December 2021

Pitch Your Own Immersive Fellowship (PDF)

Students can create an immersive fellowship with 501(c)(3) organizations in the social impact sector, public sector institutions, or industry. Applications will be reviewed, and grants awarded, on a rolling basis and as long as resources last.

Applicants are strongly encouraged to schedule a consultation with the Humanities Engage team to discuss the viability of their prospective project. Additionally, applicants considering projects with organizations in the Pittsburgh region are requested to contact the Humanities Engage team first, so that they can help orient you to pre-existing contacts and liaise appropriately. Learn about the projects doctoral students did last year.

Immersive Dissertation Research Fellowship

This innovative, competitive two-term research fellowship supports Humanities dissertation projects that involve substantial professional development and will likely result in dissertation formats other than the conventional proto-monograph. Ph.D. students are expected to embed themselves within, or otherwise collaborate intensively with, institutions or communities as part of their Ph.D. research. For questions about eligibility and application requirements, students should contact their DGS. Applications are due February 1, 2022. Learn about this year's Immersive Dissertation Research Fellows.

Faculty Summer Stipends for Curricular Innovation (Summer 2022)

Summer stipends are available for DSAS Humanities graduate faculty who will commit two months in summer 2022 to designing a new graduate course with significant public and/or digital humanities scholarship components. Applications are due February 15, 2022.

For previous awardees' reflections on the curricular design experience and their syllabi, please see the Faculty Summer Stipends for Curricular Innovation page.

Faculty Mentor for Summer 2022 Immersive Fellowship Cohort

The Faculty Mentor will co-mentor the cohort of Curated Immersive Summer Fellows and Pitch Your Own Summer Immersives Fellows with their host organization supervisors and the Senior Director for Graduate Advising and Engagement for the Humanities. Applications are due February 15, 2022.

“This summer micro-internship not only allowed me to put my previous academic and mentoring experience into practice, but also gave me an understanding of contemporary pedagogical work outside the traditional classroom interaction.”

Manuel Garzon (Hispanic Languages and Literatures) found his summer 2021 administrative micro-internship to be deeply formative in terms of professionalism and teamwork. He also discovered his creativity as he helped to develop scripts for video-based case studies for The Mentoring Academy. Read his reflections to learn more about his experience with the University Center for Teaching and Learning.

• Dec 9 | Higher Ed Perspectives on how to Begin a Publicly Engaged Humanities Practice
• Dec 9 | Leaving Academia? Here's what you need to do to prepare
• Dec 14 | How to Negotiate for Your Next Opportunity
• Jan 13 | Supporting Humanities Faculty in Creating Engaged Courses
• Jan 27 | Scaling Up: Growing Public Humanities Projects Beyond Higher Ed
• Jan 27 | Writing an Effective Teaching Philosophy Statement

 

Did you miss one of our events? If so, we have highlights from our humanists of impact and professional development series saved in our Humanities Engage Programming Archive.

Building professional relationships is a strategic competency equally critical to success in the 21st-century academy and to postdoctoral Humanists’ careers in the non-profit sector, government, and industry and business. We collected the following resources to help you grow your network:

• Strategies to Develop Professional Relationships that Every Humanities Ph.D. Student Should Know (Humanities Engage event)
• Networking Resources (University of Chicago)
• Networking and Informational Interviewing (Beyond the Professoriate)
• Informational Interviews: The Key to Networking Success (PDF) (University of Chicago)
• Informational Interviewing. LinkedIn Learning Video Course (free institutional access through My.Pitt)

All the best,

Marques