Faculty and Staff
The following pages provide information that may be helpful for members of our graduate school community, including graduate coordinators, chairs and directors, program staff, recruiters, and faculty.
Resources for Dissertation Committees
Guidelines and forms for establishing the dissertation committee.
Resources for Graduate Coordinators
Rackham Graduate School provides workshops supporting graduate coordinators and program staff throughout the University of Michigan.
Resources for Directors of Graduate Programs
Communication is the ability to effectively convey your research and scholarship to multiple audiences and in a variety of media.
Facilitating Academic Success
We developed this resource to provide a central location for sharing good ideas from across campus for practices that contribute to graduate student success. Our goal is to support your efforts in every phase of graduate education-from recruiting the best students through preparing the next generation of the profession.
Supporting Diverse Graduate Students
Rackham Graduate School has a history and tradition of valuing the diversity of our students as an essential dimension of excellence in graduate education.
Rackham Office Directory
You can find information about Rackham offices through our Office Directory. If you are looking to contact a specific Rackham staff member, please use the Staff Directory.
Faculty and Program Funding
- Dean’s Strategic Initiatives
- Minority Serving Institutions (MSI) Outreach and Planning Grants
- Minority Serving Institutions (MSI) Collaboration and Implementation Grants
- National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend
- Rackham Recruitment Grant
- Rackham Faculty Allies and Student Ally Diversity Grants
- Rackham Recruiting Bootcamp Grant (ReBoot)
- Rackham Interdisciplinary Workshops (RIW)
- Michigan Meetings
Honors and Awards
- Distinguished Faculty Achievement Awards
- Distinguished University Professorships
- Faculty Recognition Awards
- Henry Russel Award
- Henry Russel Lectureship
- John H. D’Arms Faculty Awards for Distinguished Graduate Mentoring in the Humanities
- Rackham Distinguished Graduate Mentor Award
- Rackham Master’s Mentoring Award
- Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Awards
- ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Awards