- Students |
- Faculty/Staff |
- Alumni |
- News |
- Departments |
- Directory
.
Humanities Express
- Publisher: College of Humanities of The Ohio State University
- Volume IIII Issue 7
- July 2008
- Humanities Express Home
Humanities Program Spotlight:
Professor Maurice Stevens (Comparative Studies) leads a PHD program seminar
The Program for Humanities Development (PHD), a two-year research and mentoring program for undergraduates in humanities planning to pursue a Ph.D., is one of the only programs of its kind in the United States. In the words of Cyndi Freeman Fail, the director of recruitment initiatives in the Graduate School, "there is nothing like this in any other school in the Big 10."
In this inaugural year, 14 students from historically underrepresented groups from colleges and universities around the country gathered at OSU for the first of two summers of hands-on work with faculty in their chosen fields, together with targeted instruction on how to navigate the transition between undergraduate and graduate study in the Humanities from faculty, graduate students, and their peers. The two-year program provides free room and board through the Summer Research Opportunities Program (SROP), eight hours of college course credit, and comes with a monetary stipend of $6,000.
John Camacho, a student in the program studying with Donald Hubin (Philosophy) calls it a "great opportunity" to meet with "engaged professors." He praises the "group cohesion" of the PHD students, and the way that the program "opens your eyes" to the possibilities of graduate and post-graduate work. The range of student work in this year's cohort is impressive—students are studying vocal performance, linguistics, history, philosophy and quantum physics, sexuality studies, and a triple combination of Spanish and Portuguese, history, and comparative studies. One student, working with Cindy Selfe (English), is making a digital archive of the PHD program itself. Other faculty working with students in the PHD program include: Valerie Lee (English), Debra Moddelmog (English), Jim Phelan (English), James Sanders (Art Education), Hasan Jeffries (History), and Allan Silverman (Philosophy). The program is directed by Maurice Stevens (Comparative Studies), who, with Valerie Lee, was one of the primary forces behind the creation of the PHD, and is ably assisted by Tiffani Clyburn (graduate student, English) and Jason Perkins (graduate student, History).
Please visit the Program in Humanities Development Web site.
Summer Mentoring Program Kicks Off Inaugural Year
Professor Maurice Stevens (Comparative Studies) leads a PHD program seminar
In this inaugural year, 14 students from historically underrepresented groups from colleges and universities around the country gathered at OSU for the first of two summers of hands-on work with faculty in their chosen fields, together with targeted instruction on how to navigate the transition between undergraduate and graduate study in the Humanities from faculty, graduate students, and their peers. The two-year program provides free room and board through the Summer Research Opportunities Program (SROP), eight hours of college course credit, and comes with a monetary stipend of $6,000.
John Camacho, a student in the program studying with Donald Hubin (Philosophy) calls it a "great opportunity" to meet with "engaged professors." He praises the "group cohesion" of the PHD students, and the way that the program "opens your eyes" to the possibilities of graduate and post-graduate work. The range of student work in this year's cohort is impressive—students are studying vocal performance, linguistics, history, philosophy and quantum physics, sexuality studies, and a triple combination of Spanish and Portuguese, history, and comparative studies. One student, working with Cindy Selfe (English), is making a digital archive of the PHD program itself. Other faculty working with students in the PHD program include: Valerie Lee (English), Debra Moddelmog (English), Jim Phelan (English), James Sanders (Art Education), Hasan Jeffries (History), and Allan Silverman (Philosophy). The program is directed by Maurice Stevens (Comparative Studies), who, with Valerie Lee, was one of the primary forces behind the creation of the PHD, and is ably assisted by Tiffani Clyburn (graduate student, English) and Jason Perkins (graduate student, History).
Please visit the Program in Humanities Development Web site.
