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Collaboration: It’s More Than Just a Joint Effort
By Karen S. Wilson This post marks the second 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...
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How About Some Optimism? Changing the Conversation around Career Prospects...
By Jason Steinhauer In February I had the privilege of visiting a public university in the Midwest and meeting with students from its graduate history program, both masters and PhD candidates. I left...
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Communication: The Skill You’re Probably Taking for Granted
By Lindsey Martin This post marks the third 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...
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Quantitative Literacy for Historians: Who’s Afraid of Numbers?
By Nicholas Mulder and Madeline Woker This post marks the fourth 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...
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On Being a Historian Today: The Importance of Digital Literacy
This post marks the fifth 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:...
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Who’s Afraid of Being a Generalist? On Being a Historian outside the Academy
By Rachel Feinmark After two years of endless academic job applications, Skype interviews, and harrowing job talks, I was exhausted from reinventing myself on a daily basis. For all the effort, I was...
View ArticleAHA Announces 2016 Career Diversity for Historians Departmental Grants
The AHA is pleased to announce the awardees of its second round of Career Diversity for Historians Departmental Grants. Each department will receive $3,000 from Career Diversity for Historians to fund...
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A Historian in the Stacks: Finding a Professional Home in the Library
By Annie Johnson Unlike most graduate students, when I started my history PhD at the University of Southern California, I knew I did not want to be a professor. Fresh out of the public humanities...
View ArticleWhat I Do: Ramona Houston, Entrepreneur and Activist-Scholar
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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Historians Leading the Way to the Future of PhD Education
The National Endowment for the Humanities announced today the awardees of its Next Generation PhD: Planning and Implementation Grants. The grants will support efforts at a range of institutions to...
View ArticleWhat I Do: Stephanie Young, Policy Analyst
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...
View ArticleWhat I Do: Aaron Marrs, US Department of State
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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Historians in Training: Interning at an Academic Journal
By Caroline Séquin Last year I spent some time in Paris conducting archival research for my dissertation and working as an assistant editor for Clio, Femmes, Genre, Histoire, the French leading...
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Owning Our Graduate Education: Preparing for Career Diversity
By Jessica Derleth and Tiffany Baugh-Helton Jessica and Tiffany While attending the AHA’s 2016 annual meeting, Jessica and I—PhD candidates in history at Binghamton University in New York—had a...
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Mellon Foundation Grant Expands Impact and Scope of Career Diversity for...
The American Historical Association is pleased to announce the receipt of a $1.5 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to continue and expand its work on Career Diversity for Historians....
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Connecting the Dots between History and Policymaking: My Internship at the...
When I started my MA program in history at American University in Washington, DC, last fall, I was absolutely sure I was on the track to becoming a tenured professor. I have always enjoyed discussing...
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Becoming an Assistant Professor: Things I Wish I’d Known as a Grad Student
By Jared Hardesty As I gear up for another AHA annual meeting, I have been reflecting a lot about my own transition from graduate student to assistant professor. Mostly it’s because this will be my...
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Broadening Your Career Horizon: Practical Advice for Using the AHA’s Career...
By Katie Streit The challenging academic job market facing historians is one topic that is frequently discussed in graduate courses, academic journals, and job reports. While students are aware of the...
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“What Transferable Skills Do I Have?” Preparing for Careers within and beyond...
By Jessica Derleth Second to my fervent goal of not flubbing my paper presentation, I arrived at the 2017 AHA annual meeting hoping to find answers to one of my most pressing questions: how do I...
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Researching the Quinceañera: My Graduate Internship at the National Hispanic...
By Margaret DePond From May 2015 to October 2015, I worked as an intern for the National Hispanic Cultural Center (NHCC). Opened in 2000 and located just south of downtown Albuquerque, the NHCC serves...
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