PhD Futures Now! is a podcast on collaboration, career diversity, and graduate education in the Humanities. This podcast is a project of Humanities Without Walls, a sixteen university consortium headquartered at the Humanities Research Institute at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. We have full new episodes coming in April 2021! Check our home page for the latest episodes.
Producer, PhD Futures Now!
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, George Mason University
Host, PhD Futures Now!
Principal Investigator, Humanities Without Walls and Professor of History, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Host, PhD Futures Now! Director of Operations, Humanities Without Walls
Host, PhD Futures Now! Associate Director of Career Diversity, Humanities Without Walls
Host, PhD Futures Now! Program Coordinator, Humanities Without Walls
We have a commitment to our higher education institutions being social escalators…
Dr. Antoinette Burton
The most significant challenge in higher education is the fact that finance has a huge interest in perpetuating the unsustainability of higher ed the way that it is…
Jason Mierek
I worry as someone whose life has been enhanced by working on a PhD in the humanities, and doing that type of research, and expanding my own knowledge, that we are going to be limiting access to education for historically underserved populations…
Maggie Nettesheim-Hoffman
The beauty of Humanities Without Walls is, is that it gives a sense of individual agency to graduate students when those sort of structural things aren’t necessarily in place in every PhD program. It gives students a toolkit to take advantage of whatever opportunities are around on their own campus or across the country.
Peggy Brennan
“Antoinette, we should do a podcast!”
Dr. Deepthi Murali