• Remote Reflections: Being a Graduate Teaching Assistant during the Pandemic

  Perspectives Daily

  Victoria Funk | Aug 28, 2020

  Graduate teaching assistants, not quite students and not yet faculty, face unique challenges during COVID-19.
• Gains and Losses

  Perspectives Daily

  Olivia M. Hagedorn | Apr 30, 2019

  Conversations about pursuing nonacademic careers often center on what is lost. But what if we shift the focus on what is gained?
• The Making of the Graduate Working Class

  Perspectives Daily

  Jeff Schuhrke | Jan 29, 2019

  An AHA19 panel brought together graduate activists for a discussion on challenges to unionization in universities.
• Searching for Jobs outside the Academy?

  Perspectives Daily

  Christina Copland | Jul 30, 2018

  There’s no one, direct route to getting a nonacademic job.

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• Cultivating Mentoring Relationships in Grad School

  Sarah Mellors | Jun 14, 2018

  Students have more agency than they realize when it comes to getting the mentoring they need in grad school.
• Making Historians in the Archive

  Christina Copland | May 14, 2018

  Archival research, which often requires visiting depositories around the globe, plays a major role in shaping our identity as historians....
• Spring Cleaning Tip #1

  Christina Copland | Apr 9, 2018

  Success in academia, writes Christina Copland, is often unrelated to the merits of one's scholarship. Yet, the meritocracy myth encourages graduate students to think otherwise.
• Letter to a Prospective History Graduate Student

  Christina Copland | Mar 5, 2018

  Christina Copland advises prospective history graduate students to think carefully about what they can do from day one to get...
• The Graduate

  Christina Copland | Feb 5, 2018

  Christina Copland introduces The Graduate, a new series on AHA Today providing space for a productive dialogue about graduate student life.