Making History Work

AHA-Mellon Career Diversity for Historians pilot program at the University of Chicago.

[Making History Work @MakingHistWork]

@UChicagoHistory at work! Their "Voices after Matthew" exhibit opens tomorrow from 6-9pm at the Haitian American Museum #AHACareerDiversity

[Making History Work @MakingHistWork]

Still time for History PhDs to sign up for the History Presentation Extravaganza at U of C!

When: Thurs, June 6, 2-4pm
What: 5 min research presentations for general audiences

Prizes will be offered!

#ahacareerdiversity

[Jim Grossman @JimGrossmanAHA]

Lindsey Martin asks historians to imagine "a future where a tenure-track position is no longer the standard by which alumni are deemed successes or their historical training put to worthy use." "Value the labor and the expertise of all historians." https://t.co/Gsken9rZ2t

[Amanda Irene Seligman @AmandaISeligman]

So, #AHACareerDiversity is controversial?

I’m trying to keep myself upright until classes end next week.

I’m too swamped to write everything I want to about this topic. But here’s my story of how Career Diversity freed me from the golden handcuffs. [1/23]

[American Historical Association @AHAhistorians]

"The goal is not to shunt Ph.D.s into gloomy nonacademic careers, but rather to prepare the next generation of historians to argue forcefully for the value of history," says @JimGrossmanAHA in @chronicle: https://t.co/RyyM8BGxqq

[Jim Grossman @JimGrossmanAHA]

"To advocate better conditions for historians employed as contingent labor and to envision a broad and diverse landscape of employment for historians are complementary, not mutually exclusive, endeavors." #EverythinghasaHistory https://t.co/BlwFLKH20O

[Making History Work @MakingHistWork]

Terrific workshop with Marya Hannun on writing for popular media today!
3 takeaways:
1) Do research! Know your publication
2) Pitch! Editors want people with expertise and ideas
3) Don't be afraid to work w/ editor and work w/ them through process
@mrhannun #AHACareerDiversity

[Making History Work @MakingHistWork]

TODAY! "Beyond Peer Review: A Crash Course for Writing in Popular Media" with Georgetown PhD @mrhannun

Thrilled to kick-off our first "Writing Non-Academic Audiences" workshop! #AHACareerDiversity

[Bard Prison Initiative @BPIBard]

We are hiring! BPI is excited to announce several full-time positions in academics and administration. Candidates should have PhD or terminal degree, experience teaching at college level, & admin leadership capacity. Apply here: https://t.co/S1SCvpEa8d #altac #postac #phdjobs

[Rob Townsend (also @rbtownsend.bsky.social) @rbthisted]

"From 1995 to 2015, there have been 3.3 new doctorate recipients for every new tenure-track hire by a four-year institution"

[Making History Work @MakingHistWork]

Kicking off a new Making History Work workshop: Text Mining in R with Matthew Jockers!

[Making History Work @MakingHistWork]

Exciting new workshop this week! Text Mining with Matthew Jockers. Read more about his work here: https://t.co/dfeUYv2nYO

Stay tuned for next week's workshop: Journalistic writing with @mrhannun !

[Making History Work @MakingHistWork]

The new series of Making History Work Career Diversity events starts today! Kicking off the Computational Skills workshop series with an Intro to Digital Humanities today at noon!

[Los Angeles Review of Books @LAReviewofBooks]

#FutureofPublishing | We're now accepting applications for our Summer 2019 LARB/@USC Publishing Workshop. This year, Fellows will choose between the residential Workshop & the nonresidential Project Incubator, or they can do both. @beenepon @Sarah_LaBrie https://t.co/bVCQhjzHTW

[Jim Grossman @JimGrossmanAHA]

PhD historian working an in immigration-related NGO: "I felt an urgency to use what I knew about the past to influence the present." #AHACareerDiversity https://t.co/RdGZLpnURz

[Natalie Lundsteen @NLundsteen]

A two-year postdoc role for a social scientist at the Council of Graduate Schools working on 'Understanding PhD Career Pathways': https://t.co/BWggpr1R2r

[Rob Townsend (also @rbtownsend.bsky.social) @rbthisted]

Martin: "It's not a question of if students' loyalties break, but when." Cites survey data that shows a sharp drop in expectations of R1 jobs by the third year. #AHA19 #s26

[Rob Townsend (also @rbtownsend.bsky.social) @rbthisted]

Martin: "You will never stop being a historian [after the PhD], no matter how hard you try." #AHA19 #s26

[Jordan M. Reed @jordanreed14]

To me this is the core question hanging over the discussion at #AHA19 #s4: What, precisely, differentiates these internships for graduate students from the quintessential internship experience thousands of undergraduate do each year? #AHACareerDiversity