-curricular arts programs, arts facilities, and financial oversight of non-departmental arts units; he also works within the Dean’s Office to facilitate arts planning and implementation. Tiews was formerly at the Stanford Humanities Center, where he oversaw programming and operations, and was particularly active in developing collaborations bringing together the arts and humanities. Prior to that, he served at the Townsend Center for the Humanities at UC Berkeley, the Stanford Humanities Laboratory, and as managing editor of the journal Modernism/modernity. Tiews trained in acting and piano performance, holds a BA from Yale and a PhD from Stanford in Comparative Literature, and is coeditor of the multidisciplinary publication Crowds (Stanford University Press, 2007), which won the Modernist Studies Association book prize.

Rolando Villalobos
Assistant Director of International Student Services, Bechtel International Center
Rolando Villalobos is the Assistant Director of International Student Services at the Bechtel International Center, and has also taught classes on International Education Management as Adjunct Professor at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey. Rolando has over 30 years of experience in the field of international education, and 26 years as the principal advisor to over 4,000 international students in F-1 / J-1 visa status. At Stanford, he helps international students navigate the legal and practical challenges to securing work authorizations required for employment in the United States. He holds an MA from Stanford in International Development and Education, and was a Fulbright recipient to Germany.