Penn State (University Park, PA 16802-1503)
Eric Hayot (Project Director: February 2016 to February 2020)
ZA-250725-16
Next Generation Humanities PhD (Planning)
Challenge Programs
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[White paper]
Totals (matching):
$25,000 (approved)
$25,000 (offered)
$25,000 (awarded)
Grant period:
9/1/2016 – 8/31/2018
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Holistic Rethinkings of the Humanities PhD: Seminars, Dissertation, Internationalization, Fellowships
Penn State’s plans to institute
wide-ranging changes in its humanities doctoral programs.
Penn State
University's College of the Liberal Arts proposes to rethink the humanities PhD
along four major lines: 1) moving beyond the graduate seminar; 2) internationalizing
training and placement; 3) alternatives to the dissertation; and 4) piloting
extra-academic training in a new fellowship program. A Core Committee that includes
the university Provost, the College Dean, a member of the university Board of
Trustees, as well as faculty, administrators, and graduate students will
oversee four working groups. The project goal is to develop a new fellowship
program that would, by including the advances of all four groups, also pilot a
significant new structure for the humanities PhD.
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