PhD student Nicolas Hoffmann talks about podcasting with students in Intro to Digital History
The History Department won a prestigious 2018-2020 Career Diversity Implementation Grant from the American Historical Association (AHA) . Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and administered by the AHA, this grant will support GSU’s history department, along with nineteen other departments, in their efforts to integrate broad-based professional development into their department’s culture and doctoral curriculum. The recipients, selected from 36 departments who participated in the AHA’s year-long Career Diversity Faculty Institutes, represents institutions of varying sizes, locations, and institutional cultures.
Our department will receive funding to support two years of programming as well as a Career Diversity Fellow, i.e. a Ph.D. candidate from the department who will collaborate with a faculty team to better prepare history Ph.D.’s for careers inside and beyond the academy. The faculty team and Fellow will work together to rethink the structure and purpose of their doctoral programs by developing workshops, lectures, and networking events, creating graduate level internships, and instituting curricular changes designed to prepare students to teach in diverse environments, produce important scholarship, and succeed in multiple career paths.
Doctoral students Megan Piorko and Leah Cannon Burnham will serve as the department’s first Career Diversity Fellows in the 2018-9 and 2019-20 academic years, respectively.