Professional Development Workshop: Perfecting the zoom interview
June 14 at 9am PST • 12 Noon EST • 5pm BST
Event held via zoom • Registration Link
Photography Network membership is required to attend.
Join us on June 14 to learn the tips and tricks for perfecting your zoom interview. The event will begin with a presentation by Boston University’s Director for PhD Resource Sasha Goldman who specializes in career planning and professional development for PhD students and postdocs. We will then hear from Rebecca Senf, Chief Curator at the Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona, and Peter Wang, Assistant Professor of Art History and Visual Studies at the University of Kentucky, to hear about their recent experiences serving on a hiring committee for a museum job and interviewing for an academic track position. The workshop hopes to demystify some of the interview and job application process. Be sure to come with questions!
Sasha B. Goldman is the Director of PhD Resources at Boston University where she oversees the Core Capacities Curriculum, the PhD Progression micro-credential platform, the Vitamin PhD podcast, and PhD Writing Support. She develops and coordinates regular programming, workshops, and trainings for current BU PhD students in areas of career and professional development, project management, writing and communication, and teaching. She earned her PhD in the History of Art and Architecture, an MA from Temple University, and a BA from Connecticut College, both in Art History.
Dr. Rebecca Senf is Chief Curator at the Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona, in Tucson. Her B.A. in Art History is from the University of Arizona; her M.A. and Ph.D. were awarded by Boston University. In 2012, her book Reconstructing the View: The Grand Canyon Photographs of Mark Klett and Byron Wolfe was released by University of California Press; in 2017, her book To Be Thirteen, showcasing the work of Betsy Schneider, was published by Radius Press and Phoenix Art Museum. She has curated fifty exhibitions, including her recent Richard Avedon: Relationships which was shown in Milan and Palermo, Italy and Rotterdam, in The Netherlands, and has contributed chapters, interviews, and essays to over a dozen publications. Senf is an Ansel Adams scholar, and in 2020 released a book on Adams’s early years, called Making a Photographer, copublished by the CCP and Yale University Press, now in a second printing.
Dr. Peter Wang is an Assistant Professor of Art History and Visual Studies at the University of Kentucky, where he specializes in modern/contemporary art, American art, and history of photography. Prior to joining Kentucky, he taught at Saint Mary’s College (Indiana) and Butler University. Wang holds a Ph.D. in Art History from Tyler School of Art, Temple University with a dissertation entitled The Profane and Profound: American Road Photography from 1930 to the Present.
Wang’s recent article in Panorama: Journal of the Association of Historians of American Art revisits Wing Young Huie’s photographs from his 2001-02 cross-country road trip in the United States in relation to Asian American identity and experience. Wang’s research has been supported by grants and fellowships from the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Terra Foundation for American Art, the Ministry of Education in Taiwan, the Association of Historians of American Art (AHAA), the Henry Luce Foundation, the Popular Culture Association, and the Center for the Humanities at Temple University (CHAT).