• 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

• 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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