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academic job market

  • 2/7/2021

    History (and Historians) Need a New Deal

    by Shannan Clark

    Only a program of direct public employment for historians, along with other academics, can lead to a vibrant future for the discipline in which access to careers is expanded, with greater diversity and equity.  The history of the WPA cultural projects shows us the way.

  • SOURCE: Washington Monthly
    12/3/2020

    The PhD Glut and What to Do About It

    by Jonathan Zimmerman

    A professor of education history addresses a recent book on career diversity for PhD students and questions whether academic departments are prepared to revamp their curricula to prepare students for careers outside academia. 

  • SOURCE: American Historical Association
    9/30/2020

    Webinar: Make the Most of Your Postdoc (10/8/2020)

    Join a panel of historians on October 8 for a discussion of the increasingly common postdoctoral fellowship and how to make the best use of it for professional and career development in and out of academe. 

  • SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
    9/23/2020

    Why I Quit Academe for a Coding Boot Camp

    by Zeb Larson

    Delusions about the availability of "alt-ac" jobs for new humanities PhDs are stopping graduate students from making informed career choices and covering up the academic profession's failures to recognize and act on crisis. 

  • 8-5-13

    Jennifer Polk: "Recent PhDs Need to Have Their Confidence Boosted"

    by David Austin Walsh

    The academc job market remains in the doldrums. Recent PhDs continue to outstrip new positions, and the adjunctification of higher ed. in general -- and historians in particular -- continues unabated. It's not surprising, then, that a growing contingent of recent PhDs are standing athwart academic history yelling 'stop!'