Career Diversity Workshop
Explore Diverse Future Careers
Launched in 2015, HWW’s Career Diversity Summer workshop was a 2-week, immersive career diversity experience for 20 PhD students in the humanities. The workshop provided tools, values exercises, and space for individuals to imagine their professional futures.
Overview and Goals
Redistribution and Reciprocity
The very concept of “humanities without walls” means acknowledging how and why impediments to social and racial justice structure all aspects of higher education, including career diversity practices. At HWW we work to recognize and to challenge assumptions about what “professionalism” looks like and how histories of implicit bias shape work cultures within and outside academia.
HWW’s commitment to the values of reciprocity and redistribution means that partner institutions have opportunities to tailor career diversity to their local institutional culture and to design experiences for PhD students in the humanities and arts that prioritize partnership, collaboration, and student-centered pathways both into and out of higher education.
Workshop Environment
Career Values Discernment
We have learned that centering the needs of each fellow results in empowered PhD professionals ready to tackle the world which awaits them post-degree. Our sessions intentionally layered foundations for the fellows as they do the real-time work of discerning personal career values, building community within the fellowship cohort, and researching potential career paths.
Cohort Style Model
The HWW Career Diversity Summer Workshop utilized a cohort-based approach to assisting humanities PhD students with the development of their careers. Our principles emphasized student agency while giving attendees space to reflect on their values.
Session Format
Through a series of workshop sessions, talks, informational interviews, and site visits, participants learned how to imagine possible futures and leverage their skills and humanities training towards careers in the private sector, the nonprofit world, arts administration, government, public media, and many other fields.
See past Career Diversity Workshop participants