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Navigating the Academic Job Market
with Najnin Islam (UConn English), Katrina Kish (St. Catherine’s University), and Britney Murphy (University of Alabama at Birmingham)
September 25, 2025, 12:15pm
Live • Online • Registration required
Does applying for academic jobs feel like navigating a winding river without a map? Join us for this workshop where a panel of recent UConn PhDs and UConn faculty will offer advice for current graduate students on navigating the academic job market. There will be plenty of time for questions.
Najnin Islam is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at UConn. Her research focuses on post-emancipation labor economies in the Caribbean and the Indian Ocean world. She is currently working on a project that offers a literary-historical account of race and caste in the Anglophone Caribbean during the era of indentureship. Work from this project has appeared in Small Axe, Interventions, Global South Studies, and elsewhere.
Katrina Kish is an Assistant Professor in the Philosophy Department at St. Catherine University, a small Catholic women’s college in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Katrina successfully defended her dissertation in spring 2024, and started at St. Catherine University the following August. Katrina studies trust and distrust in relation to ethics and epistemology and is passionate about teaching.
Britney C. Murphy is an Assistant Professor of History and African American Studies at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, where she also serves as Internship Coordinator for both programs. She earned her Ph.D. in History from the University of Connecticut in 2023 and specializes in modern U.S. history, African American history, urban history, and public history. Her research on national service, citizenship, and community activism has received competitive recognition, including the Huggins‑Quarles Award from the Organization of American Historians and a Dissertation Fellowship from the University of Connecticut Humanities Institute. A former AmeriCorps VISTA and National Civilian Community Corps member, Dr. Murphy integrates community‑engaged scholarship into both her teaching and research.
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