Purpose, Leadership, and Humanities Panel

What can leadership look like for humanities PhDs beyond the traditional academic path? Join Daniella Sarnoff and Julianne Gilland for a conversation about building purposeful careers, taking on leadership roles, and bringing humanistic perspectives to work in cultural, global, and mission-driven organizations. Panelists will share how their doctoral training has shaped their careers, leadership approaches, and contributions beyond the academy.

Featured Panelists:

Daniella Sarnoff, PhD | Director, Global Scholars and Fellowships at Columbia Global

Daniella joined Columbia World Project in July 2022 after over a decade at the Social Science Research Council (SSRC), directing the International Dissertation Research Fellowship Program, as well as other programs supporting scholars in the humanities and social sciences. Daniella holds a PhD in European history and works on extremist politics in interwar France. Before her work at the SSRC she taught history at Xavier University, Fordham University, and New York University. She has published in journals and in edited volumes on the topics of French fascism, women’s suffrage, and gender and fascism. 

Julianne Gilland, PhD | Deputy Director, Colby College Museum of Art.

Julianne is Deputy Director of the Colby College Museum of Art, where she leads collections, exhibitions, and operations teams and museum planning. Before joining the Colby Museum in 2017, she was Curator and then Director of the Benson Latin American Collection at the University of Texas at Austin, a special collection and archive of US Latinx and Latin American history, arts, and culture. While at UT she co-edited A Library for the Americas: The Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection (University of Texas Press, 2019) with José Montelongo and was appointed as an Association of Research Libraries Leadership Fellow. Prior to her time in Austin, Julianne was at the University of California, Berkeley, where she served as Deputy Director of the Robbins Collection Research Center and Rare Books Library. She was a Fulbright scholar and earned her Ph.D. in Early Modern European and Colonial Latin American history at UC Berkeley in 2002.

Where: Guerlac Room, A.D. White House

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Co-Sponsored by Graduate School Career and Professional Development and The Society for the Humanities