Employment & Careers
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Feeling Your Way toward a Non-Faculty Job
Courtney Wiersema | Sep 13, 2018
The hardest thing about a non-faculty job search may be the need to forge an identity separate from one’s academic self. -
Townhouse Notes: FAQs about Where Historians Work
Allison Miller | Sep 4, 2018
We’ve got answers to your questions about our careers database. -
The Business of Publishing Concerns Us All
Michael J. McGandy | Sep 4, 2018
Scholarly communication is nothing without university presses. Is there room for a broader conversation about that at the annual meeting? -
Letters of Rec
Suzanne Marchand | Sep 4, 2018
Writing (and reading) these formulaic commendations is a task with few rewards. -
Hierarchy and Needs
James Grossman | Sep 1, 2018
The age of the all-powerful Doktorvater is gone, but his influence still permeates our culture. -
Locked Out
Becky Nicolaides | Aug 6, 2018
How can historians turn out first-rate scholarship without access to commercial databases or university libraries? -
Trash to Treasure
Chelsea Denault | Aug 2, 2018
An interest in the history of trash led this graduate student to a job in sustainability. -
Searching for Jobs outside the Academy?
Christina Copland | Jul 30, 2018
There’s no one, direct route to getting a nonacademic job. -
Teaching Career Diversity through Informational Interviews
Purnima Dhavan | Jul 16, 2018
Informational interviews form the core of Purnima Dhavan's graduate professionalization seminar. -
Every Historian Counts
Emily Swafford and Dylan Ruediger | Jul 9, 2018
We broke down employment trends by gender, field specialization, department, and more. You can too.
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