Job Markets
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The Troubled Academic Job Market for History
Robert B. Townsend and Julia Brookins | Feb 5, 2016
The academic job market in history remains quite challenging for recent PhDs, and evidence from the ... -
Charm School, from Application to Interview to Campus Visit
Vicki L. Ruiz | Oct 1, 2015
As leaves begin to turn their autumn hues, aspiring professors and their mentors turn their thoughts... -
The AHA Taxonomy Project, Part 2: The Members Speak, and the President Thanks Them
Jan Goldstein | Dec 1, 2014
Photo by Bill SewellIn my September column, graced with a James Gillray cartoon of Napoleon and Pitt... -
Career Diversity for Historians: Phase II Kickoff in DC
Emily Swafford | Nov 1, 2014
The AHA launched the second phase of the Career Diversity for Historians initiative with a weeklong ... -
History as Preparation for a Career in Business
Jack Cumming | Nov 1, 2014
My career illustrates an opportunity that historians and humanists often overlook by leaving the pre... -
Retirement as a Stage in the Academic Life Cycle
Jan Goldstein | Oct 1, 2014
Photo by Bill SewellW hen I talk to French and German colleagues who belong to my generational cohor... -
Launching Pad—PhD, Target—TBD
Robert Oxnam | Oct 1, 2014
In the late 1960s, when I was wavering about my Yale doctoral studies in Chinese history, my mentor,... -
The Academic Job Market's Jagged Line: Number of Ads Placed Drops for Second Year
Allen Mikaelian | Sep 2, 2014
The number of positions advertised with the American Historical Association during academic year 201... -
Tuning History in Utah
Daniel J. McInerney | Apr 1, 2014
In February 2011, as the Utah state legislature debated funding for higher education, a Senate leade... -
A Slice of American Academic Life, Suzhou-Style
Jan Goldstein | Mar 1, 2014
In situations of protracted crisis—and I would place the current academic job market in that categor...
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