Internal Resources at UF
Career Exploration Platforms
- ImaginePhD (free)
- VersatilePhD (free for a basic membership)
Helpful Sites with Humanities Careers Job Boards
- The Chronicle of Higher Education
- Inside Higher Ed Careers
- HigherEdJobs
- Higher Education Recruitment Consortium (HERC)
- Higher Ed 360
- H-Net
- EdSurge
- Idealist
- Association of University Presses
- National Endowment for the Humanities
- National Council on Public History
- The Chronicle of Philanthropy
- American Alliance of Museums
- Americans for the Arts
- Council on Foundations
- New York Foundation for the Arts
- Emerging Practitioners in Philanthropy
- Association of Performing Arts Professionals
- Nonprofit Technology (NTEN)
- National Council of Nonprofits
- Philanthropy News Digest
- Peak Grantmaking
- United Philanthropy Forum
- The Nonprofit Times
- Work for Good
- Inside Philanthropy
- Association of Fundraising Professionals
- American Society of Association Executives
- Change Philanthropy
- Management Consultants for the Arts
- Nonprofit Professionals Advisory Group
- Cultural Jobs
- U.S. Government Jobs
Career Support and Services
- UF Office of Graduate Professional Development
- UF Career Connections Center
- The Professor Is In (free online sources, other webinars and services have fees)
- Carpe Careers Blog at InsideHigherEd
- Connected Academics (Modern Language Association)
- AHA Career Diversity Resources(American Historical Association)
- Roostervane
- Jobs on Toast
Books on Humanities Careers, Public Humanities, and Shifts in Higher Education
- Aldama, Frederick Luis. Why the Humanities Matter: A Commonsense Approach. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2008.
- Basalla, Susan, and Maggie Debelius. So What Are You Going to Do with That? Finding Careers Outside Academia. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014.
- Bate, Jonathan, ed. The Public Value of the Humanities. New York: Bloomsbury, 2011.
- Berdahl, Loleen. Work Your Career: Get What You Want from Your Social Sciences or Humanities PhD. Toronto, Canada: University of Toronto Press, 2018.
- Berube, Michael and J. Ruth. The Humanities, Higher Education, and Academic Freedom. UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
- Belfiore, Eleonora, and Anna Upchurch. Humanities in the Twenty-First Century: Beyond Utility and Markets. Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan, 2013.
- Cassuto, Leonard. The New PhD: How to Build a Better Graduate Education. Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021.
- ——— The Graduate School Mess: What Caused It and How We Can Fix Tt. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2015.
- Caterine, Christopher L. Leaving Academia: A Practical Guide. New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2020.
- Childress, Herb. The Adjunct Underclass: How America’s Colleges Betrayed Their Faculty, Their Students, and Their Mission. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press 2019.
- Cornthwaite, Chris. Doctoring: Building a Life With a Ph.D. Independently published, Reedsy: 2020.
- Fruscione, Joseph, and Kelly J. Baker, eds. Succeeding Outside the Academy: Career Paths Beyond the Humanities, Social Sciences, and STEM. Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas, 2018.
- Kelsky, Karen. The Professor Is In: The Essential Guide To Turning Your Ph.D. Into a Job. New York: Three Rivers Press, 2015.
- Kuhn, Virginia and Anke Finger, eds. Shaping the Digital Dissertation: Knowledge Production in the Arts and Humanities. Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2021.
- Linder, Kathryn, Kevin Kelly, and Thomas J. Tobin. Going Alt-Ac: A Guide to Alternative Academic Careers. Sterling, Virginia: Stylus Publishing 2020.
- Quadlin, Natasha and Brian PowellWho Should Pay? Higher Education, Responsibility, and the Public. Russell Sage, 2022.
- Rogers, Katina L. Putting the Humanities PhD to Work: Thriving in and Beyond the Classroom. Durham: Duke University Press, 2020.
- Small, Helen. The Value of the Humanities. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.
- Smith, Sidone. Manifesto for the Humanities: Transforming Doctoral Education in Good Enough Times. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2016.
- Smulyan, Susan. Doing Public Humanities. New York: Routledge, 2021.
- Sommer, Doris. The Work of Art in the World. Civic Agency and Public Humanities. Durham: Duke University Press, 2014.
- Tolley, Kim, ed. Professors in the Gig Economy: Unionizing Adjunct Faculty in America. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018.
Articles on Humanities Careers, Public Humanities, and Shifts in Higher Education
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- Pearson, Robert. Strategies for Articulating the Value of an Internship. Inside Higher Ed, 2022
- Lavery, Grace. Making Grad School Work for Weirdos: Our alt-ac training too often prizes a narrow set of careers. The Chronicle of Higher Education, 2022.
- Winter, Frederick A. Plus C’est La Même Chose. Inside Higher Ed, 2021