Graduate Humanities Engagement

Career Exploration Platforms

• Beyond the Professoriate
• The Professor Is In
• ImaginePhD
• VersatilePhD

 

Helpful Websites

• Carpe Careers Blog at InsideHigherEd
• Connected Academics (Modern Language Association)
• AHA Career Diversity Resources (American Historical Association)
• Jobs on Toast
• Roostervane

 

Articles

• Pearson, Robert. Strategies for Articulating the Value of an Internship. Inside Higher Ed, 2022
• 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.
• Winter, Frederick A. Plus C’est La Même Chose. Inside Higher Ed, 2021

 

Podcasts

• Under Review: Rethinking Humanities Graduate Education
• Recovering Academic
• Re(en)Vision PhD Podcast
• Careers in the Public Humanities
• PhDs at Work 
• PapaPhD
• The Professor Is In
• Job Search the Smart Way
• PhDFuturesNow!
• Public Work

 

Books

• Aldama, Frederick Luis. Why the Humanities Matter: A Commonsense Approach. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2008.
• Basalla, Susan, and Maggie Debelius. So What Are You Going to Do with That? Finding Careers Outside Academia. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014.
• Bate, Jonathan, ed. The Public Value of the Humanities. New York: Bloomsbury, 2011.
• Berdahl, Loleen. Work Your Career: Get What You Want from Your Social Sciences or Humanities PhD. Toronto, Canada: University of Toronto Press, 2018.
• Berube, Michael and J. Ruth. The Humanities, Higher Education, and Academic Freedom. UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
• Belfiore, Eleonora, and Anna Upchurch. Humanities in the Twenty-First Century: Beyond Utility and Markets. Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan, 2013.
• Cassuto, Leonard. The New PhD: How to Build a Better Graduate Education. Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021.
• Leonard Cassuto. The Graduate School Mess: What Caused It and How We Can Fix It. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2015.
• Caterine, Christopher L. Leaving Academia: A Practical Guide. New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 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.
• Cornthwaite, Chris. Doctoring: Building a Life With a Ph.D. Independently published, Reedsy: 2020.
• 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.
• Kelsky, Karen. The Professor Is In: The Essential Guide To Turning Your Ph.D. Into a Job. New York: Three Rivers Press, 2015.
• Kuhn, Virginia and Anke Finger, eds. Shaping the Digital Dissertation: Knowledge Production in the Arts and Humanities. Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2021.
• Linder, Kathryn, Kevin Kelly, and Thomas J. Tobin. Going Alt-Ac: A Guide to Alternative Academic Careers. Sterling, Virginia: Stylus Publishing 2020.
• Quadlin, Natasha and Brian Powell. Who Should Pay? Higher Education, Responsibility, and the Public. Russell Sage, 2022.
• Rogers, Katina L. Putting the Humanities PhD to Work: Thriving in and Beyond the Classroom. Durham: Duke University Press, 2020.
• Small, Helen. The Value of the Humanities. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.
• Smith, Sidone. Manifesto for the Humanities: Transforming Doctoral Education in Good Enough Times. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2016.
• Smulyan, Susan. Doing Public Humanities. New York: Routledge, 2021.
• Sommer, Doris. The Work of Art in the World. Civic Agency and Public Humanities. Durham: Duke University Press, 2014.
• Tolley, Kim, ed. Professors in the Gig Economy: Unionizing Adjunct Faculty in America. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018.

 

Humanities Spotlight

“Under Review: Rethinking Humanities Graduate Education” is a six-episode podcast series produced and hosted by two recent PhD students in the humanities, Dr. June Ke (UCHRI) and Dr. Lauren Burrell Cox (CHPS). Putting graduate education under review, the podcast advocates for PhD professionalization that includes openness to a variety of careers and discussions of career diversity that are embedded in larger discussions of contingency, educational reform, and racial and socioeconomic diversity. In each episode, June and Lauren speak to guests about pressing issues such as the tenure-track jobs crisis, economic outcomes for humanities PhDs, future directions for graduate education, and professional development that takes into account diverse paths and the current realities of the job market. Under Review serves as a resource for helping graduate students in the humanities feel more empowered as they navigate the academy and take the next steps in their careers.
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