Conversations in Graduate Education

Spring 2025

Creating and Preserving Multimodal Dissertations Beyond the Monograph

Wednesday, February 19, 2025 at 3 pm

Dr. Justin Schell - Director, Digital Scholarship & Creative Spaces, University of Michigan
Dr. Justin Schell explores the creation and preservation of his online, multimodal dissertation, We Rock Long Distance: Manifest and the Circulations of Diasporic Hip-Hop. This innovative project, incorporating text, audio, video, and images, explores the cultural and technical challenges of creating non-traditional dissertations while addressing persistent issues in the Humanities and academia.

Dr. AD Carson - Associate Professor of Hip-Hop, University of Virginia
Dr. Carson is associate professor of hip-hop and the Global South and a Shannon Center fellow for advanced research at the University of Virginia. His album, Owning My Masters (Mastered): The Rhetorics of Rhymes & Revolutions, is published by University of Michigan Press.  

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Fall 2024

Navigating the Academic Landscape: Using Psychosocial Models for Graduate Education

Wednesday, September 25, 2024 from 3 pm to 4:30 pm

Dr. Bonita London, Associate Dean for Research and Professor of Psychology at Stony Brook University, will present research findings on sense of belonging, efficacy, identity, and growth mindset for graduate students at Stony Brook.  Join us for this engaging and illuminating talk!

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Spring 2024

Conversations in Graduate Education: Alternative Dissertation Formats in the Humanities and Social Sciences

Wednesday, April 17, 2024 from 4 pm to 5:15 pm

Ever wonder what it would be like to create a dissertation that doesn’t follow the traditional monograph format? Join us via Zoom for a conversation with scholars who have done just that! Our panelists will share their experiences with videographic and digital dissertation formats, and discuss the process of creating alternative dissertations, the possibilities, challenges, and successes. After short presentations, we have scheduled ample time for Q&A and conversation with the panelists. Bring the questions that matter most to you!

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Panelists

	Lindsey Pelucacci  Lindsey Pelucacci  is an English PhD candidate at Stony Brook University. Her dissertation, Queer Incarnations: Reconstructing a Queer Catholic Imaginary Through Film and Modernist Fiction, combines videographic criticism with traditional writing to explore the complicated relationship between queerness and Catholicism. In addition to publications in Frames Cinema Journal, Queer Studies in Media & Popular Culture, and Women: A Cultural Review, she has created educational video essays and short films.
	Dr. Wendy Barrales, NYU Postdoctoral Associate-Teaching and Learning Wendy Barrales, PhD, is an interdisciplinary scholar-activist and Postdoctoral Associate in the Department of Teaching and Learning at NYU. As a daughter of formerly undocumented Mexican immigrants, she works to center her family's stories in her research, community organizing, & classroom. Inspired by the experiences of her mother and abuelita, Dr. Barrales founded the award-winning Women of Color Archive (WOCArchive) --- an intergenerational art-based storytelling project that preserves, documents, and amplifies women of color’s stories. The WOCArchive is featured in Dr. Barrales’s publicly accessible multimodal dissertation, searching for mami & abuelita, hosted on CUNY’s Manifold instance.
	Nicole Cote, CUNY Graduate Center Digital Fellow and Doctoral Candidate Nicole Cote (she/her) is a doctoral candidate at The Graduate Center CUNY, whose work centers on the production of public knowledge and understandings of disaster through the lens of media, the history of technology, art, and STS. She works widely on applied digital media and digital humanities projects and teaches digital skills. Nicole is a Dissertation Fellow with the Art Science Connect Initiative, Advisor for the MA in Digital Humanities Program, and Adjunct Lecturer in the MS in Data Analysis and Visualization Program at The Graduate Center. She is also an Affiliate with the Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life (CITAP) at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill.

Fall 2023

Unexpected Flourishing: Supporting Graduate Student Research and Careers

Wednesday, November 8, 2023 at 1 pm

Join Dr. Katina Rogers, author of Putting the Humanities PhD to Work, for a discussion about universities and critical hope—and how to help grad students find their professional footing in difficult terrain. Drawing on a metaphor of the ecological functions of fungi in rotting logs, Rogers will consider elements of interdependence, coalition building, and collective thriving as a lens to supporting graduate career and research pathways in and beyond the university, even in less-than-pristine conditions. This discussion on innovative modes of scholarship that connect to diverse career pathways will consider what might be possible with different value structures, different ways of making meaning in community, and a broader sense of where and how scholarly work can make an impact, while also offering concrete advice for how to support students as they navigate the higher education landscape as it is now.

This session is intended for SBU Graduate Program Directors and graduate faculty and staff, but is open to all interested in supporting graduate student research and careers.

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Spring 2023

Equity in Graduate Admissions

Facilitated by the Inclusive Graduate Education Network (IGEN), this evidence-based workshop series will help foster reflection, healthy discussion, and practical strategies for equitably admitting graduate students. These conversations were primarily intended for West and East campus GPDs, GPCs, graduate admissions committee members, and department leadership.

To Request the Slides: Email Assistant Dean Kathleen Flint Ehm

Fall 2022

Graduate Student Mental Health and the Role of Mentors

On August 10, 2022, Stony Brook University Provost Carl Lejuez presented the inaugural entry in the Graduate School's Conversations in Graduate Education series. In his talk entitled, "Graduate Student Mental Health and the Role of Mentors," Provost Lejuez, a professor of Clinical Psychology, provides insights and tips for mentors on supporting graduate student mental health.

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