Jim Grossman’s day-long presentation was a thoughtful and very thorough account of the current state of PhD training in the humanities and an equally well-considered plan to improve career outcomes for humanists, especially those who end up in the vast contingent labor pool on which universities depend. At the heart of his talk were two key ideas. The […]

One of the charming features of the SIF’s development is the haphazard way it has accumulated projects to work on. We were founded with the idea of being a labor force for faculty with ideas that needed implementation. This open-ended mission contributed to a fellowship program that has helped projects coming from disciplines all across […]

This March, historians from around the country will be gathering at Drew University to discuss the state of graduate education in the field. Like many disciplines, particularly (but by no means exclusively) in the humanities, history departments have been burdened for years by aging graduate curricula and cultural expectation that the American Historical Association called […]

Perhaps the greatest strength of the SIF program is its emphasis on collaborative work. Yet it is also one of the great challenges of the program – especially as all of us working on the SIF are fulltime students, many deep in the process of writing dissertations or a thesis, or are honors undergrads talking […]