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 ...

When Laura DeSisto arrived in Baltimore in 2017 to lead Johns Hopkins' Master of Liberal Arts program, she was eager to embrace both the administrative and teaching aspects of the job, which would put ...

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 ...

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 ...

NEW YORK, Aug. 6, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), the American Historical Association (AHA), and the Modern Language Association (MLA) commend Judge Colleen ...

Pratt Institute’s School of Architecture will launch a new Master’s in Landscape Architecture (MLA) program in fall 2022. The program will enable students to integrate multiple fields of knowledge in ...

As an affiliated organization of the MLA, the SCE has two standing panels at each annual convention. Usually, SCE programs grow out of continuing projects that Society members are pursuing. This ...

As an affiliated organization of the MLA, the SCE has one or two standing panels at each annual convention. Usually, SCE programs grow out of continuing projects that Society members pursue. The ...