Event

This Talks at Twelve has a special start time of 11:30 a.m. and is part of the Faculty Roundtable Discussion Series on Mentoring Graduate Students and Postdocs. The talk is open to faculty and BCTR staff.

Julie Posselt is associate dean of the Graduate School and associate professor of Education at the University of Southern California. Posselt’s scholarship examines organizational behavior affecting access to and equity in graduate and professional education, especially in STEM disciplines. She is PI and director of the California Consortium for Inclusive Doctoral Education (C-CIDE), and Co-PI and director of the Research Hub for the NSF-INCLUDES Alliance: Inclusive Graduate Education Network (IGEN). Posselt is the author of two books: Equity in Science: Representation, Culture, and the Dynamics of Change in Graduate Education (Stanford University Press, 2020) and Inside Graduate Admissions: Merit, Diversity, and Faculty Gatekeeping (Harvard University Press, 2016). Presently, Posselt is spending part of her sabbatical at Cornell working with the Bronfenbrenner Center for Translational Research.

The Faculty Roundtable Discussion Series on Mentoring Graduate Students and Postdocs is sponsored by the Provost’s Office of Faculty Development and Diversity, and the Graduate School Offices of Inclusion and Student Engagement and Future Faculty and Academic Careers.