Thursday, October 27 2016, 12:30pm 101 LeConte Hall Half of all history Ph.D's end up in tenured or tenure-track positions in colleges and universities. Only one-third of those are in research universities. Are our Ph.D programs therefore preparing most graduate students for careers they are unlikely to have? Except for faculty at a few elite research universities, historians no longer spend their professional lives just writing books and articles, lecturing in the style of the “50 minute essay,” conducting seminars, and mentoring advanced students. Moreover, one-fourth of our Ph.D. recipients end up in positions outside the realm of college and university teaching. How do we move beyond a single career path model without creating separate tracks in graduate school or lengthening time to degree? Jim Grossman, executive director of the American Historical Association will discuss the AHA's "Career Diversity for Historians" initiative, which explores whether and how graduate preparation in history can adapt to this changing landscape.
