Annual Department Chairs’ Workshop

Since 2018, the AHA has offered an in-person workshop for history department chairs each summer. This interactive two-day workshop provides a productive space for new and experienced chairs to hold thoughtful discussions and share insights about the issues and challenges facing historians and history departments. The workshop is an opportunity for chairs to share resources, learn from one another, and build a cohort The workshop is an opportunity for chairs to share resources, learn from one another, and build a cohort to support their professional development,

What past attendees have said:

• "I have been a chair for eight years at two different institutions, and I did not realize how much I would learn just from talking with other chairs at a workshop such as this."
• "This was an extremely useful workshop for me as a new chair. It gave me answers to questions that I didn't even know that I should be asking. It was very timely. I loved learning from other chairs."
• "Experiencing the degree to which almost all of us are 'in the same boat' with regard to departmental culture, issues of equity and climate, funding, enrollments, and institutional mandates was so very affirming for me. I came away with a tremendous esprit de corps and with renewed energy and new ideas to bring home to my department. These pressures can seem so very daunting and the job feel isolating; this workshop defuses those feelings in a very constructive manner."