Sarah Farkas is a Ph.D. candidate within the Department of Art and Art History in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has recieved the James L. Peacock III Summer Research Fellowship as she works to complete her dissertation on Anne of Cleaves, Sibylle of Cleaves and the ways portraits and objects are used to portray individuals.
Rosemary Gay is a Ph.D. student within the Department of Anthropology in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has been awarded the James L. Peacock III Summer Research Fellowship as she works to complete her dissertation on the politics and evolution of peanut farming.
Sarah Blanton is a Ph.D. student within the Department of Romance Studies in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has been awarded the Thomas E. Sox Summer Research Fellowship as she works to complete her dissertation on transnational labor economies and farmworker narratives.
Meet Ph.D. student Savannah Ryburn, an expert n the diet and ecology of sharks.
Pasuth Thothaveesansuk is a Ph.D. candidate with the Department of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s College of Arts and Sciences. He has received the James L. Peacock III Summer Research Fellowship as he works to complete his dissertation on liberal internationalism in East and Southeast Asia in the 20th century.
Graduate education is defined by the ladder metaphor— work your way up from student to professor with your job eventually becoming your whole life— but we need new metaphors that offer more room for exploration and failure, writes CareerWell’s Vanessa Doriott Anderson.
Taylor West is a Ph.D. candidate within the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. As she continues working on her dissertation that focuses on positive interactions between strangers, West has received the Laura Mayer Summer Research Fellowship.
Meet a graduating Tar Heel — Kate Slate (MA ’23) with the Hussman School of Journalism and Media.
Doctoral candidate utilizes niche library at The New York Botanical Garden to help complete dissertation on vanilla.
The humanities are framed as in constant crisis, writes CareerWell’s Vanessa Doriott Anderson, but, in fact, they prepare graduate students extraordinarily well for the world of work.
