Awards & Grants

The AHA offers annual prizes honoring exceptional books, distinguished teaching and mentoring in the classroom, public history, digital projects, and other historical work. We also offer grants and fellowships supporting the research of historians.

AHA Career Center

Whether you’re looking to find a job or to advertise a position, the AHA Career Center is the go-to hub for connecting with history professionals.

Connect with Our Communities

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Over 125 history-oriented organizations are affiliated with the AHA, representing a broad network of organizations promoting collaboration and communication across the history community.

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Cross-disciplinary coalitions that provide greater access to networks, leadership, and resources that support the AHA’s mission.

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Members Making News highlights the accomplishments of AHA members.

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To recognize our talented and eclectic membership, the AHA features a regular Member Spotlight series.

Institutional & Student Memberships

The AHA is committed to helping leaders navigate the challenges facing the discipline of history at colleges and universities, as well as in libraries, archives, and K–12 schools. Institutional members can purchase discounted student memberships for only $30 each.

Create Connections

AHA 2020 K-12 Reception

Our Career Contacts program arranges informational interviews between current PhD and history PhDs who have built careers beyond the professoriate.

Networking

Follow the AHA on social media platforms to stay up-to-date with our latest news and activities.

Professional & Career Resources

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Standards & Guidelines for the Discipline

The AHA has developed a series of best practices for excellence in professional behavior, research, and teaching.

Not just a step on the way to a PhD, the terminal history MA deserves more attention.
Career Paths

Read articles by historians about their career paths in Perspectives on History.

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Where Historians Work

Where Historians Work is an interactive, online database that catalogs the career outcomes of historians who earned PhDs at universities in the United States from 2004 to 2017.

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Academic Department Resources

History department chairs are on the front lines of the discipline, defending historians’ work and supporting their professional lives at all stages of their academic careers. The AHA strives to strengthen this work and provide resources and opportunities that make chairs’ work easier and valued.

Discover Historians and History Programs

The online Directory provides for detailed searching of faculty/staff and their field specializations, as well as the ability to do benchmarking comparisons between departments.

The directory contains the titles of over 60,000 dissertations that have been completed or are currently in progress in the United States and Canada since 1873.

Search the AHA Member Directory by name, organization, city, state, and specialization to get contact information for collaboration and community. AHA members only.

Upcoming Opportunities

Community & Careers

The AHA’s Calls for Opportunities Calendar shares upcoming calls for papers, conference proposals, and other activities. Anyone may submit opportunities of interest to historians to the calendar.

Deadline: Dec 8, 2024

Call for Fellowship Applications

Research Fellowships: Open Rank

Deadline: Feb 28, 2025

Call for Fellowship Applications

2025 E. Geoffrey and Elizabeth Thayer Verney Fellowship