These resources examine approaches other institutions have taken to modifying or expanding the curriculum to enhance the capacities of graduate students for success in the twentieth century job market.
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Teaching Career Diversity Through Informational Interviews
The content and format of career diversity within humanities departments follows no single model. As curriculum committees and graduate …Read More »
Humanities for All
A project of the National Humanities Alliance, the Humanities for All database showcases “higher ed-based publicly engaged humanities initiatives, presenting a …Read More »
Mobilizing the Humanities for Diverse Careers
This piece from Anne Krook encourages humanities graduate departments to focus “on two problems whose fixes are within our …Read More »
Recap: A Tool Kit for Doctoral Student Career Planning
In May 2017, the MLA’s Connected Academics Initiative published a guide for PhD programs and faculty about doctoral student career …Read More »
Preparing for Humanities Careers: Suggestions for Doctoral Students and Departments
By Matthew Woodbury, Doctoral Candidate, Department of History As a historian, when asked to explain what I do, one reply …Read More »American Historical Association’s Career Diversity Faculty Resources
The American Historical Association has identified five core skills of historical training – communication, collaboration, quantitative literacy, intellectual self-confidence, and …Read More »
Resources for Philosophers
Part of the mission statement of the American Philosophical Association is the “professional development of philosophers at all levels.” Beyond …Read More »What role should departments play?
In this post, Dr. Kristina Markman and Dr. Michael Ryan discuss what role departments have in preparing students for humanities …Read More »
Promising Practices in Humanities PhD Professional Development
This report presents findings from the 2016-2017 Next Generation Humanities PhD Consortium that is useful for faculty and administrators interested …Read More »Next Steps for Career Diversity: Diving into Graduate Education
In the December 2017 issue of Perspectives, the American Historical Association’s news magazine, Executive Director James Grossman discussed next steps …Read More »
Fixing Our Job-Market Problem
A new article from Chronicle Vitae discusses important considerations for doctoral programs going forward: “There is no reason that strategic …Read More »
PhD Innovation Grants at Duke University
Duke University’s Versatile Humanists at Duke program, funded by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, offers …Read More »
Reimagining the Humanities PhD and Reaching New Publics – Simpson Center for the Humanities, University of Washington
Reimagining the Humanities PhD and Reaching New Publics—launched in July 2015 with the support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation—has …Read More »
The Future of the Humanities PhD
This article discusses several well-known problems facing PhD programs in the humanities, including high attrition rates, long time to degree, …Read More »
On the Usefulness of Graduate Student Internships
A history PhD student at the University of Mexico writes about her skepticism when she first learned about internships for …Read More »
Challenges to Graduate Program Innovation
Ten years after the MLA called for a transformation in the way that foreign language departments structure graduate curricula, very …Read More »
Professional Development at Northwestern University
The Graduate School at Northwestern University offers small grants for departments, faculty, and graduate students for a range of professional …Read More »
Interview With Leonard Cassuto
Leonard Cassuto is the author of The Graduate School Mess: What Caused It and How We Can Fix It, a thorough …Read More »
Reforming Doctoral Education, 1990 to 2015: Recent Initiatives and Future Prospects
This report was commissioned by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to provide an historical overview of initiatives to reform graduate …Read More »
Bass Connections
Duke University has launched a university-wide initiative to develop connections across disciplines and create a new model for education by …Read More »
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 …Read More »
From Being to Doing: Mobilizing the Humanities
This piece by Anne Krook, a former academic and U of M professor who transitioned to corporate and nonprofit work, …Read More »
Public Humanities Initiatives at University of Wisconsin
The Center for the Humanities at University of Wisconsin supports a number of initiatives designed to connect scholars and their …Read More »
Professionalization Initiatives at Vanderbilt
The graduate program in English at Vanderbilt University “recognizes the challenges facing doctoral candidates today and devotes considerable attention to …Read More »
Future Humanities: Transforming Graduate Studies for the Future of Canada
Future Humanities is an SSRC-funded initiative to transform graduate study in Canada and engage in global discussions about humanities training …Read More »
Grants Seek to Foster a Culture Change in Humanities Graduate Education
A recent Chronicle of Higher Education article describes the growing movement towards better preparation for diverse careers. Large organizations such as the …Read More »
National Endowment for the Humanities Announces Next Generation PhD Grant Recipients for 2016-17
On August 9th, 2016, the National Endowment for the Humanities announced nearly $1.7 million in grants to 28 universities as …Read More »
Georgetown University, Reinvent the PhD Course Development
Reinvent the PhD at Georgetown University is a program supported by the MLA’s Connected Academics. The Course Development Group is …Read More »
Re-envisioning the PhD – Recommendations from National Studies on Doctoral Education
One of the products of a conference held at the University of Washington in 2000, funded by the Pew Charitable …Read More »Re-envisioning the PhD – Some Common Concerns
This 26-page report, based on research that preceded the Pew Charitable Trusts-funded University of Washington conference, includes reflections and concerns …Read More »
Humanists at Work
Humanists at Work is a University of California-wide initiative geared toward humanities doctoral students who are interested in pursuing careers …Read More »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 …Read More »
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 …Read More »
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 …Read More »
The Praxis Network
The Praxis Network features information about programs at colleges and universities in the US and UK that address the future …Read More »
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 …Read More »