The Center for Digital and Public Humanities hosts a number of career and skills development workshops every semester. All students at UMKC are welcome to attend, but broadly, the purpose of these workshops are to support the development of public and digital humanities skills, and to prepare humanities students for the job market post graduation.
If you are interested in promoting your workshops through the Center for Digital and Public Humanites, please contact Michael R. Sprague at spraguemr@umkc.edu.
Mellon Humanities Interns will be prepared for what to expect from their internship experiences, business etiquette, professional communication, and more. A recording of the event can be found here.
Hosted by Dylan Greene from UMKC Career Services, humanities interns will be introduced to the different services offered on campus. Dylan will address help with resumes, elevator pitches, professional communication and more!
Hosted by Matt Reeves from the Linda Hall Library, this workshop will focus on helping students effectively communicate to potential employers the skill sets they have developed through their Humanities, DPH, and Entrepreneurial Thinking training and experiences.
This workshop will cover and apply basic concepts related to fostering the mindset of an entrepreneur and the entrepreneurial process, essential tools and frameworks entrepreneurs utilize, and how to use these concepts and tools for defining, proposing, and scoping a project for a client or customer.
Humanities alumni from UMKC discuss strategies for students to prepare for their careers post-graduation. Networking, resumes, securing grants to start initiatives or business, among others will be topics of discussion.
A social gathering where the internship cohort can celebrate and reflect on their internship experiences.
For additional events, we recommend checking into Career Services' events calendar.
You may also be interested in events held by the Henry W. Bloch School of Management, including the First Tuesday: Entrepreneur Speaker Series. More information can be found on their event calendar.
Learn how to create exciting and engaging infographics for virtually anything with little to no design experience using Canva. All skill levels welcome, but this workshop will be tailored to beginners.
Revolutionary advances in ancient DNA research are transforming not only our understanding of the distant past of the human race but also offering a potentially powerful, if problematic, new tool for medieval research.
Zotero Version 7 has arrived! New users can learn the basics for using this citation management tool, and previous users can learn about some of the recent updates to the software. We will be using Zoom for this session. You will need to have access to a reliable internet connection, a desktop/laptop computer (smartphone/tablet not recommended), a video camera, and a mic (can be attached to regular headphones).
Hosted by Dr. Andrew Fialka, Professor of History at Middle Tennessee State University. Database management is the key to wedding historical data with the plethora of DH tools available—ArcGIS included. This is particularly difficult with archival sources full of incomplete information, cryptic definitions, and hidden meanings. This instruction will enable students to get the most out of their research by organizing it in a compatible format. Spatial analyses add another tool to historians’ toolbelt. This instruction will demonstrate the possibilities of looking at historical data through the lens of space.
Recently, Civil War scholars have hotly debated whether the conflict was a regular or irregular war. No consensus exists; some argue that regular armies ended secession and abolished slavery from the Constitution, while others argue that irregular war dictated most Americans experience of the war. Fialka will demonstrate how the war’s data collection process shapes this debate and how a twenty-first century catalogue of the war’s violence sways the debate toward the irregular camp. By seeking funding and labor partnerships with political science departments at UPenn and Yale, a research team has made a new dataset of Civil War violence—one that adds contemporary primary sources to the federal government’s Official Records of the war. Analyses show radically more instances of irregular violence than previously catalogued and a direct link between irregular violence and the U.S. army’s recruitment of Black troops.
Hosted by Dr. Andrew Fialka, Professor of History at Middle Tennessee State University. How can graduate students find money to pay for digital history (DH) tools, or find the time to learn them? How can they learn DH tools and meet the textual requirements to earn their degree? How can they write from quantitative data in a way that isn’t boring to read? How can they present their findings in the best possible way? This instruction will address all the practical questions of actually doing digital humanities as a graduate student on a limited budget with the job market (or PhD applications) looming.
Zotero Version 7 has arrived! New users can learn the basics for using this citation management tool, and previous users can learn about some of the recent updates to the software. We will be using Zoom for this session. You will need to have access to a reliable internet connection, a desktop/laptop computer (smartphone/tablet not recommended), a video camera, and a mic (can be attached to regular headphones).
Zotero Version 7 has arrived! New users can learn the basics for using this citation management tool, and previous users can learn about some of the recent updates to the software. We will be using Zoom for this session. You will need to have access to a reliable internet connection, a desktop/laptop computer (smartphone/tablet not recommended), a video camera, and a mic (can be attached to regular headphones).
The Fostering an Entrepreneurial Mindset program aims to inspire students involved in Digital and Public Humanities (DPH) to bring an entrepreneurial mindset to their work. It will help humanities and social sciences students develop digital skills useful in a variety of professional settings, practice how to articulate how their academic training has prepared them for the workforce, and connect with alumni networks and internship opportunities.
The Fostering an Entrepreneurial Mindset program has two key components: 1) a series of workshops that will expand participants’ skill-sets and help prepare students for their future careers, and 2) an internship program that will allow students to apply the skills acquired in their coursework and workshops.
This program also includes a paid internship component that will allow students to put into practice the skills they have learned in the workshop series.
Several graduate students will be selected through a competitive application process to participate in a paid internship. These internships will provide essential training for students and allow them to explore possible career paths. Graduate students will earn up to $4,000 by working up to 20 hours a week for ten weeks in the SSummer or up to 13 hours a week during the Spring 2025 semester.
If you are interested in this opportunity, please attend the Kick-Off Event held in 325 Miller Nichols Library on October 15th from 12:30 - 1:30 PM to learn more about it.
The selected students are required to attend the Fostering an Entrepreneurial Mindset workshops and meet regularly as a group throughout the academic year. Each student will work with a mentor who will help them identify an internship placement, set expectations for meaningful learning experiences, and monitor their progress during the internship.
Applications for Academic Year 2025 are open. Apply here. The priority application deadline is November 15th at 11:59 PM. We will continue to accept applications until the spots are filled.
