The AHA is part of Doctoral Futures, an initiative to reimagine humanities PhD programs with new structures, policies, and academic cultures that will better prepare the next generation of knowledge producers. Emily Chesley (Princeton Univ.), who previously worked as a Princeton GradFUTURES fellow at the AHA, attended AHA26 in her capacity as a member of the Doctoral Futures Advisory Group. She has published a piece about her experience at the meeting and listening to attendees discuss the future of graduate education: “How do we draft blueprints for a bigger, stronger boat when we’re already cautious about rocking the one we’re in? That subject, I admit, I don’t have all the answers for. But surely part of weathering a storm involves imagining the world on the other side?”
