University of Notre Dame graduate students Caitlin Smith Oyekole, fourth-year , and Sevda Arslan, second-year , have been named 2018 Humanities Without Walls pre-doctoral workshop fellows.
Supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Humanities Without Walls is a consortium of 15 Midwestern institutes that fosters cross-institutional collaboration in humanities-based research, teaching and scholarship.
This summer鈥檚 workshop will take place over a three-week period in Chicago and will focus on the theme of doctoral career diversity, exposing graduate students to career paths outside of the traditional tenure-track trajectory while providing enrichment for traditional academic scholarship.
鈥淚鈥檓 thrilled to see students boost the versatility of their professional skill sets through opportunities such as the HWW workshop,鈥� said , vice president, associate provost and dean of the . 鈥淚t reinforces the idea that the best career outcomes are those that empower students to apply their research toward their passions in concrete, collaborative ways.鈥�
Graduate students who are interested in this or other fellowships can contact the Office of Grants and Fellowships at gradgrants@nd.edu.
Contact: Erin Blasko, assistant director of media relations, 574-631-4127, eblasko@nd.edu