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  • 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.
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