{"href":"https://api.simplecast.com/oembed?url=https%3A%2F%2Fnew-books-in-higher-education.simplecast.com%2Fepisodes%2Fhope-for-the-humanities-phd-2_BA6ldf","width":444,"version":"1.0","type":"rich","title":"Hope for the Humanities PhD","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/8e40fd63-083d-4b15-bc17-db5f44fce69c/993692a7-c50d-479f-902d-16eacde57685/2d5a12325f02b41866081a58d8d7827a.png","thumbnail_height":300,"provider_url":"https://simplecast.com","provider_name":"Simplecast","html":"","height":200,"description":"Welcome to The Academic Life! In this episode you’ll hear about:\n\nWhy a humanities degree actually opens many career paths.\n\nThe importance of curiosity.\n\nThe contingency crisis in higher ed.\n\nHow we can re-evaluate “academic success.”\n\nAdvice for students and faculty.\n\n\nOur guest is: Dr. Katina Rogers, the author of Putting the Humanities PhD to Work: Thriving in and beyond the Classroom (Duke University Press, 2020). In 2021, she founded Inkcap Consulting to help universities build more supportive and sustainable graduate programs. Her career has included work at The Graduate Center, CUNY, the Modern Language Association, the Scholarly Communication Institute, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. She has two young kids and a deep frustration with higher education, that is inextricably bound up with hope. She holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Colorado at Boulder.\nOur host is: Dr. Christina Gessler, who has effectively used her humanities degrees for interesting jobs both inside and outside the academy. She is the co-producer of the Academic Life.\nListeners to this episode may also be interested in:\n\n\nThe Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins, by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing\n\n\nImagine PhD, created by the Graduate Career Consortium: \n\nNext Generation Dissertations\n\n\nInkcap and its resources\n\n\nGet Sorted: How to Make the Most of Your Student Experience, by Jeff Gill and Will Medd\n\n\nWhere Research Begins: Choosing A Research Project that Matters to You, by Thomas Mullaney and Christopher Rea\n\n\nGoing Alt-Ac: A Guide to Alternative Academic Careers, by Kathryn Linder, Keven Kelly, and Thomas Tobin\n\n\nThe Employability Journal, by Barbara Bassot\n\n\nCandid Advice for New Faculty Members, by Marybeth Gasman\n\n\nYou are smart and capable, but you aren’t an island, and neither are we. We reach across our mentor network to bring you podcasts on everything from how to finish that project to how to take care of your beautiful mind. Here on the Academic Life channel, we embrace a broad definition of what it means to be an academic and to lead an academic life. We view education as a transformative human endeavor and are inspired by today’s knowledge-producers working inside and outside the academy. Wish we’d bring on an expert about something? DMs us on Twitter: @AcademicLifeNBN."}