Awards Announced: Curricular Innovation and Alum Engagement

February 18, 2020
 
Humanities Engage is delighted to announce the first group of awardees under various funding streams intended to foster curricular innovation and enhance alum engagement.
 
Graduate Faculty Summer Stipends for Curricular Innovation
Three faculty members will receive summer stipends to design new graduate courses with significant public and/or digital humanities scholarship components:
 
Raja Adal, Assistant Professor of History: “Digital and Critical Approaches to Asian History”
 
Elizabeth Pitts, Assistant Professor of English: “Public Communication of Science and Technology”
 
Annette Vee, Associate Professor of English: “Automated Writing from Amanuenses to AI”
 
The awardees will be posting their syllabi on our website by the fall term and blog about their curricular design experiences.
 
 
Engaging Humanities Ph.D. Alums
The Departments of English and History receive funding to co-sponsor the visit of doctoral alums for a workshop on careers in professional writing/editing and publishing, to be hosted in April 2020.
 
 
Departmental Retreats to Re-Imagine the Doctoral Curriculum
The Department of History of Art and Architecture receives funding to support a departmental retreat to reexamine, rethink, and reimagine the Ph.D. curriculum in light of the changing needs and outcomes of doctoral education.
 
On behalf also of the Steering Committee, warm thanks to all graduate student and faculty applicants for proposing innovative curricular and co-curricular projects,
 
sincerely,
 
Holger Hoock
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Associate Dean for Graduate Studies and Research
Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
J. Carroll Amundson Professor of British History
University of Pittsburgh