After the PhD: Exploring Career Paths in the Humanities
At H-Grad, we have made a concerted effort to better utilize our network and its members to compile useful resources for our community. (Be sure to check out our ever-expanding list of links, especially those pertaining to teaching and TA resources!)
After the PhD: Exploring Career Paths in the Humanities
After the PhD: Teaching at a Community College with Dr. Brian Malone
Resource of the Month
By Kara Hisatake and Katie Trostel
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How To … Present Yourself Professionally (on a budget)
Summer is a great time to get work done, especially writing if you have no other teaching or course requirements. But how can you make sure you get work done and manage your time effectively? One method is a "writing bootcamp" and guest blogger Danielle Blalock Barefoot writes about what one is and her experience with one.
By Kara Hisatake and Katie Trostel
Pedagogy is one skill that graduate students are supposed to acquire over the course of their graduate career. One aspect of pedagogy that many of us deal with is teaching writing - in one way or another - from lab reports to thesis papers.
...particularly as the fall quarter tends to be full of other distracting tasks (Job market! Fellowship applications! Getting your teaching materials ready! Conference abstracts!)
In the coming months, I will be writing a series of "How-To" blog posts, each of which will focus on a digital tool that has been helpful to me in my graduate career. (Airtable! Scalar! StoryMaps! Medium! ...)
Last summer, Kerrie Holloway wrote a very useful Resource Blog for H-GRAD, “Reading about Writing.” Since a few of my favorite books were absent, my blog offers several additions to her suggested reading list. Writing a dissertation is a long process, and along the way it can be useful to stop and review some of the advice that’s out there on effective work habits, efficient writing/reading/researching and navigating personal obstacles.
How do you organize all of the primary source materials that go into writing your dissertation, conference paper, or academic article --particularly when oftentimes the argument you are making requir
Usually, the best way to write is just to write, but sometimes it's good to read what others say about the writing process to help you improve your writing or motivate you to begin writing. The following books have been recommended by fellow H-Grad subscribers as books that have helped them develop their writing throughout graduate school (now with handy Amazon links for more information!).
With digital humanities becoming increasingly important both inside and outside of the academy, grad students should pay attention to its current trends, methodologies, and projects. The following resource list provides information about organizations/networks, blogs, funding opportunities, publications, and universities associated with the growing field of digital humanities.
University Projects and Resources:
Cleveland State University: http://csudigitalhumanities.org/
