About Us
Graduate Arts & Sciences Career Services at the University of Virginia is a centralized office that provides a wide range of services and resources tailored specifically to the career preparation of Master's and PhD students in the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences.
Whether you intend to pursue an academic career, explore professional options beyond academe, or are unsure about your career objectives, GSAS Career Services offers workshops and other programs, web and print resources, and advising services to assist you in identifying, planning for and pursuing your career goals.
Staff
Wendy Perry
Director of Graduate and Postdoctoral Professional Development Programs
Wendy holds a PhD in European history from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, specializing in the French human rights movement. Having emerged from the graduate process and academic job search with a book contract and two tenure-track job offers, Wendy chose instead to pursue a career in student services. She is equally interested in trends in academia and careers beyond academe. Wendy has taught American history at the Université de Paris XII-Val de Marne and currently teaches a distance-learning course in European history for UNC-Chapel Hill, where she also won the 2001 Mickel-Shaw Excellence in Advising Award. Wendy joined GSAS Career Services in Fall 2005 and the Office of the Vice President for Research in Fall 2007.
Nicholas Stroup
Undergraduate intern
Nick is a fourth year student in the College of Arts and Sciences pursuing a B.A. in Classics and Comparative Literature. He has served as an orientation leader for the Office of Orientation and New Student Programs and as a volunteer in the LGBT Resource Center. Upon graduation he hopes to continue to work in student affairs.
Contact Information
Please contact GSAS Career Services with questions or comments:
Graduate Arts & Sciences Career Services
Office of the Vice President for Research (VPR)
P.O. Box 400895
Varsity Hall, Room 004, 136 Hospital Drive
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA 22904-4895
PH: (434) 243-4014
FAX: (434) 924-8720
E-mail:
To reach our office from Central Grounds, take the walkway between Randall and Rouss Halls (see map below or visit the following interactive map). Our office is the first office off the stairs on the lowest level of Varsity Hall.
What Students Say
Thank you for helping us graduate students to be able to learn more about the practical world that we will have to face in the future.
This is a truly invaluable resource for me to have as a graduate student preparing to be on the job market. It has helped prepare me (and will continue to in the upcoming year) for the job search, for that first job, and has helped me to identify things that are important to me in my career […] amazing.
These types of services tailored to grad students are just not available anywhere else. […] This service is extremely important for those of us about to leave the university and find employment.
I really appreciate the programs offered by career services for graduate students. These services are invaluable.
The workshop on "Teaching in Different Environments" was excellent and has pushed me to think more pointedly about where to aim for the post-PhD years. I am thankful that I am doing this type of discernment now rather than later and following the default standard.