Workshops

Graduates from the Department of History PhD program pursue careers in the academy, government, nonprofits, and the private sector. To facilitate the search process, the Department annually offers workshops for its PhD students. Please check back for an updated calendar of events.

Resources

The Chicago Center for Teaching provides a certificate in teaching, teaching consultations, training in course design and college teaching, and an advanced fellows program.

UChicagoGRAD provides advising, internships, and job fairs for all Chicago graduate students and alumni. 

PATHS (Professional Advancement and Training for Humanities Scholars) provides additional resources for History students at all stages of their academic careers.

UChicagoGRAD

UChicago GRAD offers a large range of workshops and events covering topics like tailoring your job applications, practicing for interviews, or how to effectively communicate your research to wider audiences. These events can be a great way to get a wider range of expertise and perspective on your job materials and possible career opportunities after the PhD, as well as a great way to connect with other people in different fields who are going through similar application processes. For upcoming UChicagoGRAD events that might be of interest consult the full calendar of career development events (including locations, further details, and RSVP links). Note: you do need to make a UChicago GRAD account to register and see details for events.

The University of Chicago created the graduate workshops in 1982 to encourage intellectual exchange among students and faculty in the humanities, social sciences, and divinity studies. Widely replicated at other universities, UChicago workshops sponsor talks by PhD candidates, local scholars, and those from the extended global community. Debate and critical inquiry in workshops are a vital part of our students' education and scholarly agenda. They foster a sense of community and provide graduate students a forum for sharing their dissertation research and establishing valuable networks with students and scholars whose research interests are aligned with their own. 

History graduate students are active in over twenty workshops, which are sponsored by the Council on Advanced Studies Workshops. Each year, the CAS provides a list of all active workshops on campus, contact information for each workshop's leadership, and links to relevant webpages. Therefore, if you are interested in participating in one or more workshops, we recommend you contact the workshop coordinator or faculty advisor and visit the workshops' webpages for more information. 

African Studies
Ancient Societies
Early Modern and Mediterranean Worlds (1200-1800)
East Asia: Trans-Regional Histories
Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-century Atlantic Cultures
Environmental Studies
Gender and Sexuality Studies
History and Theory of Capitalism
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Modern France 
Jewish Studies
Latin American and the Caribbean
Latin American History
Medicine and Its Objects
Medieval Studies
Politics, History, and Society
Renaissance
Transnational Approaches to Modern Europe
US History & Culture