The history department hosts a series of professional development workshops designed to help Yale students professionalize themselves by offering deep dives into subjects not normally covered in classes and advising. The series is redesigned each year in coordination between the Director of Graduate Studies and the Graduate Student Advisory Committee. Sessions cover practical, personal, and theoretical issues crucial to the lives and careers of the History graduate community that are not fundamentally scholarly but nonetheless crucial to success and achievement. All sessions last one hour and are hosted in the 2021-22 Academic year as hybrid events. Sessions will be recorded and linked on this page.
Sessions, dates and times are listed here:
- Nov. 18 @ 4:00 pm: Publishing with a trade press – how to reach agents, publishers, craft book production - Guest speakers: Paul Freedman and Valerie Hansen [video + transcript] requires Yale credentials
- Nov. 30 @ 5:15 pm, HQ 276: The process of article writing and submission - Guest speakers: Anne Eller and Noel Lenski [video + transcript] requires Yale credentials
- Dec. 6 @ 4:00 pm, HQ 276: On organizing information and finding patterns – using technology to do history - Guest speaker: Fabian Drixler [zoom link]
- Jan. 26 @ 12-1 pm on zoom: International scholars/ international students and the American academic environment - Guest speakers: Rohit De and OISS representative, Sarah Solarski [video + transcript] requires Yale credentials
- Feb. 3 @ 3:30-4:30 zoom only: How to begin conceptualizing the second big project - Guest speakers: Sergei Antonov and Denise Ho [zoom link]
- Feb. 17 @ 4:00-5:00 in HQ 276 or on zoom: Ethics and the practice of history - self-advocacy and academic etiquette - Guest speakers: Marci Shore and Mark Peterson [video + transcript]
- Mar. 10 @ 4:00-5:00 in HQ 229 or on zoom: Job search overview for advanced students with an emphasis on the logistics of relocation and establishing a new life as a faculty member - Guest speakers: Alvita Akiboh and Hussein Fancy [zoom link]
- Apr. 7 @ 4:00-5:00 in HQ 276 or on zoom: Public intellectuals and social change - Guest speakers: Beverly Gage and Timothy Snyder [zoom link]
- Apr. 18 @ 1:30-2:30 (lunch begins at 1:00) in HQ 276 or on zoom: Successful grant and fellowship writing - Guest speakers: David Engerman and Joanne Meyerowitz [zoom link]
- Apr. 27 @ 5:00 – probable outdoor event, location TBA: Anti-racist & anti-white-supremacist pedagogy - Guest speakers: Nataliya Braginsky and the Anti-Racist Teaching and Learning Collective