SOURCE: AHA Today
1-15-13
tags: AHA, American Historical Association, job market, jobs, Liz Townsend
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1-15-13
Job Searches at the AHA Annual Meeting
Historians in the Newstags: AHA, American Historical Association, job market, jobs, Liz Townsend
Search committees conducted interviews for over 154 positions at the 2013 AHA annual meeting, almost matching last year’s total of 160. The number of searches slipped a bit, which is typical in smaller meeting cities.
For the first time in recent memory, jobs with a European specialization outnumbered those for the United States, 25 to 24 percent. The next highest was Asia, followed by Latin America, and then thematic. These searches, which did not require a specific geographical area, were mostly for public and digital historians. Five percent or less of the searches asked for either African, Middle East, or world history specializations....
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