Humanities Clinic relaunches for its third pilot summer
The Wayne State University Humanities Clinic relaunched on June 1 for its third pilot summer.
Modeled on a legal clinic, the Humanities Clinic is based in the Department of History and makes the skills and expertise of humanities graduate students available, for free, to community partners throughout Detroit.
Since 2017, the Clinic has doubled in size with twelve graduate student interns currently working with with twenty community partners.
Current community partners include:
Clinic interns are enrolled in Ph.D. or M.A. programs history, communications, sociology, anthropology, English, classical and modern languages, and political science at Wayne State.
The dual function of the Clinic is to provide free services to our community partners and to help prepare graduate students for meaningful careers beyond academia. Interns support community organizations by writing grants, copy editing, conducting archival research, managing digital archives, performing quantitative research and historical documentation, and qualitative data analysis including program evaluation; interns are also taking on projects that involve graphic design, media development, administrative work, project development, and community outreach.
The clinic began in Summer 2017 with funding from a NextGenPhD grant and is currently made possible with support from the American Historical Association Career Diversity Initiative, the Graduate School, the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Wayne State University Press, the Department of History, the Department of Political Science, the Department of English the Department of Anthropology and the Department of Classical & Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures.
Clinic internships ended on August 31 and the Clinic hosted a luncheon for its stakeholders at Tierney Alumni House on August 21.
To learn more about the work that the Humanities Clinic is doing this summer, follow @WSUHumClinic on Twitter.