PhD Graduate Panel from CETL on Vimeo.
This event was part of a series funded by a grant to the GSU History Department from the American Historical Association. Recent PhDs who have taken positions outside of academia participated in a roundtable and Q&A. Dylan Ruediger moderated the discussion, and the speakers included graduates of humanities… more »
Abstract and Overview Planning Committee Planning Themes Proposed Timeline
Abstract and Overview
As the late recession made long-term trend-lines in the employment prospects of PhDs in the humanities impossible to ignore, real momentum has gathered toward reforming graduate education to better reflect the multiple career paths open to humanists. In recent… more »
Originally Posted December 4, 2016 by Dylan Ruediger
Jim Grossman’s day-long presentation was a thoughtful and very thorough account of the current state of PhD training in the humanities and an equally well-considered plan to improve career outcomes for humanists, especially those who end up in the vast contingent labor pool on which… more »
Originally posted by Ashley McNeil on October 30, 2016
A couple years ago, the Modern Language Association created a special task force to research and publish a special report, “Report of the MLA Task Force in Modern Language and Literature.” Ok, so nothing about that sentence sounds special. But the impetus, aims,… more »
Originally posted April 2, 2016
I have been on the job market since September.
The academic job market takes just short of forever, and is a HUGE commitment. As a result, I have become curious about other job markets and how they work. I essentially know exactly nothing about how to get a… more »
Originally Posted April 20th, 2015
Last Friday, a panel of SIF fellows presented at the CIE Conference on Pedagogy. Due to some issues with time management on our panel, my remarks ended up being abbreviated considerably. So, I thought I’d throw them up here:
“Reimagining Graduate Education in the Humanities through the SIF… more »
Originally Posted January 27th, 2016
This March, historians from around the country will be gathering at Drew University to discuss the state of graduate education in the field. Like many disciplines, particularly (but by no means exclusively) in the humanities, history departments have been burdened for years by aging graduate curricula and cultural… more »
Originally Posted by Ashley McNeil on October 7, 2016
As a first-year Student Innovation Fellow, I’ve been learning the ropes this past month. The projects that are encompassed in the SIF domain are multiple, collaborative by nature and design, and have more arms than a centipede. This kind of learning is, I have to… more »
On Wednesday, September 28th, we held a very successful Next Generation Humanities PhD core planning committee meeting. In this meeting, we defined committee members’ roles, shared updates of our current work, and established planning goals and directions. Throughout the meeting we referenced our recent event on September 20th and discussed concrete benchmarks to facilitate… more »
