What We Offer
VH@Duke Internship Program
Secure a competitive, paid semester-long or summer internship that will give you new perspective on research interests, or enable you to explore a potential career avenue.
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Doctoral Innovation Grants
Collaborate with your department’s leadership to secure special grants to enhance academic training in your areas of focus.
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Customized, One-on-One Advising
Reach out to Dr. Maria LaMonaca Wisdom, Director for Graduate Student Advising, for support in navigating academic and professional trajectories.
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Collaborative Research
Find teams, partners and resources for your scholarly pursuits, including Bass Connections, Story+, writing support and research funding.
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Professional Development
Learn about key resources at Duke and beyond that can help you cultivate versatility and launch your career.
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Insight, Advice & Stories
See the VH@Duke blog for perspectives from the community of versatile humanists at Duke.
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Mentors and Networks
Connect with Duke alumni, current students, faculty, and others to support your academic and professional growth.
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About VH@Duke
Versatile Humanists at Duke (VH@Duke) is supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Duke Graduate School, and the Duke Provost’s Office. Our mission is to prepare Duke graduate students to make a difference in their careers as humanists, whether inside or outside the academy. Our offerings are geared to help future Ph.D.s in the humanities and humanistic social sciences flourish—in higher education, government, business, the non-profit sector, or wherever their talents and inclinations might lead.
We believe that versatility is just as vital for successful careers within academia as beyond it. The many challenges now confronting higher education compel today’s faculty members and administrators to work in teams, span boundaries, navigate diverse work cultures, and cultivate the habits of effective leadership.
Read about VH@Duke in Change: The Magazine of HIgher Learning
Blog
Against Overwhelm: Keeping Sight of the Big Picture
The group coaching format provides powerful tools with which to confront the issue of grad student overwhelm.
Career Diversity is Not Plan B: Thoughts from a PhD Candidate on the Nonfaculty Job Market
Not every humanities PhD candidate aspires to be a tenure-track professor. What’s the way forward for these students?
What Are You Waiting For?
Are there things you’re not letting yourself do or have until you finish the PhD?
The Big Picture Faculty Job Search
The big picture job application is less about writing to rules or processes and more about writing towards a desired outcome.
Enough Advice, Already
This fall marks three years since I first started advising doctoral students at Duke. What have I learned?
Let’s Talk about Money
We don’t talk about salary enough when discussing post-graduate school careers. Here are a few things to consider.
Navigating Professional Uncertainty
How do you deal with the psychological toll of constant waiting and worrying over how “things will turn out”?
Teaching as Public Scholarship
The History Department is revamping its pedagogy training for Ph.D. students around the idea that teaching is translation.
11 Ph.D. Students Named VH@Duke Interns for 2019
The internships provide Duke doctoral students in the humanities and humanistic social sciences exposure to work experiences, organizations, and professions relevant to their scholarly interests.
Why Taking the Plunge “Early” Into the Academic Job Market is Worthwhile
Thoughts on the 2018 VH@Duke Academic Job Search Summer Advising Group.