During the 2019–2020 academic year, members of the Humanities for the Public Good Advisory Board formed Working Groups to learn about changing graduate programs around the country and to lay the groundwork for an applied, experiential, cross-disciplinary humanities PhD. The Working Groups covered the following topics: Career Exploration, Community Engagement, Degree Structure, Dissertation, and Pedagogical Models.
Their full reports offer a detailed account of their process and discoveries. In our report below, we zero in on their recommendations, which are not only invaluable for our work, but also offer insights we hope will be helpful to our colleagues in humanities departments here and elsewhere.
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