Tag: academia

Episode 12 | Campus Leaders on Higher Education Reform

In this episode, Dr. Assata Zerai, Vice President for Equity and Inclusion at the University of New Mexico, and Dr. Doug Woods, Dean of the Graduate School at Marquette University, discuss career diversity, interdisciplinary scholarship, and how humanities doctoral training plays a role in the work of higher education administration.



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Episode 11 | Faculty Perspectives on Graduate Education in the Humanities

In this episode, Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Illinois at Chicago, Catherine Becker, and Marquette University’s Harry G. John Professor of History and Director of the Center for Urban Research, Teaching and Outreach, Robert S. Smith, discuss faculty perspectives on humanities and potential for graduate education reforms.

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Episode 10 | Collaboration and Career Diversity in the Humanities

In this episode, Yan Pang, PhD and Elja Roy, PhD discuss their graduate work and how collaborative and publicly engaged research can create new professional opportunities for humanities graduate students both beyond as well as within the academy.

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Episode 9 | Non-Profit Careers for Humanities PhDs

In this Episode, Dawn Opel, J.D., Ph.D., Director of Research & Strategic Initiatives, and General Counsel at Food Bank Council of Michigan joined PhD Futures Now for a conversation about the advantages and challenges of non-profit careers for Humanities PhDs.

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Episode 6 | Career Diversity and the Public Humanities Part II

In this episode, Dr. Kantara Souffrant, Assistant Professor of Nonwestern/Global Arts History and Visual Culture at Illinois State University and Curator of Community Dialogue at the Milwaukee Art Museum, joins us to discuss her work in the public humanities, and her transition from academia to a career in public art and community engagement.

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PhD Futures Now! Teaser – 3

In this clip from one of our upcoming PhD Futures Now! episodes, Lisa Betty (PhD Candidate, Fordham University) unpacks the broken promise of graduate education especially for black women and women of color. 

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PhD Futures Now! Teaser – 2

In this trailer, Maggie Nettesheim Hoffmann, co-host of PhD Futures Now!, talks about the most significant problem for graduate education in the Humanities today. 

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PhD Futures Now! Teaser – 1

In this teaser, Dr. Antoinette Burton, Professor of History at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and Principal Investigator of the Humanities Without Walls (HWW) Consortium talks about what is her most pressing question for the future of Humanities higher education in the United States. 

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