Humanities Without Walls Workshop

HUMANITIES WITHOUT WALLS PRE-DOCTORAL CAREER DIVERSITY SUMMER WORKSHOP

Tools and space to imagine one’s professional future

In summer 2022, the Institute for the Humanities joined forces with the Humanities Without Walls (HWW) consortium to host the annual Humanities Without Walls Pre-doctoral Career Diversity Summer Workshop. The workshop is an intensive two-week interactive experience for PhD students in the humanities designed to help participants explore diverse future careers beyond and including the tenure track. Through a series of workshops, participants learn how to leverage their skills and training towards careers in the public humanities, the private sector, the nonprofit world, arts administration, public media and many other fields.

Established in 2014 with the generous support of the Mellon Foundation, HWW is a large-scale experiment in collaboration as a dynamic scholarly practice, based at the Humanities Research Institute at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

The Career Diversity Workshop is one of HWW’s major initiatives. This year, 25 students from around the country attended and were in residence in Ann Arbor. With over 50 presenters, the workshop included sessions on “Career Pathways in the Federal Government,” “Humanists in Tech,” “Freelance and Consulting Careers,” and many more, as well as tools, values exercises, and space for individuals to imagine their professional futures.