PhD+ Workshop - Crafting the Research-Based Essay with Ariel Gore
2025-11-07 10:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | 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
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
