History Careers

The AHA's Careers for Historians initiative is working to better prepare graduate students and early-career historians for a range of career options, within and beyond the academy. Check out a range of resources on how to explore possible career paths during and after graduate school.

This guide from the AHA describes the many professional opportunities available to students of history.

This article from the AHA offers career path advice for students who earn a bachelor’s degree in history.

Have questions about research standards, from oral history, to digital scholarship, to plagiarism? The American Historical Association has assembled a range of articles, standards and reports that can guide historical researchers at all levels.

From acceptance and course work to the dissertation defense and future employment, the AHA shares resources to guide graduate students on their doctoral journey.

To promote fairness within university history departments, the AHA has assembled reports and best practices based on the experiences of and research from a range of institutions.

To advance the status of women in the historical profession, the AHA has conducted and published a range of articles and reports on policies that impact gender fairness and the status of women in the history workplace.

Digital technologies have expanded the reach of scholarship in the way scholars communicate their research to an audience and present findings, as well as influence the questions they ask in planning a research project. The AHA has organized resources on getting started in digital history, articles on doing digital history and examples of digital history projects.