Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Katina Rogers (Co-Director, The Futures Initiative, The Graduate Center, City University of New York)

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Join Dr. Katina Rogers, author of Putting the Humanities PhD to Work: Thriving In and Beyond the Classroom (Duke University Press, 2020) for a candid conversation on the present and future of humanities graduate training as a valuable public good. Timely topics to be addressed include the role of humanities inquiry in the COVID pandemic, engaged modes of scholarly communication, diversity and inclusivity in higher education, academic labor practices, as well as an opportunity for Q&A for practical career advice.

Dr. Katina Rogers is co-director of the Futures Initiative and the CUNY Humanities Alliance at the Graduate Center, City University of New York, and director of programs and administration for HASTAC, the online scholarly network. She researches and writes about higher education reform, including scholarly communication practices, professionalization and career development, public scholarship, and advocacy for fair labor policies. Rogers is the author of Putting the Humanities PhD to Work: Thriving in and beyond the Classroom (Duke University Press, 2020). She holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of Colorado at Boulder.

This talk is free and open to an audience beyond UF graduate students.

The 2021 Graduate Public Humanities Institute has been generously cosponsored by the Hyatt and Cici Brown Professor of Florida Archaeology (Kenneth E. Sassaman), the Rothman Family Chair in the Humanities (Jack Davis), the UF Chief Diversity Officer, the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and the Graduate School.

For questions about the Graduate Public Humanities Institute, please contact Dr. Kristen Galvin, Assistant Director for Graduate Engagement at the Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere, kgalvin@ufl.edu.