Resources for Students

Earning a doctoral degree in the humanities involves more than completion of coursework, field exams, and the doctoral dissertation. There are many resources related to graduate professional development, situated in many places: graduate professional development resources are situated within departments, the Rackham Graduate School, in disciplinary organizations, and in multidisciplinary spaces on and beyond the U-M campus. This page helps students navigate the many graduate professional development resources available for humanities graduate students. Resources are categorized according to when they are most useful across three stages of the graduate student career:

Featured Resources

  • 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 cross-section of over 1400 undertaken over the past decade from all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico.” Projects are organized by discipline, theme, geography, and type of institutional and community partners. There’s… Continue reading Humanities for All
  • Where Historians Work
    Created by the American Historical Association, this database of 8,515 historians who graduated from US universities between 2004 and 2013 “provides the fullest picture  of PhD careers available for any discipline.” The tab displaying information for careers beyond the professoriate is particularly interesting. It details the occupations – ranging from a single “pest control officer” to… Continue reading Where Historians Work
  • Where do humanists work?: Organizational Profiles
    Graduates of humanities PhD programs finish their degrees with wide-ranging abilities in research, communication, instruction, and project management. For students who have spent many years at research-intensive institutions, however, it is can be difficult to imagine contexts outside of the professoriate where they might apply their training. As an assignment for English 630: Professional Humanities… Continue reading Where do humanists work?: Organizational Profiles