Humanists at Work is a University of California-wide initiative geared toward humanities doctoral students who are interested in pursuing careers outside and alongside the academy. Humanists at Work conducts biannual workshops and works closely with departments across the UC system to reach their students and provide them with skills-based training for a range of careers.
Category: Graduate Program Innovation
Modern Language Association— Task Force Report
The body of this MLA report contains a number of recommendations for rethinking the humanities doctorate including rationales for each of them. The authors suggest major changes to humanities doctoral training including engaging more deeply with technology, reimagining the dissertation, reducing time to degree, strengthening teaching preparation, expanding professional opportunities, validating diverse career outcomes, and…
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…
The Praxis Network
The Praxis Network features information about programs at colleges and universities in the US and UK that address the future of education and professionalization for students in the humanities. It is a useful resource for learning how some institutions have begun to embrace the broad potential of humanists in the world.
White Paper on the Future of the PhD in the Humanities
This paper, published in 2013 by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada & McGill University, argues for a broad rethinking of humanities PhDs’ potential to do effective work in many professions.The authors argue that “the careers of the future call for people who can think both deeply and flexibly, write persuasively, and question productively.”