Career Diversity Workshop

Humanities Without Walls Pre-Doctoral Career Diversity Summer Workshops

This project aims to help prepare doctoral students for careers both within and outside the academy through a series of summer workshops. Graduate students selected for this program will engage in intensive discussions with organizers of public humanities projects, leaders of university presses and learned societies, experts in the various domains of the digital humanities, representatives of governmental and non-governmental organizations, and holders of important non-faculty positions in colleges and universities (academic administrators, student services professionals, librarians and archivists, development officers, and so forth).

 

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Career Diversity Summer Workshop at the University of Michigan

In summer of 2022, the workshop will be held from June 17-July 1 in Ann Arbor, MI, hosted by the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities.

Application Information

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UIC applications are due November 13, 2020 to the UIC Institute for the Humanities at huminst@uic.edu. Please contact us with any questions, at huminst@uic.edu or LVavra@uic.edu

The application file should contain:

  • A completed application cover sheet
  • A narrative (1,000 words maximum) explaining the applicant’s intended career trajectory and addressing the following questions:
    • What does “career diversity” mean to you and what do you know about career diversity in graduate education?
    • Why are you interested in attending the workshop?
    • What kinds of knowledge and skills are you seeking from the workshop? 
    • How do you envision sharing what you learn at the workshop with your colleagues, department, campus, and beyond?
    • What experiences have you had in applied or public humanities or public engagement?
    • What do you hope to achieve as a result of attending the workshop?
  • CV (two pages maximum)
  • Two letters of recommendation. One letter should be from the applicant’s primary adviser/dissertation chair; both should emphasize the applicant’s fit for this workshop
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We are delighted to share information about a Career Diversity Virtual Roundtable taking place on Thursday, August 27 at 4 pm via Zoom. This Roundtable is organized by the 2020-2025 Humanities Without Walls (HWW) Mellon Grant, which will offer Career Diversity Workshops in Summer 2021, 2022, and 2023. HWW is a nationally recognized player in the national career diversity sphere in higher education today. The Summer Workshop is an excellent opportunity for humanities doctoral students to cultivate skills for navigating the changing terrain of employment for PhDs in the public and private sectors, including higher education.

Competition deadline for the Summer 2021 Workshop will be late October 2020; full application materials and deadline will be circulated.

Join us for a kickoff of Humanities Without Walls’ (HWW) 2020-21 career diversity programming!

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