The Humanities Center Graduate Futures Program is hosting a mini-symposium on funding and career pathways for humanities graduate students. You'll hear from ACLS and NEH program officers, as well as learn from a research development officer from UC Santa Cruz. Lunch will be provided. Please register at this link: https://forms.gle/MMWTwcWb8L1TH8a69 no later than Dec. 2nd. Contact SueJeanne Koh at sj.koh@uci.edu for questions.
Generously sponsored by the Council of Graduate Schools and the University of California's Office of the President Multi-Purpose Research Initiative
Schedule
9-10:30: ACLS fellowships with Alison Chang, PhD (ACLS) and Writing a Research Narrative with Caitlin Charos (UCSC Research Development)
10:45-11:15: The landscape of graduate research funding with John Paul Christy, PhD (ACLS) and Claudia Kinkela, PhD (NEH) (virtual)
11:15-12:00: Careers in grantmaking and research development with Alison Chang and Caitlin Charos
1-2:30: Why do people give to the humanities? Moderated by Gregory Cox (SOH Executive Director of Development); Panelists: Ysa Le (Vietnamese American Association of Arts and Letters (VAALA) Executive Director); Marissa Gavin (20204 VAALA Humanities Out There Grant Development Fellow); Suzanne Hanna (humanities donor); Mark Fiocco (Associate Professor of Philosophy; director of TH!NK program)