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This week on the blog: Should you go to graduate school - more specifically, should you go to graduate school in one of the academic (rather than professional) disciplines of the humanities? I love the humanities, but I'm sorry to say the answer is no.https://acoup.blog/2021/10/01/collections-so-you-want-to-go-to-grad-school-in-the-academic-humanities/ …
This post was raw and difficult to write, but I get this question every year and I think honesty is important. Does our country (and the world more generally) need humanistic scholars? I'd argue the answer is yes!
But we can't ask students to spend the next 7 years living within shouting range of the poverty line in high costs towns while delaying life milestones working 80 hour weeks under conditions that induce anxiety/depression at 6 times the rate of the general population...
...all to train for a job that mostly likely does exist! I said this in the post but I also want to reiterate it here: this isn't an overproduction problem (PhDs granted per-year in history have been flat for two decades).
And it isn't a demand problem. My classes fill! College enrollments keep rising! But universities are systematically transferring resources away from instruction and towards amenities and administration. I wrote about it here:https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/08/why-state-universities-have-no-other-choice-but-to-reopen/615565/ …
They are also systematically transferring resources away from the humanities, which are inexpensive to teach on a per-student basis, to STEM, which is very expensive to teach on a per-student basis.
The grad school experience needs to be improved in a lot of ways (better mental health resources would be a start) but its all pointless of the jobs it is training for increasingly don't exist - or rather exist in the form of underpaid, overworked adjuncts.
Unfortunately, I think what we are seeing is a process where the humanities are re-aristocratified, made inaccessible for all but the wealthy. And that's tragic, because the humanities are important! But it also *is* and we should be honest about it.https://acoup.blog/2020/07/03/collections-the-practical-case-on-why-we-need-the-humanities/ …
In any event, between the bad job prospects, high rates of mental illness, high stress and terrible pay, etc. ... I don't think I'd recommend anyone pursue graduate studies in the humanities, unless you are already rich and just want to kill time.https://acoup.blog/2021/10/01/collections-so-you-want-to-go-to-grad-school-in-the-academic-humanities/ …
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