The AHA Jobs Report

This year’s AHA Jobs Report comes as what we know about “the market” is evolving. Most readers will want to know how many tenure-track assistant professorships were posted last year, but the increasing number of nonacademic jobs for history PhDs has prompted the AHA to ask new questions: What is a job and where do historians find them? We can no longer look only in the light; we have to seek out what’s in the shadows.

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Staff

Allison Miller, editor
Kritika Agarwal, associate editor, publications
Elyse Martin, associate editor, web content and social media
Zoë Jackson, editorial assistant
Liz Townsend, coordinator, data administration and integrity

Other Articles

March 19, 2018

From the National History Center, Perspectives Daily

The National History Center’s New Teaching Decolonization Resource Collection
President Roosevelt signing the GI Bill with a dozen other men standing around him

March 1, 2018

From the National History Center, Perspectives Daily

How the Feds Reshaped Higher Education
Spotlight on a dark background

March 28, 2018

Member Spotlight, Perspectives Daily

AHA Member Spotlight: Kelly King-O’Brien
Spotlight on a dark background

March 21, 2018

Member Spotlight, Perspectives Daily

AHA Member Spotlight: Jayanta Sengupta
Spotlight on a dark background

March 15, 2018

Member Spotlight, Perspectives Daily

AHA Member Spotlight: Elizabeth Manley
Spotlight on a dark background

March 6, 2018

Member Spotlight, Perspectives Daily

AHA Member Spotlight: Phil Rubio
Pen with paper and envelopes

March 9, 2018

Letters to the Editor

On the December 2017 Townhouse Notes and Writing
Pen with paper and envelopes

March 9, 2018

Letters to the Editor

On the December 2017 Townhouse Notes and Grad School
Pen with paper and envelopes

March 9, 2018

Letters to the Editor

On “In England’s Dreaming”
Light pink circles across pink and blue background

March 8, 2018

In Memoriam

Suzanne Miers Oliver (1922–2016)

News

A protest with protestors carrying the signs "Honor Treaty," "Stand No DAPL"

March 9, 2018

News

“For the Future”
Teaching with #dighist logo

March 29, 2018

AHA Online, Perspectives Daily

Food in the West
Two baseball players, one holding a batt, on an open field in front of an apartment building

March 26, 2018

News, Perspectives Daily

Swinging in the Sun
Metal statues of a person looking up to the sky with their hand raised with 7 other statues in the background

March 14, 2018

News, Perspectives Daily

High School Student Activism
Thin lines of light in green, blue, and yellow in a curved shape against the night sky.

March 12, 2018

News, Perspectives Daily

Clio: Connecting Place with the Past
The Graduate in tan and orange writing

March 5, 2018

Perspectives Daily, The Graduate

Letter to a Prospective History Graduate Student