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Graduate Opportunities

Find opportunities and resources to support graduate scholarship

Featured funding

Featured funding
Upcoming events

Upcoming events
Beyond CHPS

Beyond CHPS
Current opportunities

Current opportunities
Past programs & events

Past programs & events
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Funding, mentorship, and professional development for graduate students in the humanities.

We support graduate students at different stages of their academic and professional development through programs that strengthen research, foster interdisciplinary connection, and expand opportunities for public engagement. Whether students are advancing a dissertation project, building new skills, or exploring how their work can reach broader audiences, CHPS helps create pathways for sustained growth and meaningful impact.

Through fellowships, workshops, writing support, and collaborative programming, CHPS helps students deepen their scholarship, build connections, and explore futures for humanities research within and beyond the academy.

FEATURED FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES

DOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPSOur Tedder and Rothman Doctoral Fellowships provide $3,000 in support for UF doctoral candidates conducting humanities dissertation research. Designed to help cover research-related expenses, these fellowships give students resources to advance significant projects and move their work forward. LIBRARY ENHANCEMENT GRANTSLibrary Enhancement Grants offer up to $4,000 for print, digital, and audiovisual resources that enhance UF’s humanities collections. Designed for faculty and graduate students, these grants support acquisitions that strengthen research and teaching while serving broad constituencies across the university.
Programs in the Public Humanities
Speaker/Workshop Series Grant
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UPCOMING EVENTS
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PUBLIC HUMANITIES INTERNSHIPS

Our Public Humanities Internships give graduate students the opportunity to apply their research, writing, and critical thinking skills in professional, community-facing settings. Through paid placements with partner organizations, students gain hands-on experience while exploring how humanities training can contribute beyond the university.

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HUMANITIES SUMMER INSTITUTE

The Humanities Summer Institute creates space for graduate students to develop their work in community with peers and faculty from across the humanities. Through workshops, discussion, and project sharing, the institute supports interdisciplinary exchange while helping graduate and postdoctoral students deepen their research and writing.

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GRANT-WRITING WORKSHOPS

Our Grant-Writing Workshops help graduate students build practical skills for identifying funding opportunities and developing strong proposals. These sessions offer guidance, strategies, and support for turning research ideas into competitive applications.

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UNDERGRADUATE MENTORSHIP

Through the Alexander Grass Scholars Program, graduate students have the opportunity to mentor undergraduates as they develop research projects and explore humanities methods. This mentorship experience helps graduate students strengthen their teaching and leadership skills while contributing to a collaborative research community.

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Resources and opportunities beyond the center

We support graduate students not only through our own programs, but also by connecting them with resources beyond UF. This section includes external funding opportunities and additional resources to help you build on your work and explore pathways within and beyond the academy.

Resources at UF
Explore a range of UF-based resources for graduate students, including funding opportunities, professional development programs, career support, research centers, and interdisciplinary communities. These offices and centers can help you build skills, access funding, expand your network, and pursue academic and professional opportunities at UF and beyond.
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Life Beyond the PhD
Find curated job boards featuring careers, internships, and other opportunities in the humanities. You can browse the full list or filter by your interests, and we also encourage you to check professional organizations in your field for more targeted job and funding resources.
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On Your Own
Discover a collection of career exploration platforms, articles, podcasts, books, and other resources designed to help humanities graduate students navigate pathways within and beyond the academy. Whether you are considering academic, public-facing, or alternative careers, these materials can help you reflect on your skills, explore possibilities, and prepare for a range of futures.
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Graduate Engagement Team

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Sara Agnelli

Associate Director

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Juliana Rubinatto Serrano

Graduate Program Coordinator

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Past Programs and Events

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Lightning Humanities: CHPS Fellows Showcase Research Across Time, Place and Culture

The 2026 Tedder and Rothman Doctoral Fellows Research Showcase brought graduate students together during Synergies Research Day for a lively, interdisciplinary exchange. Through conversational lightning talks organized around themes of power, expression, legacy, culture, belonging and contact, fellows shared research that reflected the depth, creativity and public relevance of humanities scholarship at UF.

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From Graduate Study to Diverse Careers in the Humanities

From museum work to mission-driven communications and public service, the Career Diversity Panel showcased the many directions humanities Ph.D.s can take. Panelists offered candid advice and reassurance that leaving academia does not mean leaving scholarship behind.

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National Humanities Center Doctoral Institutes and Residencies

Beginning in 2019, The Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere — with the support of the Director Barbara Mennel’s Waldo W. Neikirk Professorship — supports Ph.D. students in UF’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences for intensive one-week themed residencies and institutes at the National Humanities Center that focus on practical teaching, research, and professionalization skills.

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Graduate Humanities Summer Institute

The Center launched its first in-person Graduate Humanities Summer Institute for Ph.D. and Master’s students in the humanities and humanistic social sciences at the University of Florida.

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Under Review: Rethinking Humanities Graduate Education

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Envision Humanities: A Graduate Student Toolkit for the 21st Century

Envision Humanities affords graduate students opportunities to expand their skill sets, engage broader publics, and discover a variety of career pathways.

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The National Humanities Center Virtual Residencies

The National Humanities Center Virtual Residencies were awarded to Ph.D. students in UF’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.

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Faith, Law, and Resistance: Caribbean Legacies in Environment and Empire: UF Synergies Event Recap

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