Stories from the Field: A University of California Data Project This spring, Humanists@Work will release Stories from the Field, a full-color booklet detailing the narratives and numbers that give voice to some of the conditions and futures facing today’s UC humanities PhDs. Stories from the Field charts the economic outcomes and career trajectories for humanities…
UCHRI and Humanists@Work is a partner in the UC consortium of universities who received an Understanding PhD Career Pathways for Program Improvement grant from the Council of Graduate Schools. Currently, all 10 campuses of the UC system and the UC Office of the President are engaged in surveying UC PhDs at work in the world.…
UC Humanities PhDs share their stories as humanists at work in the world.
Reflections on Humanists@Work from the graduate students who helped lead the initiative.
Two Graduate Advisory Committee members discuss their experiences teaching for community college—where they themselves started their postsecondary careers.
HumWork team member Shana Melnysyn explores the concept of collaboration and how it is (or isn’t) used in the humanities.
Elizabeth Allen explores the term “humanistic,” arguing that the word both illuminates and hides the work of humanities PhDs, particularly to those outside the academy.
Two Graduate Advisory Committee members share their experiences as humanities PhD students taking business-oriented certificate programs.
Graduate Advisory Committee member Jacob Heim explores the question of whether it’s a good time to be pursuing a humanities PhD.
HumWork community member Sarah Papazoglakis discusses storytelling and professional narratives as she looks into careers in instructional design.
Gabriela Cázares looks at the term impostor syndrome—particularly for underrepresented students—asking the important question: when the university is not made for you, why would you want to fit in?
HumWork project director Kelly Anne Brown asks what sustainability means for grad student professionalizaiton in a university system dependent on cheap labor.
Former UCHRI intern Elizabeth Allen argues why the academic community should not be separate from the greater public.
UC Humanities PhDs share their stories as humanists at work in the world.
Podcast and video from the HumWork Riverside “Unbecoming Academic” session.
Graduate Advisory Committee member Maïko Le Lay explores whether humanities graduate students should consider pursuing certificate programs alongside their PhDs.
Current and past Graduate Advisory Committee members reflect on their experiences and the past, present, and future of Humanists@Work.
Video from the Debt and the Humanities session at HumWork Silicon Valley.
Video from the Stories from the Field session at HumWork Silicon Valley.
Rebecca Lippman outlines how to identify available training opportunities and relevant (paid) work experiences for humanities PhDs.
Graduate Advisory Committee member Dorie Perez reflects on the Humanists@Work Silicon Valley Workshop, particularly the conversation on debt.
Meg Sparling advocates for the need for doctoral students to explore careers early and to integrate this exploration into their research process to extract greater professional and personal value from their degree.
Sabrina Smith makes an argument for why humanities faculty should care about institutional and departmental tracking of doctoral students post-degree.
Graduate Advisory Committee member Rebecca Lippman describes the complexity of bridging the gap between academic experiences and employment opportunities.
Graduate Advisory Committee member Rebecca Lippman describes how humanities PhDs can find job opportunities in unexpected organizations.
Graduate Advisory Committee member Rebecca Lippman advises humanities PhDs on how (and where) to begin an exploratory job search.
Candid Conversations is an opportunity for faculty, graduate students, and university staff to engage in dialogue around the issue of debt, a topic that is inadequately addressed in conversations on career pathways and professionalization.
In this hands-on workshop, participants will discuss models to expand support for community-engaged teaching, research, and professional development in graduate programs and humanities centers across the University of California system.
Graduate Advisory Committee members present survey data addressing attitudes towards post degree employment, on-campus resources for career exploration, and feelings of support from departments, campuses, and peers.
HumWork team member Shane Breitenstein reflects on his experience as a graduate student at the Connected Academics Summer Institute
Kelly Anne Brown and Stacy Hartman describe their experiences planning the Connected Academics Summer Institute.
Connected Academics Summer Institute participants reflect on what it means to empower graduate students.
Graduate Advisory Committee member Helga Zambrano interviews professionals who focus on service learning at UC Los Angeles.
In this Stories from the Field video, Jessica Collier talks about how her career path took shape after receiving her PhD.
We asked the incoming Graduate Advisory Committee to discuss what they were looking forward to accomplishing during their tenure.
An argument for transforming the humanities to meet the needs of new constituencies, increasing the diversity of students and faculty, and stimulating a demand for rigorous humanistic inquiry as value, necessity, and right.
Video from the Building Collaborative Communities session.
Video from the Working from Within: Career Center Reflections on Humanities PhD Professionalization session.
Video from the Navigating a Path from Campus to Career session at HumWork Santa Barbara.
Video from the HumWork Santa Barbara Stories from the Field session.
