Earlier this year, The Advising Project sat down with Suzannah Clark, Morton B. Knafel Professor of Music and Director of the Mahindra Humanities Center, to discuss graduate advising at Harvard and beyond. Image Suzannah Clark, Director of the Mahindra Humanities Center and Morton B. Knafel Professor of Music at Harvard University. So there is no “ideal” content advisor—the graduate student becomes the expert on the content. As a graduate student, the best thing you can do is develop healthy habits of working as an academic. One thing that served me well as a graduate student was the student-run conference that alternated amongst Princeton, Penn, and Cornell.