Persuasive Interviewing and Negotiation Tips for Humanities PhDs with Annie Maxfield Excelling in interview settings is a skill that requires thought, practice, and confidence. During this interactive workshop, attendees will practice and refine their interviewing skills by learning persuasive techniques that enhance their storytelling abilities and highlight their key contributions. Annie Maxfield is the associate […]

"Undisciplining Your Research: A Hands-On Workshop to Translate Academic Humanities Research for Multiple Publics" Event Photos: Panelists:  - Sarah Papazoglakis, PhD Candidate, Literature - Kara Hisatake, PhD Candidate, Literature & MLA Public Engagement Fellow About: As doctoral students in the humanities, how do we communicate the importance of our work outside of our disciplines without it […]

Event Photos: This workshop is devoted to developing a fellowship and grant strategy that will assist you in making your research proposals competitive to a wide range of selection committees. We'll discuss how the jargon of field-specific descriptions can affect both the clarity and persuasiveness of funding proposals, and focus instead on teasing out the […]

This co-led event provides students with first-hand experience working in DH, resources to continue building upon this project, and a larger discussion regarding the possibilities for individual and collaborative digital research. Rachel Deblinger will open with a 45 minute hands-on workshop, introducing the process of building a dataset and visualizing data as an analytical method. […]

"Pedagogy Beyond the College Classroom: Careers in Curriculum Development & Instructional Design" is the first event for the 2017-2018 PhD+ series. Three panelists who completed their PhDs in the humanities at UC Santa Cruz will will discuss their careers in curriculum development and instructional design and offer insights into transferring skillsets and content knowledge into […]

PhD+ Workshop Series Please join us for the second year of PhD+ Workshops, hosted by the Institute for Humanities Research. We will meet monthly, over lunch, to discuss: possible career paths for PhDs, internship possibilities, grants/fellowships, work/life balance, elements of style, online identity issues, and much, much more. This year-end workshop is devoted to developing your […]

Last year, the NEH awarded UCSC a Next Generation Humanities PhD Planning Grant to help support the campus in instituting wide-ranging changes in its humanities doctoral programs. As such a process process will ultimately affect everyone in the Humanities division, the grant participants would like to invite Humanities affiliates to a town-hall style forum for a short […]

Open Access, Data Management and Library Resources What does Open Access mean for you? How can you organize and manage your research materials to best support your writing? And, what kinds of resources are available to graduate students for accessing data and information?This PhD+ panel features librarians who will discuss a range of issues, including […]