Power and the Professoriate

This course familiarizes students with the various features of academic careers in the humanities. The course considers histories and current debates around labor and resource allocation within the academic humanities, with units on research, teaching, service, and mentorship. We will focus on power, identity, and the "diversification" of the professoriate within U.S. institutions of higher education in the past 50 years, with special consideration of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and its longstanding PhD pipeline effort, the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program.