ACLS Podcast Series - Episode 3 - Michael Ursell

Humanists@Work Podcast

ACLS Director of Public Programs John Paul Christy and three former and current fellows from University of California schools each answer five questions about the ACLS Public Fellows program: how the program developed, how successful fellows prepared, and what advice these experts have for interested applicants. An important listen before 2016 fellowship applications are due on March 24! In this episode, we speak with Michael Ursell, Deputy Executive Editor of the Los Angeles Review of Books. In this role, Ursell, who holds a PhD in Literature from UC Santa Cruz, carries out a variety of editing and communications projects for the Los Angeles-based literature and culture magazine. Ursell encourages potential applicants to “think a little differently about your experience as a grad student.” For example, Ursell states that many Public Fellows positions require some form of project management and suggests that applicants think of the work that they’ve conducted in graduate school—from managing grant funding to teaching assistantships and graduate research positions—as project management experience that will be desirable to host organizations.