"Graduate futures" underscores a commitment to recognizing that the humanities PhD may lead to faculty placements in a range of institutions of higher education, or museums, libraries, higher education administration, and other industries. Our initiatives focus on three areas important in graduate student professional development: research, teaching, and mentoring, with attention to the particular challenges that humanities scholars face. Humanities scholars have unique and critical contributions to offer to various publics and across diverse sectors.

As a humanities center, we prioritize:

1. Community building across departments;

2. Expanding how we understand, communicate, and materialize the value of humanistic research and teaching; and

3. Uninvisibilizing professional processes and systems related to higher education and the job market.

We manage the Humanities Out There Public and Higher Education Fellows Program, which is a paid summer internship for humanities PhD students, workshops on professional development, and a workshop series focused on career pathways.

Questions or suggestions for programming can be directed to SueJeanne Koh, ThD, Assistant Director of Graduate Futures and Research Engagement, at sj.koh@uci.edu.

To learn about research support for graduate students, visit this page.