Mellon Immersive Experiences offer U of M humanities doctoral students one to several days to learn more about the workplaces, projects, research, and other opportunities involved in a specific career context. Students may identify an immersive site of their own choosing, or select from a list of organizations willing to host.
Category: Internships
UGrow: Graduate Internship Program at University of Miami
The UGrow (Graduate Opportunities at Work) Program at the University of Miami was established in 2015 to provide professional training and preparation for humanities and social science PhD students interested in careers other than tenure-track faculty positions. Developed by Tim Watson in the College of Arts & Sciences, in partnership with The Graduate School at the…
Putting the Humanities into Practice
By Shana Melnysyn, PhD Candidate, Anthropology and History When I first considered applying for a Mellon Public Humanities Fellowship, I wasn’t very familiar with what the Michigan Humanities Council did, nor was I aware that every state in the U.S.A. has its own humanities council. But as soon as I started investigating their support for…
Penn State Graduate Internship Program
Penn State’s Liberal Arts Graduate Internship Program (GRIP) places humanities and social science graduate students with internship positions in university units that can benefit from their writing, communication, and quantitative skills.
Reimagining Graduate Scholarship: The Emergence of Paid Internships
A graduate student at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York discusses the growing variety of paid internship programs at universities across the United States, including U of M. He argues that in order to integrate such programs more seamlessly with graduate curricula, there will have to be a continuation of the…