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Thinking about Where Historians Work before Graduate School
Working at the American Historical Association for the past two years has made it impossible to shield myself from the uglier truths about pursuing a graduate degree in history—from the imbalance...
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Imagining a “Job Market” Beyond Supply and Demand
By Emily Swafford and Dylan Ruediger A few weeks ago, two leading higher education publications ran pieces reflecting on important trends in PhD education. Inside Higher Ed published a report...
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Odd Jobs: The Outliers of Where Historians Work
For the past 18 months, I have been supporting the ground-level research for Where Historians Work, AHA’s interactive database of cross-institutional data on history PhD job outcomes. After many long...
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Professional Pathways: What’s New at AHA18
Through its work, the AHA has learned that popular wisdom severely underestimates the value and versatility of a history degree. As the seat of the federal government, home to a battery of museums and...
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Research-Oriented: Translating a History PhD into a Successful Career at a...
By Ashton Merck Think tanks, also known as research institutes, advocacy organizations, and policy centers, are often described as “universities without students.” These organizations run the gamut of...
View ArticleAHA Announces 2018–20 Career Diversity Implementation Grants
The American Historical Association is pleased to announce the recipients of its 2018–20 Career Diversity Implementation Grants, part of the Career Diversity for Historians initiative. The recipients,...
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Exploring Career Possibilities with ImaginePhD
By Kaete O’Connell I arrived at my first AHA annual meeting layered in clothing and emotions. The expected trepidation (is there anything more overwhelming than stepping into a hotel literally buzzing...
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The Gallery and the Gridiron: Learning about Career Diversity at an NFL...
By Matthew Reeves When I arrived at the headquarters of the Kansas City Chiefs Football Club it was like landing on another planet. Gone were the cinderblock walls, linoleum flooring, and flickering...
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Broadening Horizons: Graduate Students Dive into Curation at a Community Museum
By Misha Appeltova, Zach Nacev, and Gregory Valdespino We stopped in front of a painting portraying a group of villagers by a river. “What do you see?” asked Elsie Hector Hernandez, owner and director...
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The Geography of History PhDs
The AHA’s “Where Historians Work” is an ambitious research project designed to track the career outcomes of everyone who earned a PhD in history from 2004–13 in the United States. Last year, we...
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