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Hope for the Humanities PhD

Welcome to The Academic Life! In this episode you’ll hear about:

Why a humanities degree actually opens many career paths.

The importance of curiosity.

The contingency crisis in higher ed.

How we can re-evaluate “academic success.”

Advice for students and faculty.

Our 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…

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