We asked the outgoing Graduate Advisory Committee to describe what they thought was the biggest challenge HumWork continued to face when it came to graduate student professionalization.
Video from the Résumé Redux session at HumWork Los Angeles.
Video from the LinkedIn for Humanists session at HumWork Los Angeles.
Video from the HumWork LA Stories from the Field session.
Graduate Advisory Committee member Simon Abramowitsch interviews two PhDs candidates in the UC Davis English Department who conducted successful alt-ac job searches this year (Part II).
Graduate Advisory Committee member Simon Abramowitsch interviews two PhDs candidates in the UC Davis English Department who conducted successful alt-ac job searches this year (Part I).
HumWork community member Amanda Cornwall describes 10 Things Transitioning Academics Should Know about Office Work (Part II).
Candid conversations videos and the subsequent panel discussion at Humanists@Work Los Angeles provide opportunities to engage in open dialogue about the faculty-graduate student mentorship model, particularly as it relates to career training for diverse professions.
HumWork community member Amanda Cornwall describes 10 Things Transitioning Academics Should Know about Office Work (Part I).
John Marx and Molly McCarthy sit down with Simon Abramowitsch to discuss the launch of the Mellon Public Scholars Program at UC Davis
A national video dialogue between humanities PhD students, faculty, and PhDs at work in the world on the subject of mentorship, particularly as it relates to diverse careers.
Former UCHRI intern Ellie Kriegs reflects on her experiences working in academic administration.
Graduate Advisory Committee member Dana Linda interviews two women with humanities PhDs who are navigating careers in tech organizations.
An argument for a space for graduate students to discuss struggles, theorize about how best to resolves these issues, and discuss the resources available for implementing interventions.
In this podcast, Humanists@Work interviews four individuals with firsthand experience of the ACLS Public Fellows Program.
Graduate Advisory Committee member Christina Green offers advice for PhD students seeking to make the most out of their internships.
For our inaugural podcast, we tackle how the 2016 MLA convention in Austin responded to graduate student professionalization needs and concerns and look ahead to ways in which the university can better support graduate students.
Lauri Mattenson offers “reflections and resources” about expanding your professional identity in order to find the right kind of work.
Authentic networking is built on an exchange that is not transactional, and instead built upon engagements where we come into contact with one another with a desire to learn about, and share, expertise and interests.
A call to UC humanities faculty members to show up, listen, and get involved in HumWork activities.
Video from the Resume Redux session at HumWork Sacramento
Video from the Stories from the Field session at HumWork Sacramento.
Graduate Advisory Committee member Simon Abramowitsch argues that the #BlackLivesMatter movement should inspire humanists to think about the public-facing implications of their work.
Shawn Warner-Garcia offers guiding principles that helped her reimagine and redesign my resume.
HumWork community member Rob Schoenbeck advocates for a more experimental method of job searching.
Nicole Robinson advises humanities PhD students to rethink their narrative when they decide that it’s time to look for alternative careers.
Nicole Robinson advises graduate students in how to tackle job interviews in a way that showcases the potential contributions of humanities PhDs.
Inspired by the #thisiswhatanengineerlookslike and similar campaigns, we want to feature humanists at work in the world.
Marisol Cortez speaks of her work as a social movement-based scholar and community organizer in San Antonio, TX.
Kelly Anne Brown, UCHRI’s assistant director, talks about her transition from graduate school to university administration.
Laurel Seely Voloder talks about her transition from graduate school to an ACLS Public Fellows post doc with the State Department.
Video from the Exploring Career Options for Humanities PhD session of HumWork San Diego.
5 from a Professional is a series for Humanities PhDs to learn about a variety of career fields from leaders currently working in these positions.
At our Humanists@Work San Diego workshop, participants were invited to answer some questions posted around the room, either by making a sign and snapping a polaroid with it, or by using large sticky notes and construction paper.
Kelly Anne Brown responds to her own video interview about her experiences transitioning from graduate school into university administration.
Kelly Anne Brown and Anna Finn reflect back on the last year of work and look forward to the exciting new developments to come.
Video from the Art of the Informational Interview session at HumWork San Diego.
Video from the HumWork San Diego Stories from the Field session.
A reflection on the HCCW workshop.
Whitney De Vos outlines 12 steps for graduate students interested in shaping their graduate professional experiences to better prepare themselves for diverse careers (Part II).
Humanists@Work has received a $347,000 grant from the Modern Language Association’s Connected Academics initiative.
Whitney De Vos outlines 12 steps for graduate students interested in shaping their graduate professional experiences to better prepare themselves for diverse careers (Part I).
Kelly Anne Brown advocates for more internship opportunities for humanities PhDs.
