March 2022

Are you looking for summer funding? Do you want to gain professional development experience with a cohort of fellow Humanities PhD students? If so, check out the following Humanities Engage opportunities. Applications due April 1st.

Summer Immersive Fellowships (Curated & Pitch Your Own)

• collaborate with a host organization of your choice
• gain experience that can impact your research and dissertation
• explore how your academic training can translate into a variety of careers

Curricular Development Opportunity for PhD Students

• collaborate with a faculty mentor and librarians, archivists, and curators, as needed
• gain leadership experience in curricular development and pedagogy
• create innovative curricular content for your teaching portfolio

Interested and want to learn more? Make an appointment with Melissa Lenos, the Senior Director of Graduate Advising and Engagement for the Humanities.

You can apply to multiple opportunities but can only accept one Humanities Engage fellowship or grant of any type over the summer.

“I am passionate about advancing my skills in the field of Linguistics and that begins with being taught and teaching others to perform digital scholarship and utilize digital methodologies properly.”

Before collaborating with Dr. Dan Villareal on a curriculum development module, Alexus Brown (Linguistics) had minimal teaching experience. Read her reflections to learn how she gained new pedagogical skills and created an abbreviated guide for the hands-on teaching of a transcription program that could be used in future iterations of the class.

• Mar 15 | Humanities Engage Summer Funding Info Session
• Mar 16 | Entering Mentoring: Maximizing Mentoring Skills
• Mar 16 | Standing Out in a Competitive Job Market
• Mar 17 | Mentoring Academy | Second Session
• Mar 18 | Next-Generation Dissertations
• Mar 21 | Mentoring and Advising Relationships: What Skills Am I Developing?
• Mar 23 | Constructing A Resume for Employers Outside of Academia
• Mar 24 | Teaching with Equity
• Mar 25 | Research Collaboration: A Path Beyond the Academy
• Mar 25 | Leaving academia? Here’s what you need to do to prepare
• Mar 28 | Building My Networks and Engagement in Communities
• Apr 4 | Putting It All Together: How Do I Articulate and Implement a Career Development Plan?

 

Make a one-on-one appointment today with Dr. Melissa Lenos, Senior Director of Graduate Advising and Engagement, to discuss:

• Succeeding in doctoral study (productivity, time management, etc.)
• Setting professional development goals and marshaling resources
• Honing strategic competencies
• Establishing and maintaining strong mentoring networks
• Preparing for interviews and job searches in all sectors

Email melissalenos@pitt.edu to schedule.

Leonard Cassuto and Robert Weisbuch encourage all of us in higher education to consider the value of public scholarship: “communicating scholarly expertise to a nonexpert public to initiate interest and understanding.” To achieve this, we develop a sort of “bilingualism” in which we translate our scholarly work for a broader audience.

Humanities Engage offers several types of summer funding to help humanities doctoral students hone their public scholarship bilingualism, while exploring ways you might use your academic capabilities in a variety of sectors to promote causes you are passionate about or to consider the diversity of your future career options.

This month’s tip is simple: make an appointment with me to explore your summer funding options! In the meantime, read about our funding awardees’ projects or listen to them talking about their experiences in our programming archive:

• Advocacy
• Arts & Culture
• Curriculum Development
• Non-Profit Sector
• Higher Education Administration
• Immersive Fellowships
• K-12 Education