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Columbia and the Global Centers Volume 3, Issue 2 Superscript Spring 2013 The Graduate School of Arts & Sciences | Columbia University Internationalism Evolves: Columbia and the Global Centers Superscript 1 Link back to contents page CONTENTS GSAS Alumni Association Board of Directors Louis A. Parks, President, M.A. ’95, Ancient Studies 1 Message from the Dean Lester Wigler, Vice President, M.A. ’80, Music 2 Internationalism Evolves: Bridget M. Rowan, Secretary, M.A. ’80, English and Comparative Literature Columbia and the Global Centers From the Dean Tyler Anbinder, M.A. ’85, M.Phil. ’87, Ph.D. ’90, History 10 Alumni Profile: Paul LeClerc, Jillisa Brittan, Chair of Development Committee, M.A. ’86, English and The annual academic job market season graduation. The acronym “alt-ac” has been devised to sig- Ph.D. ’69 Comparative Literature has concluded and our doctoral students nify this new category of employment possibilities that Gerrard Bushell, M.A. ’91, M.Phil. ’94, Ph.D. ’04, Political Science have encountered once again a labor will make it possible for doctoral students throughout 14 Taking the Classroom Out of the Robert J. Carow, Chair of Events Committee, M.Phil. ’94, Ph.D. ’94, Economics market that, though improved, is still the land to put their hard-earned degrees to good use. and Education Academy weak. It is tempting to see the source of The truth, though, is that there is nothing new about Neena Chakrabarti, Student Representative, M.A. ’11, Chemistry this weakness solely in the financial cri- nonacademic careers for doctoral students. Fewer than 18 Crossing Circuits: Finding Claude Kenneth W. Ciriacks, Ph.D. ’62, Geological Sciences sis of 2008—and it is indeed true that all 35 percent of earners of Ph.D.s go on to seek academic McKay in the Archives Annette Clear, M.A. ’96, M.Phil. ’97, Ph.D. ’02, Political Science national professional organizations saw a employment, and that proportion has not been much marked decline in positions advertised at higher in decades. But academic departments and Leonard A. Cole, Chair of Awards Committee, M.A. ’65, Ph.D. ’70, Political 28 Alumni News graduate schools are increasingly realizing that, if such Science that time. But the reality is that the 2008 disaster merely exacerbated a preexisting is the case, we should revisit our curricula and the skills Michael S. Cornfeld, Chair of Nominating Committee, M.A. ’73, Political Science 30 Alumni Profile: Maria Konnikova, situation, namely, the erosion of tenured that we develop in our students to have them reflect Ph.D. ’13 Elizabeth Debreu, M.A. ’93, Art History and Archaeology and tenure-track positions in the higher the multiple career paths in which they will embark Deborah Gill Hilzinger, M.A. ’89, M.Phil. ’91, Ph.D. ’02, History education system in the United States. upon graduation, and not simply assume that the only Carlos J. Alonso Such jobs account currently for fewer avenue worth pursuing is the one leading to an academic 32 Alumni Profile: Leonard Cole, Robert Greenberg, Chair of Student Outreach Committee, M.A. ’88, Philosophy Dean, Graduate School of Arts and than 30 percent of all instructional posts, position. While in graduate school, many students kept Ph.D. ’70 David Jackson, Co-chair of Marketing and Research Committee, M.A. ’76, Sciences; Morris A. and Alma M.Phil. ’78, Ph.D. ’81, English and Comparative Literature Schapiro Professor in the Humanities and the downward trend is expected to to themselves the decision not to pursue an academic continue until such time as universities career out of a legitimate fear that their standing in their 34 On the Shelf: Faculty Publications Sukhan Kim, M.A. ’78, Political Science determine singly or collectively that there program would be affected were this ambivalence to be Les B. Levi, M.A. ’76, M.Phil. ’78, Ph.D. ’82, English and Comparative Literature 36 On the Shelf: Alumni Publications is a tipping point of tenure-track faculty below which known. We all need to move away from that monolithic Komal S. Sri-Kumar, Ph.D. ’77, Economics they cannot go without affecting irrevocably the quality culture and embrace the myriad career paths available to 38 Dissertations John Waldes, Co-chair of Marketing and Research Committee, M.S. ’68, of the education received by both undergraduate and our students, a variety and breadth that may in the end Electrical Engineering, Ph.D. ’71, Plasma Physics graduate students, and ultimately the reputation of the provide a plausible rationale for the many years spent in 46 Announcements Harriet Zuckerman, Ph.D. ’65, Sociology institution itself. the pursuit of the doctorate. Furthermore, the sustained decrease in the number To this end, the Graduate School of Arts and Sci- of academic positions available to newly minted grad- ences has sponsored this year a series of workshops, 48 In Memoriam uate students has produced a compression of four or meetings, and social events in which alumni who have Letters to the Editor five