Job Markets
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Application Agonies
From the President
Mary Lindemann | Feb 14, 2020
How can we make hiring in academia a kinder process? -
Townhouse Notes: Meritocracy and the Job Application Arms Race
From the Editor
Allison Miller | Mar 11, 2019
What’s behind the exceedingly onerous requirements for materials from academic job applicants? -
Townhouse Notes: How Much Longer for the Graph of Doom?
From the Editor
Allison Miller | Mar 9, 2018
Each year a double-line graph comparing the number of new history PhDs with advertised academic jobs appears in Perspectives' Jobs... -
The AHA Jobs Report
Features
Dylan Ruediger | Feb 26, 2018
Each year, the AHA presents an article with information collated from our Career Center advertisements to represent the academic job market for histor...
Most Recent
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Another Tough Year for the Academic Job Market in History
Dylan Ruediger | Nov 16, 2017
Job ads in the AHA Career Center, the leading venue for job advertisements aimed at history PhDs, ha... -
Thinking about Where Historians Work before Graduate School
Sadie Bergen | Aug 7, 2017
Working at the American Historical Association for the past two years has made it impossible to shield myself from the... -
Conflicting Signals in the Academic Job Market for History
Robert B. Townsend and Emily Swafford | Jan 9, 2017
Each year the AHA, as the leading venue for job advertisements for history PhDs, reports data on the... -
Where Do Historians Work? An Interactive Snapshot from new AHA Data
Elizabeth Elliot | Jan 9, 2017
In 2013, the AHA published The Many Careers of History PhDs, a revelatory study on the employment pa... -
Beyond "Roads Scholars": Perspectives from the AHA Committee on Non-Tenure- Track Faculty
Lynn Y. Weiner and Philip Suchma | Apr 12, 2016
The AHA has wrestled with the issue of non-tenure-track faculty for over 20 years, producing several...
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