Michigan doctoral education has advanced discovery not only within disciplines, but across them. Join a lively conversation about how interdisciplinary research takes shape—through training models, institutional supports, intellectual communities, and creative tensions—and what U-M should strengthen as it looks toward the next 150 years of cross-disciplinary doctoral education.
Moderator: Catherine Sanok, Associate Professor of English and Women's and Gender Studies (College of Literature, Science, and the Arts) and Associate Dean for Academic Programs and Initiatives (Rackham Graduate School)
Shelly Flagel, Professor of Psychiatry, Research Professor in the Michigan Neuroscience Institute, Associate Director, Neuroscience Graduate Program (Medical School), and Professor of Psychology (College of Literature, Science, and the Arts)
Andrea Jones-Rooy, Scientist, Performer, and Founder, the Data Thinking Revolution; Political Science Ph.D., 2012, and former Graduate Coordinator of Rackham Interdisciplinary Workshop
Ricky Punzalan, Associate Professor of Information (School of Information) and Director, Museum Studies Program (Rackham Graduate School)
