Reflecting on the May 2012 National Academy of Science’s Sackler Colloquium, entitled “The Science of Science Communication,” Assistant Professor of Writing Michael Svoboda argues in a post for the Yale Forum on Climate Change and the Media that the humanities have an important role to play in communicating climate science. This role, which Svoboda emphasizes […]
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Spec Work and the Humanities
By Dana Solomon As part of my own research on the use of information visualization in the humanities, I have become interested in the past and present overlap of graphic design practice and literary studies. In considering these and other overlaps between the practice of reading and interpreting texts and the labor involved in designing […]
Infographics Friday: Humanities Career Outcomes
Today’s infographic is from the research done by L. Maren Wood, reported in The Chronicle and in 4Humanities, on the career outcomes of Ph.D.’s in history. Wood researched the careers of history Ph.D.’s who graduated from 1990 to 2010 (taking every other year) from Duke University, Ohio State University, the University of North Carolina at […]
What Can You Do with a Ph.D. in the Humanities?
In a recent piece in The Chronicle of Higher Education, L. Maren Wood features the results of her research regarding what nonacademic career paths recent graduates with Ph.D.’s in history are taking. Curious about what fields graduates like her who didn’t take the tenure track are working in, Wood researched the careers of history Ph.D.’s […]
Crisis in the arts as a keyword? Or as the key to production?
By Eva Kekou, 4Humanities International Correspondent It seems that crisis is the keyword for lots of post from me, writing from Athens. As with most things in life it seems there is more than one side to the story, and crisis appears to be the key for people to open up, act collaboratively and express […]
Showing arts, humanities … and symposiums matter! Report on the 4Hum@UCL Symposium
By Eva Kekou, 4Humanities International Correspondent I had the big honor and pleasure of attending the 4Humanities Symposium, “Showing the Arts and Humanities Matter,” which took place September 18th at UCL. It is so incredibly nice to get to know a community and the people you have worked for and been in touch with virtually […]
Infographics Friday: Bachelor of Arts Degrees, 1988-2008
This week’s infographic is from a special report Jeffrey Brainard wrote for The Chronicle of Higher Education over two years ago detailing the numbers of bachelor’s degrees awarded in the humanities from 1988 – 2008. Compiled using data collected by the U.S. Department of Education, Brainard writes that the chart shows that “the number of […]