SUMMER 2023 In its third cycle, we are proudly introducing and awarding four nationwide opportunities as part of the Public Humanities Internship Program. The 2023 Public Humanities Internships are co-funded by the Rothman Endowment, the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and University Press Florida. Content Assistant – TeachRock, Rock and Roll Forever Foundation The Rock […]
Winter, Frederick A. Plus C’est La Même Chose(opens in new tab). Inside Higher Ed, 2021
Lavery, Grace. Making Grad School Work for Weirdos: Our alt-ac training too often prizes a narrow set of careers. The Chronicle of Higher Education, 2022.
Tolley, Kim, ed. Professors in the Gig Economy: Unionizing Adjunct Faculty in America. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018.
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Sommer, Doris. The Work of Art in the World. Civic Agency and Public Humanities. Durham: Duke University Press, 2014.
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Smith, Sidone. Manifesto for the Humanities: Transforming Doctoral Education in Good Enough Times. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2016.
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Small, Helen. The Value of the Humanities. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.
Rogers, Katina L. Putting the Humanities PhD to Work: Thriving in and Beyond the Classroom. Durham: Duke University Press, 2020.
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Quadlin, Natasha and Brian Powell. Who Should Pay? Higher Education, Responsibility, and the Public. Russell Sage, 2022.
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Linder, Kathryn, Kevin Kelly, and Thomas J. Tobin. Going Alt-Ac: A Guide to Alternative Academic Careers. Sterling, Virginia: Stylus Publishing 2020.
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Kuhn, Virginia and Anke Finger, eds. Shaping the Digital Dissertation: Knowledge Production in the Arts and Humanities. Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2021.
Kelsky, Karen. The Professor Is In: The Essential Guide To Turning Your Ph.D. Into a Job. New York: Three Rivers Press, 2015.
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Fruscione, Joseph, and Kelly J. Baker, eds. Succeeding Outside the Academy: Career Paths Beyond the Humanities, Social Sciences, and STEM. Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas, 2018.
Cornthwaite, Chris. Doctoring: Building a Life With a Ph.D. Independently published, Reedsy: 2020.
Childress, Herb. The Adjunct Underclass: How America’s Colleges Betrayed Their Faculty, Their Students, and Their Mission. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press 2019.
Caterine, Christopher L. Leaving Academia: A Practical Guide. New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2020.
Leonard Cassuto. The Graduate School Mess: What Caused It and How We Can Fix It. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2015.
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Cassuto, Leonard. The New PhD: How to Build a Better Graduate Education. Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021.
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Belfiore, Eleonora, and Anna Upchurch. Humanities in the Twenty-First Century: Beyond Utility and Markets. Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan, 2013.
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Berube, Michael and J. Ruth. The Humanities, Higher Education, and Academic Freedom. UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
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Berdahl, Loleen. Work Your Career: Get What You Want from Your Social Sciences or Humanities PhD. Toronto, Canada: University of Toronto Press, 2018.
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Bate, Jonathan, ed. The Public Value of the Humanities. New York: Bloomsbury, 2011.
Basalla, Susan, and Maggie Debelius. So What Are You Going to Do with That? Finding Careers Outside Academia. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014.
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Aldama, Frederick Luis. Why the Humanities Matter: A Commonsense Approach. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2008.
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February 24–March 25, 2021 The public humanities strive to reach broad audiences and diverse communities to enhance cultural and civic life through inclusivity, accessibility, interdisciplinarity, and collaboration. The Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere’s first Graduate Public Humanities Institute is a month-long series of virtual workshops and events introducing the methods, formats, and […]