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
Over 125 history-oriented organizations are affiliated with the AHA, representing a broad network of organizations promoting collaboration and communication across the history community.
Cross-disciplinary coalitions that provide greater access to networks, leadership, and resources that support the AHA’s mission.
To recognize our talented and eclectic membership, the AHA features a regular Member Spotlight series.
AHA Communities
Members can communicate and collaborate with other historians in this online networking platform.
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
Our Career Contacts program arranges informational interviews between current PhD and history PhDs who have built careers beyond the professoriate.
Follow the AHA on social media platforms to stay up-to-date with our latest news and activities.
AHA Career Contacts at the Annual Meeting
Now called AHA Career Contacts at the Annual Meeting, the AHA 11th annual career event will take place on Sunday, January 5, 2025, from 12:30–3 p.m. Historians from a variety of fields—government agencies, military, nonprofits, businesses, colleges and universities, presses, independent scholars, K–12—will speak with students and job candidates about the path to becoming a historian.
Professional & Career Resources
Standards & Guidelines for the Discipline
The AHA has developed a series of best practices for excellence in professional behavior, research, and teaching.
Career Paths
Read articles by historians about their career paths in Perspectives on History.
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.
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
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.
