Professional & Career Resources
Advance Your Career
As the leading professional association for historians in the United States, the AHA serves as a hub for information on jobs, careers, and employment in the historical discipline. The AHA provides guidance, information, and job listings for historians in all stages of their careers.
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.
Career Paths
Read articles by historians about their career paths in Perspectives on History.
Reviewers in Digital History
The AHA can connect you to digital historians who can assist with tenure and promotion cases that involve review of digital history projects. Contact Alexandra Levy, director of communications & public affairs, for assistance finding an appropriate reviewer.
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.
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.
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 Communities
Members can communicate and collaborate with other historians in this online networking platform.
Resources for the Discipline
Guidance & Leadership
The AHA provides leadership for the discipline and promotes the critical role of historical thinking in public life. The Association defends academic freedom, develops professional standards, supports innovative scholarship and teaching, and helps to sustain and enhance the work of historians.
Standards & Guidelines for the Discipline
The AHA has developed a series of best practices for excellence in professional behavior, research, and teaching.
Digital History Resources
The AHA offers resources on getting started in digital history, articles on doing digital history, and projects of interest.
2025 Department Chairs’ Workshop
The 2025 Department Chairs’ Workshop will be held online from June 23–24. Programing will include full group and facilitated breakout discussions, as well as a Q&A session with lobbyists.
Data on the Historical Discipline
Data on the Historical Discipline
The AHA collects and shares data on topics ranging from employment, to public engagement with history, to the use of educational resources in the classroom, and more.
AHA Surveys: Historians Teaching Off the Tenure Track
The AHA's Surveys: Historians Teaching Off the Tenure Track are now closed to responses. The AHA will share a report with the results of the surveys later in 2025.
Discover Historians and History Programs
AHA Affiliates, Coalitions, & Member News
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.
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.
Awards & Grants
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.
Awards for Publications
These prizes honor exceptional books, articles, films, and digital works on a wide range of historical topics.
Awards for Scholarly and Professional Distinction
These awards recognize individuals and groups who have made distinguished contributions to the discipline of history.
Upcoming Opportunities
Calls for Opportunities Calendar
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.
