Humanities Views - Katina Rogers, Ph.D., Scholarship for the Public Good

Syracuse University Gradcast

Katina Rogers, Ph.D., author of Putting the Humanities PhD to Work: Thriving in and beyond the Classroom (Duke UP, 2020) gives a little background on the talk she gave during the initial publication of this episode, Scholarship for the Public Good: Expanding Definitions of Academic Success. Katina also shared her path from a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from UC Boulder to her current work at CUNY Graduate Center, including her work in the Futures Initiative.

Scholarship for the Public Good: Expanding Definitions of Academic Success

Doctoral education opens doors to engaging and often unexpected pathways, with opportunities for significant public impact—an essential element of reinvesting in higher education as a public good. In this talk, Katina Rogers, author of Putting the Humanities PhD to Work: Thriving in and beyond the Classroom (Duke UP, 2020), will consider how building a university that is truly worth fighting for means thinking more expansively about what constitutes scholarly success—not only to support individual career pathways, but also to work toward greater equity and inclusion in the academy. Rogers will talk about her own pathway and her current work with the CUNY Graduate Center, including the Futures Initiative that aims to design new structures for higher education.