The Loyola Career Pathways Series are open to all graduate students in the humanities, however some workshops may also be of interest to faculty and undergraduates. Event descriptions are listed below. Contact the History Department Career Pathways Graduate Assistant, Hannah Lahti [hlahti@luc.edu] with any questions.
Fall 2022
Monday, 3 October 2022, 1:00 – 2:00 PM
Informational Interviews: Exploring Career Pathways Outside of Academia
Learning more about career pathways outside of academia requires a little research. Speaking with professionals in those fields can give graduate students the opportunity to learn more about the daily responsibilities of those positions. This panel features three graduate students who have organized informational interviews with professionals in different fields, and share their experiences and advice for graduate students who are interested in exploring career paths outside of the academy.
Monday, 17 October 2022, 1:00 – 2:00 PM
How to: Conferences
Professional and academic conferences are great ways to share your work, meet other professionals, and learn about the current topics and debates in your field. This panel features four historians who speak to their experiences presenting, volunteering, and coordinating history conferences. Topics such as funding conference travel, registration, presentations, panels, moderators, volunteer positions, and so much more will be unpacked by our panelists. Remember — registering to present and / or volunteer at the Loyola History Department’s HGSA Conference 2023 is a great way to get started with conferences!
Monday, 7 November 2022, 1:00 – 2:00 PM
Transferrable Skills: What We Bring to the Table
This discussion offers the opportunity for current history graduate students to reflect not only on the skills that they are developing in their graduate programs, but also to consider the skills and experience that they currently maintain. The discussion allows graduate students to reflect on their own experience while also learning more about their colleagues and their academic and professional goals.
Wednesday, 16 November 2022, 4:00 – 5:00 PM
How to: Internships
This panel features current graduate students and public history alumni in conversation about public history internships. Internships offer opportunities to dive into the public history work that happens in a variety of institutions and encourages graduate students to apply the skills that they are learning in their programs. Panelists will discuss the many things that they learned while doing their public history internships and offer advice for soon-to-be interns on how to get started and have a successful internship experience.
Wednesday, 30 November 22, 1:00 – 2:00 PM
Teaching and Learning with Perusall
This event explores the social learning platform Perusall. Dr. Shermer of the History Department will introduce the site and present on how she integrates the platform into her in-class and online learning. This event is especially helpful for all current and future instructors of record, as well as any History Department faculty interested in learning more about Perusall and how to manage classroom engagement using this tool.
Spring 2023
Tuesday, 24 January 2023, 3:30 – 4:30 PM
How to: Conference Posters
Participating in academic and professional conferences is an important part of graduate student professional development. In this event, HGSA Conference 2023 co-chairs Caroline Lauber and Caroline Handley will explain on how to create and present posters for conference poster sessions. The event is helpful for all graduate students interested in presenting at professional and humanities conferences — especially for undergraduate presenters at the HGSA Conference 2023.
Thursday, 9 February 2023, 3:00 – 4:00 PM
Social Media for the Real World: Preparing to Curate Your Online Presence
Loyola University Chicago’s history subject librarian, Jane Currie, joins us to present a workshop on planning and implementing a digital presence for graduate students. This workshop asks graduate students to consider their current online activity and how they might professionalize their digital brand, from deciding useful platforms to scheduling posts and engagement.
Tuesday, 28 February 2023, 1:00 – 2:00 PM
Creating Individual Development Plans (IDPs)
This workshop introduces the concept of Individual Development Plans (IDPs) for graduate students’ academic self reflection and professional goal-setting. The event aims to support graduate students as they prepare for their chart a plan for their next professional and academic goals. All History Department PhD Students are required to prepare an IDP for their advising meetings, and MA and MA / MLIS Students are also encouraged to prepare IDPs.