Category: Colleges & Universities
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Pandemic Pedagogy
Last week, I went by my school and cleaned out my classroom. Many of the nontenured teachers were not rehired back for next school year. I was nervous going to my school. I hadn’t been back to school since mid-March. California went on shelter-in-place and we received notice. All my little knickknacks were on the kidney…
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The time to reinvest in higher education is now
More than a week into worldwide protests against racial injustice in the United States, the glaring resource discrepancy between police departments and other public services—including health care, social services, and education—is more apparent than ever. Calls abound to reduce funding to police departments, and are already having an effect. NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio has…
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Graduate Education for the Public Good: Event Recap and Reflection
Event date: May 1, 2020 What a joy to gather, in the midst of a time of separation and loss, to talk about what we imagine for higher education. On Friday, May 1—Labor Day across much of the world—my colleagues and I hosted a digital forum on graduate education for the public good. That more…
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Scholar Spotlight: Jesslyn Parrish
Why did you apply to HASTAC? I applied to HASTAC after learning about it from my professors within the Texts & Technology PhD program. The Texts & Technology program focuses on understanding the interdisciplinary possibilities between the humanities and technology. My background is in anthropology and applied linguistics, and I returned to graduate school to…
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Postponing UCSC Residency in Solidarity with Striking Students
Sunday March 8th I sent the letter below to upper administration of the UC system, including President Napolitano. I sent this text along with additional comments directly to my hosts at the UCSC CITL, whose programming will be seriously impacted by my decision. I do not make this move lightly, but also we cannot proceed…
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Online M.S. in Applied Communication, Social Media Concentration
As a former HASTAC Scholar, I wanted to share this call for applications for a new program that I’ve developed with my colleagues at Fitchburg State University. We’re now accepting applications on a rolling basis for our second cohort in our M.S. in Applied Communication with a concentration in Social Media.I hope you’ll consider sharing…
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The Thought Project: Podcast episode on Putting the PhD to Work and the CUNY Humanities Alliance
I was delighted to join the Graduate Center’s Director of Media Relations, Tanya Domi, on January 15, 2020 to record an episode of The Thought Project podcast. In our 30-minute conversation, we talked about Putting the Humanities Ph.D. to Work: Thriving in and Beyond the Classroom, which will be published by Duke University Press in…
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$3.15 Million Mellon Foundation Grant Goes to The Graduate Center, CUNY to Support Humanities Teaching Initiative
The grant funds partnerships between The Graduate Center and four CUNY community colleges and supports 28 doctoral fellowships aimed at enhancing opportunities for students to engage with the humanities. NEW YORK, January 15, 2020 — The Graduate Center of The City University of New York has been awarded a second $3.15 million grant from The…
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Submit a Proposal for HASTAC 2020! (Deadline Extended to March 1)
Call for Proposals Cross-posted from https://hastac2020.org/. The 2020 international conference of HASTAC (the Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory, or “haystack”) will be hosted by the School of Arts, Technology, and Emerging Communication at The University of Texas at Dallas (ATEC@UTD) on October 15-18, 2020. The theme of HASTAC 2020 is Hindsight •…
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Putting the Humanities PhD to Work: Updates, abstracts, and more
I’m delighted to share that Putting the Humanities PhD to Work is in production at Duke University Press, and should be out in the world in time for Fall 2020! It has a fresh new subtitle (Thriving in and Beyond the Classroom), and a structure that has been much improved thanks to thoughtful comments and…