Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere

On September 18, from 2-3pm in the Nygren Studio, come listen to Paige Morgan’s presentation entitled: “Balancing Expectations: Creating Useful Library and DH Experience for Humanities Graduate Students.”

Paige C. Morgan is the Digital Scholarship Librarian & Scholarly Publishing Officer at the University of Miami. The University of Miami’s UGrow Fellowship program provides graduate students from humanities departments with experience and skills that support jobs beyond traditional tenure-track professorial roles. The University of Miami Libraries have been sponsoring 1-2 Digital Humanities UGrow Fellows every year under my supervision since 2016; and the two students who have graduated after completing the fellowship have both been successful in landing DH/Library postdocs. We see the UGrow Fellowships as an important opportunity to support graduate students facing an extremely competitive job market; as well as an opportunity to illuminate some of the less visible aspects of librarianship and to experiment with different ways of including DH within the Libraries.

Imagining this is one thing; executing it can be more complex, and can involve carefully managing the expectations of both graduate students and faculty and library administrators. In this talk, Morgan will discuss these complexities, and other choices that have shaped the Libraries’ involvement in the UGrow program, and how this program might continue to develop fellowships in the future.

The presentation will be virtual using Zoom.