The Scholarly Communication Institute, the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes (CHCI), and centerNet recently convened a meeting to discuss humanities graduate education reform. The meeting took place at the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) in College Park, Maryland on October 22nd-23rd, 2012. A meeting summary is now available, as well as a full report.

Post-Meeting Resources

• Meeting summary (PDF)
• Full report of the meeting (PDF)
• List of meeting participants (PDF)
• Meeting agenda (PDF)
• “Outside the Pipeline: From Anecdote to Data” — Katina Rogers’ presentation on perceptions of career preparation in humanities graduate programs (also available as a PDF)
• 2008 Report by Diane M. Zorich, “A Survey of Digital Humanities Centers in the United States” (Published by the Council on Library and Information Resources)
• Thinking Through Bureaucracy: David Marshall’s work on the relationship among universities, disciplines, and departments (“Twenty-first century students, a twentieth-century curriculum, and a nineteenth-century bureaucracy”)
• Amanda Visconti’s DH dissertation project
• Duke’s PhD Lab in Digital Knowledge
• Scholars’ Lab’s Praxis Program and Graduate Fellowships
• “Praxis, Through Prisms,” originally published as “A Digital Boot Camp for Grad Students in the Humanities” in the Chronicle (paywalled).
• Cultural Heritage Informatics fieldschool, MSU
• National Council for Public History’s definition of public history and working group on tenure and promotion
• MLA’s recently-revised guidelines for tenure and promotion for digital work
• #Alt-Academy: an open-access collection of essays on alternative academic (“#altac“) careers for humanities scholars
• See background information on existing programs providing alternative methodological training (Google doc)
• Read a recent column in The Chronicle of Higher Education about our study of career preparation and humanities graduate programs
• See the Chronicle‘s coverage of a panel on graduate education reform at the recent MLA Convention