At Northwestern….
Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities – Public Humanities at Northwestern
- Kaplan supports public humanities initiatives, including Poetry in the Schools and The Odyssey Project, and a graduate assistantship
Center for Civic Engagement – Graduate Engagement Opportunities
- The GEO Community Practicum is a partnership between the Center for Civic Engagement and The Graduate School. Admitted students commit to working 10-20 hours a week at a community organization and take CFS 495: Civic Engagement and Graduate Education, a for-credit faculty-led seminar exploring the role of the academy in the public sphere. Humanities PhDs have been placed at organizations including the Art Institute, Illinois Humanities, Newberry Library, and Sierra Club
- CCE supports two graduate assistantships each year
Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art
- The Block Museum is Northwestern University’s art museum. Each year, the Block mounts exhibitions; organizes and hosts lectures, symposia, and workshops involving artists, scholars, curators, and critics; and screens classic and contemporary films at its in-house cinema.
…and beyond
Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life
- Dedicated to engaged scholarship, IA is a consortium of colleges, universities and community partners. Annual programming includes a national conference and cultural organizing institutes, and collaborative research and action projects.
Career Exploration & Professional Development
American Council of Learned Societies – Mellon/ACLS Public Fellows Program
- The Mellon/ACLS Public Fellows program places recent PhDs from the humanities and humanistic social sciences in two-year staff positions at partnering organizations in government and the nonprofit sector
American Historical Association – Career Diversity Resources
- Career Contact, a service matching historians employed beyond the professoriate with graduate students and recent PhDs
- Sample assignments and syllabi for faculty to support grad students in exploring careers
- Interactive database and study of career outcomes for History Ph.Ds
- Bibliography and video database
Humanities Without Walls – Alt-Ac Summer Workshops for Pre-doctoral Students in the Humanities
- This project aims to help prepare doctoral students for careers both within and outside the academy through a series of summer workshops, facilitated by the Chicago Humanities Festival.
Modern Languages Association – Connected Academics
- Career Exploration Activity Packet with skills self-assessment, job ad analysis, and action steps
- Blog, bibliography and video database
