Humanists explore how writing and research empower advocacy, align with values, build communities, and drive meaningful change in scholarship and practice.

Ma'na is not the same as “meaning” at all; it is its own story. 

Penelope’s wonder encapsulates both her amazement and an act of speculation, of reckoning her position among others in her social world.

In fall 2020, I set out to document San Francisco’s Mission Street. I saw storefronts doubling as murals, old and new catastrophes, enduring injustices.

The journey to Brasília across the Central Plateau of Brazil is one of separation. It confronts the traveler with the separation of modernist BrasíIia from the familiar Brazil.

To encounter the history of avant-garde poetry is to encounter a racist tradition.

The current higher education landscape presents as many challenges as it does opportunities, which can make it daunting to decide where to direct reform efforts. In this chapter and the one that follows, I use the context and arguments of previous chapters to begin building an action plan. First, I turn to faculty members, advisors, and deans of graduate study to offer suggestions both for programmatic change and for better supporting individual students, grounding my advice in the context and arguments of previous chapters.

There’s so much wisdom available these days on how to approach career diversity for PhDs in the humanities, arts and related fields. And there are a lot of models and best practices have emerged over the last ten years, offering both faculty and students a range of options and approaches to the question of professional pathways and how to shape them so that they are multidirectional between the academy and “the beyond.”