Graduate Center PhD student and Mellon Humanities Public Fellow Daniel Valtueña asks what sorts of public after lives might we envision for our final papers.
Year: 2019
3 Things I Learned at the LA Review of Books Summer Publishing Workshop
Graduate Center PhD student Sara Cordón discusses her experience at the LA Review of Books Publishing Workshop on a PublicsLab fellowship in July 2019.
Call for Proposals: Graduate Education at Work in the World (CLOSED)
Deadline: 15 October 2019. The Futures Initiative and PublicsLab of the Graduate Center, CUNY invite submissions for a free day-long conference and workshop: Graduate Education at Work in the World. The conference will bring together students, faculty, and administrators to collectively imagine and redesign graduate education to support students, scholarship, and the public good.
Research Ethics Intern (CLOSED)
FALL 2019. The Research Ethics Intern will manage the development of new standards and procedures related to human subjects protections in ACLU’s research efforts, including criteria for review, training opportunities, and resources for compliance, such as informed consent templates and other standard form language. Applications will be accepted until 10 June 2019.
Process Improvement and Evaluation Intern (CLOSED)
FALL 2019. The Process Improvement and Evaluation Intern will help support the ability of Lenox Hill Neighborhood House to create, analyze, and use data to improve client services, program operations, and organizational efficiency. The primary focus of this internship will be assisting in the development of a predicative algorithm to better balance caseloads in the Geriatric Care Management program. Applications will be accepted until 10 June 2019.
Doctoral Curriculum Enhancement Grants (DCEG) for departments and programs
In the 2019–2020 academic year, four $8000 DCEGs will be given to support the development and implementation of new curricular methods and strategies that approach the following question: How can our program support graduate students in doing public scholarship and preparing for careers both inside and outside the academy?
Reimagining Doctoral Curriculum for the Public Good (REGISTRATION CLOSED)
A workshop for faculty members and graduate students in the humanities and humanistic social sciences at The Graduate Center, CUNY. […]
Advice on Moving Toward Engaging Public Scholarship
Sean Gerrity, assistant professor of English at Hostos Community College, reflects on public scholarship and offers advice for how to do it well.
PublicsLab / Los Angeles Review of Books Fellowship (CLOSED)
The LARB/USC Publishing Workshop is an intensive, three-week summer course on book, magazine, and online publishing held on the University of Southern California campus, 7–26 July 2019. Deadline: 15 April 2019.
Let In the World
In the past five years, I have talked to a lot of people about why they chose not to pursue academic jobs after graduate school––a choice that is more common than people assume. Geography might be the number one reason that I hear; not everyone is willing to throw a dart at a map of North America (or the world, for that matter) and live wherever it lands, which is essentially what one does on the academic job market. But very close behind it is this:
“I found academic research in the humanities to be too isolating. Sitting in a library carrel alone all day made me miserable.”
