"Graduate futures" underscores a commitment to recognizing that the humanities PhD may lead to faculty placements in a range of institutions of higher education, or museums, libraries, higher education administration, and other industries. Our initiatives focus on three areas are important in graduate student professional development: research, teaching, and mentoring, with attention to the particular challenges that humanities scholars face. Humanities scholars have unique and critical contributions to offer to various publics and across diverse sectors.
As a humanities center, we prioritize:
- Community building across departments;
- Expanding how we understand, communicate, and materialize the value of humanistic research and teaching; and
- Uninvisibilizing professional processes and systems related to higher education and the job market.
We collaborate with graduate students, faculty, and staff within the School of Humanities, as well as with the Division of Career Pathways, Grad Division, Beall Applied Innovation, and other schools across UC Irvine.
Under the Graduate Futures Program, we manage the Humanities Out There Public and Higher Education Fellows Program, which is a paid summer internship for humanities PhD students, workshops on professional development. and a workshop series focused on career pathways.
Questions or suggestions for programming, as well as review of external, national, and international grant applications can be directed to SueJeanne Koh, ThD, Assistant Director of Graduate Futures and Research Engagement, at sj.koh@uci.edu.
We've provided a list of additional resources from our partners below; please reach out to those contacts directly for the most current information.
