ASU hosts Connected Academics Summer Institute 2017: Mentoring, Sustainability, and Advice for Faculty and Students
September 28th, 2017
On September 13–15, 2017, members of the Georgetown Reinvent the PhD team met with other Connected Academics partners in Phoenix, Arizona for the second annual Connected…
Beyond Academia Career Expo 2018
March 16th, 2017
Upcoming Career Expo: June 2018 On Saturday, June 23, 2018, ReinventPhD will host its second Career Expo for humanities scholars. This all-day expo will serve as the…
Check out the results of our course development project!
August 15th, 2016
In the Spring semester, we gathered a group of 9 faculty members from DC area universities who re-designed their existing graduate course to connect scholarly training with preparing graduate students for public engagement and non-academic intellectual work. The group’s work culminated in a poster session at Georgetown’s Annual Teaching, Learning & Innovation Summer Institute in May 2016, where the group members presented their re-designed courses. You can find these posters on our Course Development page. There, you can also find video interviews with some of the participants of the event.
…Kathryn Temple presents at Canadian Future of the Humanities PhD Conference
May 17th, 2016
Kathryn Temple, Principal Investigator of Connected Academics @ Georgetown, will explore the Canadian version of our project. The Future of the PhD in the Humanities conference at Carleton University is the follow up to a groundbreaking conference on the same theme that was held last year at McGill University. This year’s conference will focus on how changes in doctoral education might be implemented.…
Sara Guyer: The Humanities of Tomorrow, May 6
April 8th, 2016
Please join us for our next talk with Sara Guyer about the “humanities of tomorrow” and Guyer’s work as the direction of the Center for the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. May 6, 10 to 11:30 am, in the Graduate School Conference Room (Car Barn 427).…
Scott Krawczyk: Articulating the Value of the Humanities to the Larger World
March 2nd, 2016
Please join us for our lunch talk with Scott Krawczyk about the value of the humanities to a larger world and new new directions for doctoral curricula in the humanities. The talk will be on March 18, 12:30 to 2 pm in the Graduate School Conference Room (Car Barn 427).…
Scholarly Communication Symposium On Humanities Research on April 7
February 23rd, 2016
Save the date for the Scholarly Communication Symposium on humanities research on April 7, 2016, 10-noon in the Murray Room of Lauinger Library. The symposium will examine how humanities research might be more broadly disseminated, allowing humanists to reach key audiences.…
Video of Sidonie Smith Talk
February 9th, 2016
Check out our video of Sidonie Smith's talk about the future of doctoral education in the humanities.
…PhD Program in Interdisciplinary and Public Humanities
December 23rd, 2015
We are seeking faculty to participate in the development of a new PhD program in Interdisciplinary Humanities and Public Humanities under the auspices of the Graduate School. We will be meeting monthly during the spring semester to produce a detailed proposal for this new doctoral program. We are hoping to involve the traditional humanities disciplines, but also disciplines outside the humanities, in the sciences and social sciences. If you like to contribute to this project, please contact Kathryn Temple at templek@georgetown.edu no later than January 5, 2016.
…Georgetown team members attend Connected Academics Summer Institute at UC Irvine
October 24th, 2016
From September 14 to 16, faculty and staff from Georgetown attended the 2016 Connected Academics Summer Institute at UC…
