All HWW-AHA Faculty Institute events will be held at the Genevieve and Wayne Gratz Center at Fourth Presbyterian Church, 126 E. Chestnut St, Chicago, Illinois (at N. Michigan Ave.).

Maggie Nettesheim Ho�mann262-227-1068

Andreea Micu 979-595-8785

Antoinette Burton 217-419-1495

Jason Mierek 217-853-8795

HWW-AHA Faculty Institute Syllabus & BibliographyJuly 25–26, 2019 • Chicago, Illinois

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“INTRODUCTION TO NATIONAL CAREER DIVERSITY PROJECTS, GRADUATE STUDENT OUTCOMES, & BRAINSTORMING PHD PROGRAMMING DEVELOPMENT”

1. Welcome from Antoinette Burton, 8:30–9:00am • Co�ee & Breakfast

2. Session 1—Why the Data Matters: Introduction to the American Historical Association’s Career Diversity for Historians Initiative, 9:15–10:45am

• James Grossman, Executive Director, AHA • Emily Swa�ord, Director of Academic and Professional A�airs, AHA • Dylan Ruediger, Coordinator, Career Diversity for Historians and Institutional Research,

AHA

Co�ee Break, 10:45–11am

3. Session 2—Career Diversity and the Graduate Student Experience, 11–12:30pm • Jason Mierek, Director of Operations, Humanities Without Walls • Maggie Nettesheim Ho�mann, PhD Candidate at Marquette University, Project Director for

Humanities Without Walls & HWW 2017 Fellow • Olivia Hagedorn, PhD Candidate at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and

2019 MLA Career Development Bootcamp Fellow • Matthew Reeves, PhD Candidate at the University of Missouri at Kansas City, HWW 2017

Fellow, and AHA Career Diversity Fellow

4. Working Lunch at the Gratz Center, Getting Honest: What is the Purpose of a PhD? 12:30–1:30pm

A�ernoon Break: 1:30–2pm

5. Session 3—Small Group Conversation #1: Changing Hats, 2–3:15pm

Co�ee Break, 3:15–3:30pm

6. Session 4—Small Group Conversation #2: Strategies for Using the Whole University, Group Design Project, 3:30–5pm

Day 1: Thursday July 25, 2019 — Gratz Room 4G

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“CAREER DIVERSITY WITH THE MELLON FOUNDATION”

1. Breakfast—8–9am

2. Session 1—Humanities Without Walls Fellowship Alums, 9–10:30am • Emily Lacy, University of Illinois at Chicago, HWW 2017 Fellow • Robert Smith III, The Surdna Foundation, HWW 2015 Fellow • Sara Thiel, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, HWW 2016 Fellow

Co�ee Break, 10:45–11am

3. Session 2: History of Career Diversity Projects, 10:45am–Noon • Antoinette Burton, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and PI, Humanities Without

Walls • James Grossman, Executive Director, American Historical Association • Eugene Tobin, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

4. Lunch: Noon–1pm

5. Session 3—Graduate Lab Practicum and HWW Research Challenge, 1:15–2:15pm • Sara Černe, PhD Candidate, Northwestern University • Bonnie Etherington, PhD Candidate, Northwestern University • Tara Hatfield, PhD Candidate, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Co�ee Break, 2:15–2:30pm

6. Session 4: Humanities for the Public Good, 2:30–3:30pm • Teresa Mangum, Director, Obermann Center for Advanced Studies, University of Iowa

7. Session 5: How the Humanities Can Inform STEM, 3:45–5pm • Holly Falk-Krzenski, Vice President for Research Intelligence, Elsevier

Day 2: Friday, July 26, 2019 — Gratz Anderson Hall

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2019 Career Diversity Bibliography

Career Advising

This bibliography categorizes current research and best practices within career diversity discourses to help justify the structure of the 2019 HWW predoctoral fellowship workshop and faculty institutes. We have constructed themes and sub-categories within this bibliography to further distinguish the literature.

Attig, Derek. “Examining various job ads can help you explore your career,” Inside Higher Ed, April 3, 2017.

__________. “How to feel less alone when reconsidering your career goals,” Inside Higher Ed, September 25, 2017.

__________. “What to do Immediately A�er an Interview,” Inside Higher Ed, October 22, 2018.

Bartha, Miriam. “Skill,” Keywords for American Cultural Studies. https://keywords.nyupress.org/american-cultural-studies/essay/skill/

Bartram, Erin. “Before You Write a Cover Letter for a Nonfaculty Job, Try This Exercise,” The Chronicle of Higher Education, September 18, 2018.

Basalla, Suand and Maggie Debelius. “So, What Are You Going to Do with That?”: Finding Careers Outside Academia. Third Edition. University of Chicago Press: Chicago, 2014.

Bolles, Richard Nelson. What Color is Your Parachute? 2019: A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers. Revised, updated edition. Ten Speed Press: 2018.

