UCI Next Generation PhDs in the Humanities

FAIN: ZA-250687-16

Regents of the University of California, Irvine (Irvine, CA 92617-3066)
Julia R. Lupton (Project Director: February 2016 to present)

Planning by the University of California. Irvine (UCI) around four topics: 1) how to engage faculty and graduate students in rethinking PhD training and employment horizons; 2) ways to integrate multiple career path outcomes into graduate curriculum and training; 3) methods for creating community partnerships and mentoring opportunities; and 4) systems for documenting and disseminating information about post-doctoral career paths.

The University of California, Irvine’s School of Humanities has the structures to enable us to take on a leadership role in developing new models of humanities graduate education. Building on current and historic strengths in the area of PhD reform, we will use an NEH Planning Grant to explore ways to restructure graduate professionalization seminars for larger departments and to design School-wide graduate professionalization seminars for small programs that can leverage a critical mass of students so that these courses provide preparation for multiple career paths.

Associated Products

UCI Next Gen PhD Website (Web Resource)
Title: UCI Next Gen PhD Website
Author: Ryan Gurney
Abstract: Resources for graduate students, mentors and advisers exploring career paths in the humanities
Year: 2017
Primary URL: http://sites.uci.edu/nextgenphd/
Primary URL Description: Links, reports, tools

UCI School of Humanities Alumni Spotlight (Web Resource)
Title: UCI School of Humanities Alumni Spotlight
Author: http://www.humanities.uci.edu/graduate/gateway/index.php
Abstract: This new web resource features graduate student profiles and allows alumni to reconnect with the School of Humanities and share their stories.
Year: 2017

Humanites Out There Public Fellows Program (Web Resource)
Title: Humanites Out There Public Fellows Program
Author: Dr. Amanda Swain
Abstract: Our public fellows program places graduate students in meaningful research positions in local cultural organizations.
Year: 2017
Primary URL: http://www.humanities.uci.edu/commons/grad_resources/hot.php

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