As a humanities center, we prioritize:
- Community building between 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.
"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 four areas that have emerged as important in graduate student professional development: research, teaching, mentoring, and service, with particular attention to the challenges that humanities scholars face. Humanities scholars have unique and critical contributions to offer to various public and across diverse sectors.
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.
Questions about post-PhD career pathways, external funding, summer internships, and related topics can email SueJeanne Koh, ThD, Assistant Director of Graduate Futures and Research Engagement, at sj.koh@uci.edu.
Questions about the Humanities Center’s internal grants, assistance and material feedback for external, national, and international grant applications, email Amanda Swain, PhD, Executive Director, at ajswain@uci.edu.