Fruscione, Joseph and Kelly J. Baker. Succeeding Outside the Academy: Career Paths beyond the Humanities, Social Sciences, and STEM. University of Kansas Press, 2018.

Hagedorn, Olivia. “Gains and Losses: Evaluating What Matters Most When it Comes to Career,” Perspectives on History, April 30, 2019.

Hartman, Stacy. “LinkedIn Tips for Humanities PhDs,” Connected Academics, April 30, 2018.

Layton, Rebekah. “Harnessing the Power of Systematic Career Exploration,” Inside Higher Ed, May 21, 2019.

Magaldi, Thomas. “3 Informational Interview Mistakes,” Inside Higher Ed, July 2, 2018.

Newhouse, Margaret. Outside the Ivory Tower: A Guide for Academics Considering Alternative Careers. Harvard University O�ice of Career: 1993.

Polk, Jennifer and L. Maren Wood. “Preparing for a Non-Academic Job,” Inside Higher Ed, August 8, 2018.

Rogers, Katina. Putting the Humanities PhD to Work: Theory, Practice, and Models for Thriving Beyond the Classroom, Duke University Press [forthcoming, book under contract]. For an abstract and outline , of the book proposal, please see: https://www.hastac.org/blogs/katina-rogers/2018/01/09/putting-humanities-phd-work

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Career Diversity Critiques & ResponsesBessner, Daniel and Michael Brenes. “A Moral Stain on the Profession,” The Chronicle of Higher Education,

April 26, 2019.

Grossman, James. “How Not to Confront the Jobs Crisis,” The Chronicle of Higher Education, May 2, 2019.

Career StoriesBaker, Kelly J. Grace Period: A Memoir in Pieces. Snowraven Books, 2017.

Banner, James M. and John R. Gillis, eds. Becoming Historians. University of Chicago Press, 2009.

Fruscione, Joseph. “Leaving Academia: My Advice,” The Consulting Editor, https://jfruscione.com/writing/leaving-academia/.

Ne�, Rachel. Chasing Chickens: When Life A�er Higher Education Doesn’t Go the Way You Planned. University of Kansas Press, 2019.

Rose, Katie. “Bridging Academia,” Chronicle Vitae, March 7, 2017.

Faculty TrainingCassuto, Leonard. “Can You Train Your PhDs for Diverse Careers When You Don’t Have One?” The Chronicle of

Higher Education, August 22, 2018.

Dalgleish, Melissa. “Supporting Your Supervisees in Career Exploration,” Inside Higher Ed, February 11, 2019.

Duckles, Beth M. “What Departments Can Do to Support Post-Ac PhD Students, Part 1,” Medium, July 5, 2018.

Flaherty, Colleen. “Graduate Education Reform, Starting With Advising,” Inside Higher Ed, January 10, 2019.

Grossman, James. “Hierarchy and Needs: How to Dislodge Outdated Notions of Advising,” Perspectives on History, September 2, 2018.

Harris, Adam. “The Death of an Adjunct,” The Atlantic, April 8, 2019.

Kim, Joshua. “Defining Alt-Ac Before We Systematize Alternative Academic Career Guidance: Responding to Zeb Larson,” Inside Higher Ed, November 25, 2018.

Larson, Zeb. “We Need to Systematize Alt-Ac Career Guidance,” Inside Higher Ed, November 21, 2018.

Okahana, Hironao and Timothy Kinoshita. “Closing Gaps in our Knowledge of PhD Career Pathways: How Well Did a Humanities PhD Prepare Them?” PhD Career Pathways: A Project of the Council of Graduate Schools, October 2018. https://cgsnet.org/sites/default/files/RESEARCH%20BRIEF.pdf

Pettit, Emma. “What the Numbers Can Tell Us About Humanities Ph.D. Careers,” The Chronicle of Higher Education, January 6, 2019.

Faculty Training (Cont.)

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Graduate Student Agency / Value of CollaborationJames, Alfreda. “Graduate Students, Take Charge,” Inside Higher Ed, July 23, 2018.

Kruger, Philipp. “Why it is not a ‘failure’ to leave academia,” Nature, August 1, 2018.

PodcastsMcCarthy, Monica. The Happier Hour: Life Outside Academia.

Posselt, Julie R. Inside Graduate Admissions: Merit, Diversity, and Faculty Gate-Keeping. Harvard University Press, 2016.

Rogers, Katina. “Humanities Unbound: Supporting Careers and Scholarship Beyond the Tenure Track,” Digital Humanities Quarterly, Vol. 9, No. 1, 2015.

Ruediger, Dylan. “The 2019 AHA Jobs Report: A Closer Look at Faculty Hiring,” Perspectives on History, January 28, 2019.

Swa�ord, Emily and Dylan Ruediger. “Every Historian Counts,” Perspectives on History, July 9, 2018.

