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Since 2012, I have advised hundreds of graduate students, postdoctoral researchers and even seasoned professors on mastering the skills necessary to complete their projects
as easily and efficiently as possible, with a minimum of anxiety and a maximum of pleasure. Through one-on-one coaching, group sessions and two-day workshops, you quickly get up-to-date on the best practices in research, writing, publishing, presenting and creating job portfolios. You further learn how to juggle all these different aspects of academia while still having a life you enjoy through practicing effective time management and realistic goal-setting. Finally, you get support and guidance in envisioning and realizing a dream career through which your higher learning contributes to the good of a globalized world. |
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ABOUT MEI grew up in Colorado and was raised in a family that taught me the value of education and communication. Already in elementary school, I got to work with international students, helping Vietnamese pupils with their writing. Later, in college, I worked as an English tutor for a program that helped immigrant students in their quest to master English and successfully complete their courses of study. Although I was the ostensible teacher in these situations, I found I learned just as much from those with whom I worked. These early life experiences have been the basis for my passion to advise both local and international researchers and help them succeed in an increasingly competitive and globalized academy.
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In 2012, I received my Ph.D. in the History of Religions from the University of Chicago. During the course of my own studies and thereafter, I engaged actively in scholarship, presenting my work at international conferences in different countries, publishing my work with renowned scholarly journals and book publishers, and successfully gaining third-party funding to support my own research. I moved to Germany on a research grant from the German Academic Exchange Services, which allowed me to complete the research for my first book, Jung’s Wandering Archetype: Race and Religion in Analytical Psychology, published in 2016 by Routledge. I continued researching in Germany under the auspices of a four-year grant provided by the German Research Foundation (2017-2021). at the University of Marburg Department of the Study of Religions and the University of Toronto School of the Environment. The book manuscript for this research project is currently in progress.
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Another successful seminar at the University of Mainz.
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Taking a break with “Academic Career Search” participants at the University of Bern
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"As a staff scientist and mother of three young children, I went into Carrie’s seminar feeling quite proficient about time management already. After all, I had managed to survive thus far! I was wrong. Certainly, during the seminar we learned many good techniques to structure our day-to-day work more productively, some of which I still use regularly to this day. But most treasurable to me was the long-term horizon being front and center during those two days. In her light, witty way, Carrie got us to step out of the hamster wheel for a minute and think about time management in terms of life management. All in all, her seminar had a huge impact, both on my change of career a year later, and on everything else."
Claudia Comito, Member, Federated Systems and Data Division, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Institute for Advanced Simulation (IAS), Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC) |
