I write to support and extend E.L Meszaros GS’ recent column “Increase Training in Public Scholarship.” As Meszaros notes, PhD students can take graduate level courses in Public Humanities and benefit ...

When he was president of the Modern Language Association, Michael Bérubé described the myriad challenges facing doctoral education as “a seamless garment of crisis.” That was 2013. I’m reluctant to ...

Sritama Chatterjee is a second-year Ph.D. student at the Department of English, University of Pittsburgh. You can find her on Twitter @SritamaBarna. When I came to the U.S.A. last year for my Ph.D., ...

A new report from the Humanities Indicators Project finds that master’s degrees in humanities fields peaked in 2012 and Ph.D.s three years later. There are no signs of a bounce back. American Academy ...

Arts and humanities give meaning. In January 2024, the CHA hosted a Graduate Salon where graduate students, faculty, and administrators gathered to discuss the pressing challenges faced by graduate ...