Public Humanities and Research ProjectsAdams, Liam. “The Humanities’ Place in Research Spending,” The Chronicle of Higher Education, August 20,

2018.

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. “Humanities Without Walls: Scholars in the Midwest Partner to Solve Today’s Challenges,” from the Shared Experiences Blog, May 2019. https://mellon.org/resources/shared-experiences-blog/humanities-without-walls-changing-conversation-humanities-research/

Almquist, Julka and Julia Lupton. “A�ording Meaning: Design-Oriented Research from the Humanities and Social Sciences.” Design Issues: Vol. 26, No. 1, Winter 2010.

Brooks, Peter and Hilary Jewett. The Humanities and Public Life. Fordham University Press: 2014.

Ciadella, Joseph Stanhope. “Connecting Public Scholarship and Professional Development,” Inside Higher Ed, August 27, 2018.

Ellison, Julie. “Doors, Departments, and the Public Humanities,” Profession. https://profession.mla.org/doors-departments-and-the-public-humanities/

Johnson, Sydney. “University Data Science Programs Turn to Ethics and the Humanities,” EdSurge, January 11, 2019.

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Public Humanities and Research Projects (Cont.)

Steiner, David and Mark Bauerlein. “Important Ways to Revitalize the Humanities,” Inside Higher Ed, April 2, 2019.

Summer, Doris. The Work of Art in the World. Duke University Press: Durham, 2014.

Winling, LaDale. “Getting Tenure With Digital History,” Perspectives on History, April 8, 2019.

Values

Gibbs Jr., Kenneth J. and K.A. Gri�in. “What do I want to be with my PhD? The roles of personal values and structural dynamics in shaping the career interests of recent biomedical science PhD graduates,” CBE - Life Sciences Education, Vol. 12. No. 4 (Winter 2014): 711-723.

Paul, L.A. and John Quiggin. “The Transformative Experience of Graduate Study in Philosophy,” Daily Nous, March 28, 2019. http://dailynous.com/2019/03/28/transformative-experience-graduate-study-philosophy-paul-quiggin/

Wedemeyer-Strombel, Kathryn. R. “The Ph.D. Identity Crisis,” The Chronicle of Higher Education, March 4, 2019.

AHA's The Career Diversity Five Skills - https://www.historians.org/jobs-and-professional-development/career-diversity-for-historians/career- diversity-resources/five-skills

.AHA’s Career Diversity for Historians initiative -

https://www.historians.org/jobs-and-professional-development/career-diversity-for-historians

Connected Academics - https://connect.mla.hcommons.org/

Carpe Careers - https://www.insidehighered.com/career-advice/carpe-career

Career Exploration Tools & Resources for Medievalists & Other Humanities PhDs - https://katiehodgeskluck.wordpress.com/2019/03/27/career-exploration-tools-resources-for- medievalists-other-humanities-phds/

ImaginePhD - https://www.imaginephd.com/

MLA's Guide for PhD Programs and Faculty Members in English and Other Modern Languages - https://connect.mla.hcommons.org/doctoral-student-career-planning-faculty-toolkit/

MLA's Doctoral Student Career Planning Toolkit Download - https://connect.mla.hcommons.org/doctoral-student-career-planning-a-guide-for-phd-programs-and- faculty-members-in-english-and-other-modern-languages/

Websites: General Advice and National Projects

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Websites: General Advice and National Projects (Cont.)

MLA's Transferable Skills and How to Talk About Them - https://connect.mla.hcommons.org/resource-transferable-skills-and-how-to-talk-about-them/

Helping Students Prepare for Humanities Careers: Recommendations for Faculty Members - https://connect.mla.hcommons.org/helping-students-prepare-for-humanities-careers-recommendations-for-faculty-members/

What can you do with that PhD?: FAQs about non-academic jobs - https://blogs.plos.org/thestudentblog/2014/04/22/faqs-about-non-academic-jobs-jane-hu/

Talks about translating PhD skills into non-academic settings - https://www.findaphd.com/advice/doing/phd-non-academic-careers.aspx

Information on the Foundation Field, Foundation Center - http://foundationcenter.org/

Non-Academic Career Options for PhDs in the Humanities and Social Sciences - https://www.careereducation.columbia.edu/tips-resources

Created for PhDs in history, but broadly applicable information - http://beyondacademe.com/index.html

10 Tips for Developing an Alternate Career While in Graduate School - https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/career-transitions/201110/10-tips-developing-alternate-career-while-in-graduate-school

Questions to ask yourself when deciding on a career direction - https://www.chronicle.com/article/How-to-Do-What-You-Love/46105/

Occupational Outlook Handbook - https://www.bls.gov/ooh/

Uptowork: Resume Writing - https://uptowork.com/blog/resume-writing

Humanities for the Public Good, University of Iowa - https://uihumanitiesforthepublicgood.com