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The African American Public Humanities Initiative provides resources and support to humanities and social science PhD students at the University of Delaware who are interested in exploring diverse career trajectories, supporting both non-academic and academic career pathways. The African American Public Humanites Iniative helps graduate students prepare for the reality of the 21st century job market.
Graduate School Success
- How Graduate School is Different from College
- An Open Letter to New Grad Students
- Duke University: Grad Student Professional Development Blog
- Tulane University: How to Survive Grad School
- How to Be a Good Graduate Student
- Making it Through Grad School: The Vitae Primer
Qualifying Exams
- 10 Tips for Mastering your Qualifying Exam
- APA: Preparing for Your Comprehensive Exams
- AHA: Preparing for Comprehensive Exams
- Surviving Quals
Writing Your Dissertation
Dissertation Proposals
- Demystifying the Dissertation Proposal
- UT Austin Sample Dissertation Proposals
- UW Milwaukee Dissertation Proposals
Choosing a Topic and Funding Your Research
Public Scholarship
- Grad Student Advice: How to Network and Add Value to Yourself and Others
- How Do I Create a Professional Network?
- AAAS: How to Build Your Network Resources
- #NTWRKDPHD: Professional Resources for PhDs to Network Outside the Academy
- AHA Career Contacts
- Make Your Contacts Count
- Networking for People Who Hate Networking
- Networking for Nerds
- Give and Take: Why Helping Others Drives Our Success
- How to Be a Better Networker
- Academia.edu
- Research Gate
AAPHI Scholars are awarded $2,000 each academic year to supplement their course content with specialized off-campus training opportunities, such as seminars, workshops, conferences, and site visits. Examples of possible off-site training include, but are not limited to:
- Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI)
- The Alliance for Digital Humanities’ Digital Humanities Conference
- National Endowment for the Humanities’ Office of Digital Humanities Workshops
- HASTAC.org
- StoryCenter workshops
- Oral History Summer School
- Sotheby’s Institute of Art Summer of Study in London or New York
- Modern Language Association Annual Conference
- American Historical Association Annual Meeting
- College Art Association Annual Meeting
- Mapping Black Humanities
