PhD+ Workshop - THI Public Fellowship Information Session
2025-03-11 15:00 - 16:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Curious about becoming a THI Graduate Public Fellow? Not sure how to find the right partner organization? If you’re thinking about applying your expertise in the public sphere or exploring career opportunities beyond academia, then you may be interested in THI’s Public Fellowship program.
Public fellowships provide opportunities for doctoral students in the Humanities to contribute to research, programming, communications, and fundraising at non-profit organizations, cultural institutions, or companies and expand their skills in a non-academic setting while engaged in graduate study.

Please join us for an information session about the 2025 THI Graduate Public Fellows program to learn about Summer 2025 opportunities.
All THI Public Fellow applicants are required to attend an Info Session. Please contact Saskia Nauenberg Dunkell, Research Programs and Communications Director, at saskia@ucsc.edu before the workshop if you are unable to attend due to a work or class scheduling conflict. Final applications are due on April 4th, 2025.

About the PhD+ Workshop Series
Join us for the ninth year of PhD+ Workshops, hosted by The Humanities Institute. We meet monthly to discuss possible career paths for PhDs, internship possibilities, grants/fellowships, work/life balance, elements of style, online identity issues, and much, much more.
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PhD+ Workshop - Alt-Ac in the Archives: Archives and Rare Books Career Pathways
2025-03-13 15:00 - 16:00 | Virtual Event
Ever thought about pursuing a career in archives and libraries? Wondered about what other paths you can pursue with your degree – PhD or otherwise? Come to this panel discussion with four professional librarians and archivists, all from the UC Santa Cruz Special Collections & Archives in McHenry Library. We’ll have a conversation on the diverse and diverging paths we took to get to our current positions in the library, share some advice, and answer questions you have about pursuing these kinds of careers.
It’s also a great chance to meet your local librarians who can assist you in your research and connect you to all kinds of resources at UC Santa Cruz and beyond!
This event is presented by Special Collections and Archives at the University Library and co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute. See the event page here.
Everyone is welcome to attend this session. The Zoom webinar will not be recorded.
Details:
March 13th, 3-4pm PST
Registration for this webinar is required. Register here via Zoom.

Panelist bios:
Alix Norton is the Archivist for the Center for Archival Research and Training (CART) in Special Collections & Archives at the University of California, Santa Cruz. In her primary role, she trains and mentors graduate students in archival processing and exhibition curation. Alix has worked in Special Collections & Archives at four universities, including at the University of California, Irvine, and previously worked in a neuroscience lab at the University of Washington. She earned a BS in Psychology from the University of Washington before obtaining her MSI from the University of Michigan School of information.
Sam Regal is the Instruction and Exhibitions Librarian in Special Collections and Archives at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where she oversees experiential learning programs, exhibitions, programming, public services, and bibliographic collection development. She holds an MLIS with a specialization in rare books and visual culture from UCLA, an MFA in poetry from Hunter College, and a BA in English and American literature from NYU; she also completed coursework toward a PhD in English with a creative writing concentration at the University of Georgia. She is editor of the American Printing History Association (APHA)’s Printing History journal, and her writing has most recently appeared in Parenthesis, RBM, and East of Borneo. She previously served as a librarian at the California Institute of the Arts and as project manager of California Rare Book School.
Rebecca Hernandez earned a PhD in American Studies, specializing in American Indian art and material culture. Her academic work examines inherent complexities in the public representation of culture(s) – particularly how describing and defining Native American objects affects the understanding of Amerindian identity. She is currently the Community Archivist at the UC Santa Cruz University Library, where her role involves assisting with preserving and documenting the history and cultural heritage of Santa Cruz County. Through partnerships with community members, these materials can (if desired) be made accessible to the public, helping to educate and inspire future generations about the rich history of Santa Cruz County.
Kate Dundon is the Supervisory Archivist for Special Collections & Archives at University of California Santa Cruz where she oversees archival processing, accessioning, collection management, and born-digital stewardship programs. Prior to this, she held positions at Occidental College Library, New York University Law Library, and the New York Public Library. She earned an MA in Archives and Public History from New York University and an MLIS from Long Island University.

