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The Language of Professionalization: Potential Pitfalls
by Kate Creasey Over the past year I have started to participate in discussions about career diversity for humanities graduate students. Essentially, there are two different conversations taking...
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My First Year beyond the Professoriate: “Challenge and Opportunity” for a New...
By Thai Jones In anticipation of a new academic year, we solicited reflections from three early-career historians on their first years in new positions. Today, Thai Jones talks about his first year as...
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Connecting Young Historians: An NHC Outreach Intern Reflects on Her Summer
By Chelsea Tegels Where will my history degree take me? What will I do with it? What careers are available to a historian? As a current graduate student in history, I’ve been thinking about these...
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My Two-Year Tour: Exploring What to Do with My MA as a Grad Student
While at the AHA, I’ve been hearing a lot of conversations on graduate education and careers that have resonated with my own experience as an MA student at the University of Virginia. I’m a bit of a...
View ArticleWhat I Do: Valerie Paley, New-York Historical Society
As part of the Career Diversity for Historians initiative, the AHA is producing and making available short videos of historians working in unusual places talking about what they do. The newest video...
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My First Year on the Tenure Track
By Marsha Barrett In anticipation of a new academic year, we solicited reflections from three early-career historians on their first years in new positions. Today, Marsha Barrett talks about her first...
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My First Year in Graduate School
By Skyler Reidy To celebrate a new academic year, we solicited reflections from three early-career historians on their first years in new positions. Today, Skyler Reidy talks about his first year in...
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Modeling Bermuda and Making History Work
By Aiala Levy This summer, I opted to swap Chicago’s mild heat for the scorching Bermudan sun. The 18th-century Bermudan sun, to be more precise. Without leaving my desk in the Digital History Lab at...
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Collaboration & Career Development
By Karen S. Wilson and Annie Maxfield Collaboration in the humanities and humanistic social sciences has been rare, at least until the relatively recent rise in digital humanities. As scholars, we have...
View ArticleAHA Announces Inaugural Career Diversity for Historians Departmental Grants
Our first year of Career Diversity for Historians has confirmed what we initially suspected: addressing the issues embedded in graduate education requires grappling with the particularities of location...
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“Professoring” 101: A Day in the Life of a History Professor
By Jennifer McPherson Whether in research or teaching, as historians we wrestle with the big questions of our specialized fields. Unfortunately, far too often one of the biggest questions about the...
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Coffee and Careers: Why You Should Attend the 2016 Career Fair in Atlanta
If the thought of a Career Fair makes you shudder, it’s probably because you haven’t been to one at the AHA annual meeting. For the past two years, under the auspices of Career Diversity for...
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A Historian in the Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs: Reflections on...
Last spring Nisha Agarwal, the New York City commissioner on immigration, spoke to my students at Columbia University on the recent history of immigrants in New York City. As she detailed the services...
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The GECC Open Forum on Career Diversity: Structural Change, Practical...
By Anna L. Krome-Lukens At an Open Forum hosted by the AHA’s Graduate and Early Career Committee (GECC), this was Karen Wilson’s message for graduate students concerned about their job prospects: We...
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Futures of History: Empowering the Next Generation of Historians through...
By Grace Ballor Recent efforts to professionalize doctoral students in history for careers beyond the professoriate, including initiatives such as the AHA’s Career Diversity for Historians, have faced...
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“Are You on the Job Market?” Reframing Casual Conversations about Careers
“Are you on the job market?” “No,” I said, pointing to the bold red ribbon imprinted with “AHA Staff” attached to my name badge. “I already have one. I’m the associate editor, publications, at the...
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New Project Highlights “Legions” of Classicists outside Academia
By Caroline Wazer In 2013, the American Historical Association released a report on the career outcomes of 2,500 history PhDs who received their degrees between 1998 and 2009. The report found that...
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Futures of History and the Language of Career Diversity
By Lindsey Martin Few would turn down an opportunity to visit Los Angeles in late February. But when over 100 historians, including graduate students, faculty, and colleagues employed beyond academia,...
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Career Diversity Five Skills: Intellectual Self-Confidence; Or, How I Learned...
This post marks the first in a series on what we’ve come to call the Career Diversity Five Skills—five things graduate students need to succeed as professors and in careers beyond the academy. So here...
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An Americanist in Meknès: Applying Historical Training and Skills to Diverse...
By Darren A. Raspa At its finest the news media connects us with human stories and events. As historians, it is these records of humanity from the past that drive us and link us to the people, events,...
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