Humanities doctoral programs are under intense scrutiny. Policy makers, scholars, and the public have questioned whether universities should be producing so many Ph.D.’s in those fields, especially ...

CHICAGO -- With many new Ph.D. recipients in the humanities struggling to find good jobs, some for years after they earned their doctorates, reform of graduate education was a hot topic here at the ...

Nancy Norris-Kniffin, director emerita of the Master of Liberal Arts program at Johns Hopkins University's Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, died Feb. 13 of cancer. She was 77. Norris-Kniffin had ...

On November 17, 2011, the MLA President, Russell Berman, published a statement, Reforming Doctoral Programs: The Sooner, The Better. He outlines how Doctoral programs in the Humanities can and should ...