On April 4, 2017 members of the “Humanities at Large” Health & Medicine committee Graduate School Associate Dean Andrea Rusnock and English PhD student Kara Watts presented the committee’s proposal for a Health-Humanities Think Lab at the URI Big Ideas in Health Conference. The conference is hosted by the Academic Health Collaborative and provides an occasion […]
The Deans, faculty, and graduate students working on URI’s “Humanities at Large” NEH Next Generation PhD project gathered for an end-of-year collocation to discuss and reflect on the progress made over the past year and think about the future of PhD education at URI. English PhD students Ashton Foley (Coastal Environment Committee), Kara Watts (Core […]
On Friday, April 28, the Cultural Organizations committee, under the leadership of Professor Martha Rojas, welcomed guests from regional cultural organizations for a forum on PhD careers and possibilities for experiential learning for graduate students. We were excited to host Morgan Grefe, Executive Director of the Rhode Island Historical Society, Jack Martin, Executive Director of the […]
In mid-November, Project Director Kathleen Davis and Project Manager Kim Evelyn attended the National Humanities Conference (NHC) in Salt Lake City, Utah. The 2016 NHC brought together the Federation of State Humanities Councils, the National Humanities Alliance, and partners from academic institutions under the theme “Humanities Partnerships—Meeting Local and Global Challenges.” At the conference Davis […]
Blog Post by Ryan Engley, Graduate Student, Department of English for urienglish.com The URI English Department is thrilled to announce that we have been honored with a large grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). The grant, part of NEH’s “Next Generation PhD” initiative, is designed to fund planning for the innovation of […]
by Beth Leonardo, Graduate Student, Department of English The DH/Big Data subcommittee is a diverse group of faculty and graduate students dedicated to the development of digital skills at URI. Representing the departments of Art and Art History, Computer Science, English, and Writing and Rhetoric as well as the University Libraries, this subcommittee is dedicated to […]
Shakespeare Meets Watersheds: A Profile of Graduate Student Molly Hall, Core Committee Member From the URI Coastal Institute. Posted September 22, 2016. Meet the CI Student: Molly Hall is the newest addition to our team; she will be working to expand public engagement with CI initiatives by helping to craft science communication. Molly is currently […]
URI wins federal grant to prepare graduate students in humanities for broader careers Grant is part of National Endowment for Humanities’ “Next Generation PhD’’ From URI Today (today.uri.edu/news). Posted on August 29, 2016 Kathleen Davis, an English professor at URI. Photo courtesy of Kathleen Davis. KINGSTON, R.I., Aug. 29, 2016—You have your doctorate in, say, English […]
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