This guide helps graduate students navigate the annual meeting by highlighting panels, roundtables, workshops, and receptions that may be of particular interest to graduate students. It is by no means comprehensive. Sessions featured here include panels on the state of the discipline, sessions focused on professional development for historians working across an array of career pathways, discussions about methodology and practice, and more.

Thursday, January 4, 2024

Getting the Most Out of the Annual Meeting
12:30–1:30 p.m.

Education Programs, History Departments, and the Current State of K–12 Teacher Preparation
1:30–3 p.m.

Teaching Latin American History: Strategies, Experiments, and Experiences
1:30–3 p.m.

Peeking behind the Professional Curtain: Public Facing Research and the Application of History
1:30–3 p.m. 

Is It Terminal? Revisiting the History Master’s Degree
3:30–5 p.m.
Joint session with the Coordinating Council for Women in History

Historians for Mental Health: An Open Discussion
3:30–5 p.m.
Organized by the AHA Professional Division

New Directions in World History
3:30–5 p.m.

Reception for Graduate Students
5–6 p.m.
Sponsored by the Department of History, University of California, Berkeley; Organized by the AHA Graduate and Early Career Committee

Friday, January 5, 2024

Introductory Graduate Courses in the Age of Career Persity
8:30-10 a.m.

Op-Ed Workshop
8:30–11:30 a.m.
Free advance registration is required

Graduate and Early Career Committee Guided Conversation
10:30 a.m.–12 p.m.
Organized by the AHA Graduate and Early Career Committee

Effective Mentorship and Advising in History Graduate Programs
10:30 a.m.–12 p.m.
Organized by the AHA Professional Division

Navigating the Stages of a Community College Career in Teaching History
10:30 a.m.–12 p.m.

How I Work: Four Historians on Process
10:30 a.m.–12 p.m.
Joint session with the Coordinating Council for Women in History

Historians and the"Culture Wars" in Higher Education
1:30-3 p.m.
Organized by the AHA Professional Division

Embracing Messy Numbers: A Roundtable on Finding, Making, and Using Historical Data
1:30-3 p.m.

Student Movements and Youth Activism: A Global Perspective
1:30–3 p.m.

What Next for History Majors?
3:30–5 p.m.
Organized by the AHA Professional Division

Advocating for History: A Workshop on Steps and Strategies to Support the Discipline
3:30–5 p.m.
>Organized by the AHA Teaching Division

Saturday, January 6, 2024

“Alt-Ac” at the Crossroads: Advice and Guidance for the New History Majority
8:30–10 a.m.

Meet Perspectives on History
8:30–10 a.m.

Disciplinary Advantage: Historians as Administrators
10:30 a.m.–12 p.m.
Organized by the AHA Professional Division

Career Fair
12:30-3 p.m.

Create Confident Researchers by Teaching Them to Ask Their Own Questions
3:30–5 p.m.

So You Want to Publish in an Academic Journal
3:30–5 p.m.

Publishing Digital History: A State of the Field
3:30–5 p.m.
Joint session with the Association for Computers and the Humanities

Sunday, January 7, 2024

Digital Dossiers on and Off the Tenure Track: Dos, Don’ts, and D’ohs
9–10:30 a.m.
Organized by the AHA Digital History Working Group

What Is Global History Now?
9–10:30 a.m.
Joint session with the Toynbee Prize Foundation

Historical and Cultural Studies Approaches to Forgotten, Overlooked, and Ignored Histories
9–10:30 a.m.

Fed Up with the Academic Job Market and Career Path? Pathways for Historians in the Federal Government
9–10:30 a.m.
Organized by the AHA Professional Division

AI and the Historical Profession: Applications and Implications
11 a.m.–12:30 p.m.

Podcasting, Pedagogy, and Publics: A Roundtable on History Delivered Right to your Ears
11 a.m.–12:30 p.m.

Reimagining American History: How Digital Scholarship and Media Enhance Historical Accessibility and Teachability
11 a.m.–12:30 p.m.