Jesse Daugherty

  • Assistant Director of Graduate Administration - English, Film & Media Studies

Jesse Daugherty is the Assistant Director of Graduate Administration in the Humanities Division, while also serving as a Graduate Administrator for the Film & Media Studies program. Jesse has been at the University of Pittsburgh since 2013, where he came after six years of teaching at SUNY Cortland. His undergraduate studies at SUNY Binghamton and graduate work at SUNY Cortland were of some preparation for his past and current roles at Pitt, but his time as a barkeep and doorman at a Galway pub were and are far more translatable.

In his dual role, Jesse is here to provide active training and leadership for Graduate Administrators across the Humanities Division, to support and be an advocate for the graduate students within the Film & Media Studies Program, and to be an agent of growth within the Dietrich School of Arts & Sciences as a whole.

Jesse has been at the University of Pittsburgh long enough to have made it through the waitlist twice for a parking pass and to remember when pressing a floor number from inside of the Cathedral of Learning elevators was a thing.