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What Your Humanities PhD Is Worth Outside Academia with Larry McGrath
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What can you actually do with a humanities or social science PhD outside of academia?
In this episode of Academics and Their Money, Neeka Miremadi and Inga Timmerman talk with Larry McGrath, a former academic who went from a PhD in the history and anthropology of science to working in tech, and now serves as a senior user researcher at Amazon working on Alexa Plus.
Larry offers an incredibly detailed look at what happens when you take a humanities or social science PhD into industry. He shares why he initially pursued academia, what ultimately made him realize that an…
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