Skills for Scholars GradFUTURES Learning Cohort- Session 2: Academic Workflows and Project Management

Leonard Cassuto

Professor

Fordham University

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Leonard Cassuto is a professor of English at Fordham University and a columnist on graduate education for The Chronicle of Higher Education. He is the author or editor of nine books on subjects ranging from crime fiction to sports. His last two books center on the state of American graduate education: The Graduate School Mess (2015) and The New PhD: How to Build a Better Graduate Education (with Robert Weisbuch; Johns Hopkins UP, 2021). www.lcassuto.com

Laura Murray

Assistant Director, Learning Programs, McGraw Center for Teaching and Learning

Princeton University

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Laura leads a program to support graduate students to learn and thrive while at Princeton. Her favorite part of this role is engaging directly with emerging scholars to help them identify and work toward authentic goals while cultivating a sense of purpose and meaning both within the academy and beyond it. Prior to joining Princeton in 2018, Laura was a Lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate School of Education, where she completed a Ph.D. in Human Development and Education. Laura’s scholarly and applied work explores the potential of colleges and universities to promote young adult optimal development. She is particularly interested in the social, emotional, and academic identity development of students; well-being within university contexts; and transitions to and through higher education for under-represented minority and first-generation students, as well as for students with dis/abilities. Prior to her work in education, Laura was an independent documentary filmmaker for over ten years, producing social issue films for public television. She has a B.A. from Vassar College, an M.A. from Stanford University, and an M.S Ed. and Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania.

Augusta Rohrbach

Senior Director of Strategic Initiatives in Research and Scholarship

Tufts University

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After earning a PhD in English from Columbia University, Augusta Rohrbach taught at Harvard, Brown, and Washington State University. She served as editor-in-chief of ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance from 2005 to 2014. She has held a variety of posts within and beyond the academy, including resident humanist at the Fletcher Maynard Academy. She is currently the senior director of Strategic Initiatives at Tufts University.

Her publications include:

• Thinking Outside the Book (University of Massachusetts Press, 2014)


• Truth Stranger than Fiction: Race, Realism, and US Literary Realism (Palgrave, 2002)