#  RCC Postdoc Seminar Talks – Strategies to succeed in the Academic World: "Doctoral Studies at Harvard: Perspectives of a Sociology PhD Student" 

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **November 30, 2018** 

 06:00PM - 06:30PM EST 

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 **RCC Conference Room, 26 Trowbridge St., Cambridge MA**  



 

 



 

 How do you get into and get through an American grad school program? What’s life like in a Harvard PhD program? The aim of this talk is to describe what the path to a PhD entails in the United States, with a particular focus on Harvard and on the Sociology department.

 Linked to the Postdoc Seminar in Innovative Teaching, different talks will be held at RCC concerning strategies for predocs and postdocs to be successful in the job market. The aim of this initiative is to show the best ways to improve your skill set and to develop ideas and mechanisms in both Spain and US.

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 **Speaker:** Elena Ayala-Hurtado – PhD candidate in the Department of Sociology, Harvard University; RCC Fellow

 **Sponsor:** RCC



 

 



 

 

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