PhD+ Workshop - Academic Book Publishing with the University of Minnesota Press
2025-05-09 11:00 - 13:00 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Join Jason Weidemann, an Editorial Director at the University of Minnesota Press, for a “publishing bootcamp” workshop, geared toward graduate students, post docs, and early career scholars working on their first books. Together we’ll discuss information on the editorial process – how to talk to editors, revising the dissertation, and proposals.
Time will be left for sharing current works and what presses attendees might look into. Jason’s itinerary allows for additional one-on-one consultations to practice pitching works, etc. To schedule a time, contact: colleen@ucsc.edu.

Jason Weidemann is an Editorial Director at the University of Minnesota Press. Jason Weidemann seeks manuscripts that make field-defining interventions in their core disciplines, contribute to interdisciplinary conversations, and communicate to readers beyond the academy, including activists, policymakers, community members, and general readers. His broad interests in Native and indigenous studies includes literary studies, the social sciences, legal studies, and education. He also acquires works in cultural and human geography, science and technology studies, anthropology, and sociology. Special interests include environmental politics, multispecies ethnography, urban studies, global flows of labor and capital, and Asian studies. Of specific interest are manuscripts that examine the social and racial dimensions of medicine and science. Proposals for translations from Japanese are welcomed, specifically science fiction and critical theory. He is also interested in manuscripts on the social aspects of video games and digital communication. Subject areas: anthropology, Asian studies, media studies, geography, Native and Indigenous studies, sociology, science and technology
For more information: https://scijust.ucsc.edu/2025/04/15/may09-uminnpress/
Co-hosted by the UCSC Science & Justice Research Center, The Humanities Institute, and the Division of Graduate Studies.

PhD+ Workshop - Archives 101 for Graduate Students
2025-10-16 13:00 - 14:00 | McHenry Library (3rd Floor), Special Collections
Feeling the archival impulse? Come get some hands-on experiences with McHenry Library’s Special Collections, chat about archives with your fellow grad students, and get your questions answered about archival research at UCSC and beyond.

Curious undergrads are welcome, too! Space is limited.

This event is presented by the Center for Archival Research & Training (CART) in Special Collections & Archives and co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute.
About the PhD+ Workshop Series
Join us for the 10th year of PhD+ Workshops at The Humanities Institute. This series covers a range of topics including possible career paths for humanities PhDs, securing grants and fellowships, work/life balance, elements of style, online identity issues, and much, much more.

PhD+ Workshop - Crafting the Research-Based Essay with Ariel Gore
2025-11-07 10:00 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Join award-winning author and editor Ariel Gore for a conversation and mini-workshop on translating your research for non-academic genres including personal essays, fiction, memoir/autofiction, and journalism. What does your reader need to know? How do you find a balance between your own voice and the words of others? What do you do about things like citation? A master of deeply-researched personal narrative, Gore will share decades of experience, take questions, and offer some tools to get started.
This event is open to graduate students as well as faculty.

Space is limited and first-come, first-serve, so register now!
Participants will receive a short excerpt of Ariel Gore’s new book, Rehearsals for Dying (The Feminist Press) via email upon registration but may want to consider reading the whole book or attending Gore’s Living Writers reading on 11/6.
Ariel Gore is a LAMBDA Award-winning editor and author of 13 books of hybrid feminist fiction and nonfiction, including the shameless novel/memoir We Were Witches, the how-to guide Hexing the Patriarchy, and the memoirs Atlas of the Human Heart, The End of Eve, and Rehearsals for Dying. She founded the American Press Award-winning zine Hip Mama. She also makes coloring books and tarot cards, and teaches writing online at Ariel Gore’s School for Wayward Writers at the Literary Kitchen. She often lives in Oakland, Santa Fe, and Brooklyn.

Sponsored by the UCOP-sponsored MRPI in Disability Justice and Abolition Medicine and The Humanities Institute PhD+ series.

PhD+ Workshop - Grants and Fellowships
2026-01-14 16:00 - 17:30 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Grants and Fellowships for Humanities Scholars
Learn how to make your fellowship and grant proposals competitive to a wide range of selection committees. We’ll discuss what does and does not need to be in a research proposal, the proper tone and form, and ways to tease out the larger stakes of individual research projects and avoid the jargon of field-specific descriptions. This session will help you craft a research proposal that appeals to a broad academic audience. It will also be an opportunity for graduate students to learn about The Humanities Institute’s funding resources as well as strategies for acquiring extramural support.
The workshop will be led by Pranav Anand (Faculty Director at The Humanities Institute and Professor of Linguistics) and Saskia Nauenberg Dunkell (Research Programs and Communications Director at The Humanities Institute).

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About the PhD+ Workshop Series
