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Kaplan Institute Public Humanities Graduate Practicum 2025-26: Application Form
The Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities is pleased to invite applications for the 2025-26 Public Humanities Graduate Practicum. Fellows in this year-long, cohort-based workshop series will develop a public humanities project while receiving training, feedback, and financial support from the Kaplan Institute. Any PhD student in the humanities or humanistic social sciences is welcome to apply. The deadline for applications is October 13, 2025 at 11:59PM CST.
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Your proposal should be uploaded as a PDF document of no more than two single-spaced pages. Please include your last name in the file name (ex. Smith_Proposal), and include your name and home department in the document header.
The proposal should address each of the following prompts. The parenthetical questions are meant to help jumpstart your thinking; you do not need to answer them all.
(1) Describe your interest in the public humanities. (What does publicly engaged humanistic work mean to you? What is its significance or relevance from your perspective? How do your personal background, experiences, and/or interests shape your vision of the public humanities?)
(2) Describe your proposed project. (What project do you plan to work on this year? Why is this project important? Who are your intended audiences or collaborators? What do you envision the final product/event will look like? What is its estimated scale—ex. duration, medium, participants, number of episodes? How would you use your $600 in project funds?)
(3) Describe the technical skills and equipment your project requires. (What skills do you need to complete your proposed project? What materials and equipment do you need, and how do you plan to access them? How do you plan to develop the new technical skills required to complete the project?)
(4) Describe your interest in this Practicum. (Why do you want to participate in this Practicum? What are you hoping to gain from it? How might it contribute to your research objectives, your professional development, and/or your personal goals?)
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