Finding a job in the postacademic world as a humanities Ph.D. can often be frustrating. The theory-intensive coursework of humanities doctoral programs does not directly lead to developing the ...

Many students come to their career advising appointments with just one question: What do Ph.D. (or master’s) students who earned a degree in my field go on to do professionally if they don’t become a ...

When Eliot Bates finished his Ph.D., in 2008, he quickly realized he could hardly have chosen a worse time to go looking for a permanent faculty post in the humanities. In spite of a paper trail of ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Panelists speak about their careers in humanities at the Institute for Humanitites Wednesday. Ruby ...

There is an academic department at Arizona State University that may surprise many people: More than 90% of undergraduates that do a local internship are employed when they graduate. The department?

In part three of a series of articles that looks at the humanities at Bowdoin today, we examine the evidence supporting the idea that studying the humanities helps Bowdoin graduates find jobs—and ...

A third round of funding will expand a program for recent PhDs in the humanities and social sciences to work on community projects at nonprofits across the nation. Recent PhD recipients in the ...

The humanities are an often misunderstood group of majors. Because non-humanities degrees like nursing and business, for example, seem to have a more clear post-collegiate track, some may think that ...

Maxwell Eller is majoring in classics and Arturo Padilla in religious studies for health professionals, both at the University of Arizona. “It helped my attention span in a world of YouTube and ...

At least 60 students from Normal Community and Normal West High Schools attended a career fair to explore careers in the ...

At 12:55 p.m. on a Thursday in early January, the double doors of Salon K at the Marriott Marquis in downtown Washington hung open like an unwanted hug. The space within had been optimistically set up ...

Is the chronic morale problem in the humanities — and many allied fields — attributable to tenured professors feeling trapped in positions they no longer want? Earlier this fall, I wrote about my ...