General Information for Success at the Graduate Level
- A Guide to Graduate Study (and Beyond) - Dr. Stephen Karian's comprehensive site for general information and various resources for graduate students at any stage in their career.
The Job Market
- MLA Career and Job Market Information - Also links to tips for starting the job search and advice for candidates at the MLA convention and beyond.
- Starting Your Academic Career - Tips for those who found success with the contents of the previous link.
- Applying for a Job at a Liberal-Arts College
- The Invisible Adjunct - From the margins of academe: Occasional thoughts on higher education, campus politics, the use and abuse of adjunct faculty, the academic "job market," and various other absurdities. By an invisible adjunct assistant professor of history.
- College and the Fall
- The 5 Virtues of Successful Graduate Students
Applying for Graduate Programs:
- So You Want to Go to Grad School?
See The Invisible Adjunct's discussion of this article. - If You Must Go to Graduate School
See The Invisible Adjunct's discussion of this article.
More articles from the same author. (Scroll down to "Academic Journalism and Activist Writings") - Choosing a Top PhD Program and How to Put Together a Strong Graduate School Application
- Gerald Graff and Andrew Hoberek on Applications and Graduate Education (Can be accessed from MU servers only)
- The Career Center - Exploring and Applying to Graduate School (UC-Berkeley)
Academic Conferences:
- Attending Conferences and Presenting Papers (Brown University)
Re-envisioning the PhD - "This new site, sponsored by the Pew Charitable Trusts, is home to the Re-envisioning the PhD project, which is tasked with investigating change in doctoral education, in particular, helping to expand the career choices available to PhD students. In the Re-envisioning Project Resources section, visitors will find conference materials, recommendations from studies, summaries of interviews, a bibliography, career resources, and more. The Promising Practices section contains information on the different ways in which groups (universities, associations, organizations, and more) are responding to concerns about doctoral education. The other two main sections of the site, National/ International Resources and News and Updates contain links to even more resources, studies, current news, related projects,and more." (SCOUT Report)
External Grants and Fellowships
Funding Information Center - Memorial Library, MU
Online Edition of Foundations in Wisconsin, 21st Ed. - Directory of 1151 active WI foundations that donated more than $389 Million in grants. Access by subscription only. Also available in print at MU Memorial Library Funding Information Center.
GrantSelect
This service can only be accessed from the campus network. From the main page, click on "Paid Subscribers Enter Here." Paid for by Marquette and the Office of Research Support, GrantSelect will help you find financial support for research, conferences, and other academic activities.
FastWeb
FastWeb is a free service that will search for scholarships, grants, and fellowships and notify you about them by email.
Drew University Links to National/International Grants and Scholarships
Links to over 100 scholarships and grants for undergraduate, graduate, post-graduate and theology students. Indexed by category, required education level, and due date.
"And wise men tell us, O Callicles, that heaven and earth and gods and men are held together by communion and friendship, by orderliness, temperance, and justice; and that is the reason, my friend, why they call the whole of this world by the name of order." Gorgias 507e-508a
General
- Fulbright Grants for Graduate Study Abroad
- Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Grants
- Charlotte W. Newcombe Fellowships (One-year fellowships for dissertation writing; study of ethical or religious values in humanities/social sciences.)
- Mellon Fellowships
- Ford Foundation Grants and Fellowships
- Social Science Research Council
Libraries, Museums and Institutes
- Newberry Library Fellowships
- Folger Institute/Shakespeare Library
- Huntington Library
- Rome Prize Fellowships (American Academy in Rome)
- Harry S. Truman Library Institute Dissertation Year Fellowships (Fellowships to support write-up of dissertations on the Truman era.)
- Georgia O’Keefe Museum Research Center Stipend Program (For research in American Modernism, 1890-present.
- John Carter Brown Library Research Fellowships (Brown University)
Area/Field-Specific Studies
- George J. Mitchell Scholarships (For Graduate study or research in Ireland and Northern Ireland)
- The William B. and Maryloo Spooner Schallek Memorial Graduate Award (Awards for graduate education in fields relating to the life and times of King Richard III or late fifteenth-century England)
- Florence Gould Foundation Pre-Dissertation Fellowships for Research in France
- American-Scandinavian Foundation
- German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Grants
- Frederick Douglass Institute Fellowship (Dissertation funds for African and African-American Studies)
- Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation Fellowships (For Dissertation Research Abroad in the field of Chinese studies)
- Asian Cultural Council Humanities Fellowships
- Jennings Randolph Program for International Peace Dissertation Fellowships
Women and Minorities
- Paul & Daisy Soros Graduate Fellowships for New Americans
- Hispanic Scholarship Fund
- American Association of University Women Dissertation Fellowships (Fellowships for the final year of doctoral work for women in any field.)
- Jeanne Humphrey Block Dissertation Awards (Grants for dissertation research on sex and gender differences)
The Job Market and Beyond:
PhD Resources - Obtaining Employment
Resouces from the Re-envisioning the PhD Project
Career Services Center
Marquette's Career Center web page offers job postings through CareerTRAK; MUSCAN provides a career networking connection with other MU alumni, and there are links to national databases of job listings, job search advice, and listings of graduate and professional schools.
- The Association of Graduate Schools in Catholic Colleges and Universities (Post your CV here and check the job listings.)
- The Career Network - First-Person Columns (Chronicle of Higher Education)
- The Career Network - Job Listings (Chronicle of Higher Education)
- Online Career Center - PhDs and PostDocs (UC-Berkeley)
- A Yellow Wood: Diverging Career Pathways for Humanities PhDs (UC-Santa Barbara)
- The Humanities at Work (Woodrow Wilson Foundation)
Useful Books and Guides:
The Chicago Guide to Your Academic Career: A Portable Mentor for Scholars from Graduate School through Tenure. By John A. Goldsmith, John Komlos, and Penny Schine Gold. (U Chicago P, 2001)
- finding a mentor
- financing graduate education
- avoiding pitfalls in your dissertation
- presenting conference papers
- finding the right journal and submitting articles
- assembling a dossier
- receiving and evaluating job offers
- evaluating student work
- applying for grants
- obtaining tenure
- how to prepare, start and sustain good class discussions
- how to create a good syllabus
- how to deal with passive, voluble, and disruptive students
- how to evaluate students' writing
- how to avoid and handle cheating and plagiarism
- how to balance your responsibilities as graduate student and teacher