graduating classes of candidates who are competing not pursued academic careers are invited to share their 51 Helpful Links with one another for a decreasing supply of tenure-track professional biographies with current students. These To share your thoughts about anything you positions. These graduates have to begin their careers in events have been extremely well attended and have inau- have read in this publication, please email employment circumstances that are not the ones they gurated a close working relationship among the Center [email protected]. Unless you note anticipated, and are further forced to postpone yet again for Career Education, the Graduate Student Advisory otherwise in your message, any correspondence existential decisions related to life in general that the Council (GSAC), and the GSAS Alumni Association. received by the editor will be considered for relatively long duration of graduate studies had already Also, later this summer GSAS will announce the cre- future publication. Please be sure to include in postponed. ation of internships in academic administration that will your message your name and affiliation to the The persistently difficult academic labor market has allow current graduate students to explore their potential been leading students to explore employment options interest in that area of employment. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. outside the academy, or within the university but in These are only first steps, but they have the virtue SUPERSCRIPT is published three times per administrative roles. Such students quickly realize that of sending clear and compelling signals to our two most year by the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences their faculty mentors have little knowledge to share important constituencies: to our students, that there is a and the GSAS Alumni Association. outside of the academic job-hunting experience, and world of possibilities out there that they should feel free that the curriculum and organization of their graduate to pursue; and to our alumni, that we are immensely program assumed as a matter of course that they would proud of what they have achieved in their manifold and Dean: Carlos J. Alonso be seeking and obtaining an academic position upon fruitful endeavors outside the academic realm. Editor: Robert Ast Associate Director for Alumni Relations: Ambareen Naqvi Design, Editing, and Production: Columbia Creative Link back to contents page 2 Superscript Superscript 1 Link back to contents page Internationalism Evolves: Columbia and the Global Centers By Alexander Gelfand From his office on the fourteenth floor of the School of International Both were inaugurated in the early 20th century and Public Affairs (SIPA), Paul LeClerc, Ph.D. ’69 and director of the by University President Columbia Global Center | Europe in Paris, straddles two major periods in Nicholas Murray Butler, a the history of Columbia’s engagement with the wider world: one of them Nobel Peace Prize winner who advocated for what he rooted in a model of internationalism that stretches back to the early days called “the international of the 20th century, the other arising from more recent notions of global mind”: a habit of regarding “the few nations of the interconnectedness and interdependency. civilized world as free and co-operating equals The Paris site is part of a of Studio-X facilities is internationalism. SIPA, for in aiding the progress of network of eight Global closely integrated with the example, was one of many civilization, in developing Centers that serve as hubs Centers, views each site University institutions commerce and industry, for University activities as a “broadband platform that grew out of the need and in spreading across a broad geographical for supporting every for foreign intelligence enlightenment and culture swath. (The other seven are possible kind of interaction during World War II throughout the world.” located in Amman, Beijing, between Columbia and a and the subsequent Cold Istanbul, Mumbai, Nairobi, region,” and as a “high- War demand for regional Such institutions continue Rio de Janeiro, and Santiago level exchange node that expertise, phenomena to play a vital role in the and represent the Middle accelerates and facilitates that led to the field of area life of the University and East, East Asia, South Asia, new forms of collaboration.” studies as we know it today. of many students and Africa, and Latin America.) SIPA’s offices are just a faculty. LeClerc himself is Mark Wigley, dean of That very modern short walk from Deutsches chair of the advisory board the Graduate School of model represents the Haus and the Maison for the Maison Française, Architecture, Planning extension, one might Française—the oldest which will celebrate its and Preservation, whose even say evolution, of foreign-language or cultural 100th anniversary in 2013. own worldwide network an earlier approach to houses in the United States.
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