American Historical Association

Articles on Graduate Student Issues and Concerns

Graduate Education | Labor Issues | Job Market and Concerns 

While many of the following items were News or Opinion pieces, the column, Issues in Graduate Education, is generating a growing number of articles. This is not a complete listing of all articles available. Additional articles on graduate studies are available from the Perspectives Searchable Database.

Graduate Education

• Planning a Graduate Student Conference
  
• Preparing Future Faculty: Teaching the Academic Life
  
• Adapting the PhD Oral Exam: A Call for Discussion
  
  • Pedagogy for the PhD Student? Another Response to Peter Stearns's Proposal
  • A Response to Peter Stearns's Proposal: Teaching Exams: Some Suggestions
    
• Inscribing Your Future: The Trials and Tribulations of Applying to Graduate School
  
• With Their Eyes Wide Open: Guides to Graduate School and Beyond

 

Labor Issues

• Facing the Future: Collaborations and Partnerships
  
• Graduate Student Radicalism
  
• What is a TA?
  
  
  

Job Market and Concerns

• Further on the Margins: Graduate Students as Part-Time Teachers
  
• Reflections on the Job Register
  
• Rethinking the Role of History Graduate Programs
  
• Facing the Indignities of the Job Market
  
• Historians Have the "Job Market" All Wrong
  
• Training for What? Issues in Graduate Education
  
• See Additional Perspectives Articles on Part-Time Employment and Teaching

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Last Updated: August 6, 2007