Reminder to join the conversation “Where Historians Work: A View from Early America”

February 8, 2017 By Katy Lasdow in Academia, Public History, Where Historians Work Tags: AHA, Alternate careers, Job Market, Opinion, Public History Leave a comment

Do you hold a PhD in early American history/literature/architectural history/art history/etc. or a related field, and have you chosen a career outside of the professoriate? The Junto wants to hear from you! There’s still time to participate in our conversation, “Where Historians Work: A View from Early America.”

Leave your stories in the comments of this post. Or, if you would prefer a less public forum, you may email The Junto (thejuntoblog@gmail.com) with the subject line “Career Diversity.” Please post comments or email by Friday, February 17. Continue reading →

Where Historians Work: A View from Early America

February 2, 2017 By Katy Lasdow in Academia, Public History Tags: advice, AHA, Alternate careers, Database, Job Market, Opinion, Public History, Technology 1 Comment

Recently the American Historical Association published Where Historians Work: An Interactive Database of History PhD Career Outcomes, “the only interactive, discipline-specific, and cross-institutional database of career outcomes for PhDs.” Using data collected from AHA directories and on the web, “Where Historians Work” presents a robust statistical overview of the varied employment sought by History PhDs from more than 30 degree-granting intuitions. For those historians who have long held positions outside of the academy, the database, part of the AHA’s broader Career Diversity for Historians initiative, is a welcome acknowledgement of what many have known anecdotally for years: History PhDs can—and do!—work in an array of fields.

Continue reading →

Early America at AHA 2016

January 7, 2016 By Joseph M. Adelman in Conferences Tags: AHA, American Historical Association, Conference 1 Comment

It’s hard to believe that this is our fourth annual roundup of panels and presentations about early America and the Atlantic World at the annual meeting of the American Historical Association. Convening this year in Atlanta beginning today (January 7) and running through January 10, the program this year offers a theme of “Global Migrations: Empires, Nations, and Neighbors.”

People go to the AHA for many reasons, and we wish all of you a good conference experience (most especially those of you interviewing for jobs). As we have for the past few years, below you’ll find a guide to many of the panels that include our colleagues and readers who work on topics related to early America and the Atlantic world. We’ve done our best to capture as many panels of interest to our readership, in the spirit of “vast Early America,” as Omohundro Institute Director Karin Wulf put it earlier this week. But we also surely missed a few panels of interest, so please feel free to suggest other possibilities in the comments.

With that said, scroll down for a day-by-day rundown, with links to the program description for each panel. (You can also browse the full program, of course.)

Continue reading →

The Week in Early American History

June 28, 2015 By Jessica Parr in Academia, Administrative, The Week in Early American History Tags: 18th Century, 19th Century, African-American history, AHA, Berkshire Conference of Women Historians, Charleston Shooting, Digital History, OAH, Public History, religious history, Slavery Leave a comment

TWEAH Welcome to another edition of This Week in American History. It has been a busy, yet troubling two weeks.

We would like to begin by offering our condolences to the family, friends, and colleagues of Christopher Schmidt-Nowara, of Tufts University. Dr. Schmidt-Nowara died suddenly in Paris on June 27th. Continue reading →

This Week in Early American History

April 5, 2015 By Jessica Parr in The Week in Early American History Tags: 19th Century, academia, AHA, American Revolution, Ben Franklin's World, Constitution, Danielle Allen, Historiann, Liz Covart, Methodology, Michael Hattem, pedagogy, The JuntoCast, This Week in Early American History Leave a comment

TWEAH Welcome to another edition of This Week in Early American History! We wish a safe and healthy holiday to those who are observing Easter this weekend, and a Chag Kasher V’Sameach to those who are celebrating Passover. Now, on to the links….

Continue reading →

The Week in Early American History

January 4, 2015 By Jessica Parr in Academia, Conferences, Opinion, Public History, The Week in Early American History Tags: 18th Century, 19th Century, academia, AHA, American Revolution, conferences, Digital History, Early Republic, George Washington, historiography, pedagogy, race, Thomas Jefferson Leave a comment

TWEAH Happy 2015 to our Junto readers! Continue reading →

The Junto Guide to Early America at #AHA2015

January 2, 2015 By Joseph M. Adelman in Conferences Tags: academia, AHA, American Historical Association, Atlantic History, Caribbean, Digital History, Gender, Latin America, Native Americans, pedagogy, religion, Slavery 2 Comments

/home/wpcom/public_html/wp-content/blogs.dir/4d8/41615394/files/2014/12/img_0422.png Happy New Year from all of us at The Junto! We hope you had a restful and enjoyable holiday break. For historians, the turn of the calendar to 2015 means that many of us are en route to the AHA Annual Meeting in New York City. Having grown up in the area, I’d like to welcome you all to New York, where the bagels and pizza are really just better, and we stand “on line” for coffee, not “in line.”

Continue reading →

The Week in Early American History

March 24, 2014 By Tom Cutterham in The Week in Early American History Tags: academia, AHA, George Washington, Jane Kamensky, John Demos, Publishing Leave a comment

This is your late-running Week in Early American History service. Thanks for waiting! Continue reading →

The Generation Game

February 7, 2014 By Ken Owen in Academia, Commentary, Digital History Tags: academia, Ad Hoc Committee on Professional Evaluation of Digital Scholarship by Historians, AHA, Digital History, Publishing 5 Comments

The AHA recently announced the formation of an ad hoc committee to produce standard guidelines for evaluating digital scholarship. It is hoped that the guidelines will allow professional recognition of new scholarship in a way that can become codified within the tenure process. The committee is a veritable who’s who of digital humanities worthies—all with an excellent track record of traditional peer-reviewed scholarship and engagement with a variety of digital media. When this committee speaks, it will command attention.

This is an important step forward for the profession; having a rigorous set of guidelines for evaluation will serve as an important starting point for encouraging recalcitrant colleagues and administrators to take digital scholarship seriously. But there is one thing that is also notable about the committee—not to put too fine a point on it, it is rather old. All the scholars are safely tenured. Where are the voices of the new generation, of the digital natives? Continue reading →

The Week in Early American History

January 12, 2014 By Ken Owen in The Week in Early American History Tags: AHA, Benjamin Franklin, C-SPAN, Chickasaw, Eric Foner, MOOCs, Peter Onuf, television, USS Monitor 3 Comments

TWEAH Are you looking for a break from a busy weekend of watching the NFL playoffs? Or maybe you need some light relief while finishing up your syllabi for the new semester? Never fear, The Week in Early American History is here!