Monday, September 14, 2009

On-line resources for news of the history profession



If you're interested in working as a history professor in a university, it wouldn't be a bad idea to start keeping up with events in this arena. Here are two useful resources.
InsideHigherEd is a high quality on-line publication that compares well with the esteemed [and expensive] Chronicle of Higher Education. You can get the Chronicle on campus through the UTA databases. But I think Inside is worth subscribing to via a blog reader. For example, they're running an article today on the way that the economy has affected university history departments.

Here's an editorial from last week on the plight of adjunct instructors.

InsideHigherEd got its information on historians from the American Historical Association. If you don't know it, the AHA is the major professional organization for all kinds of historians, and it puts out a monthly magazine, Perspectives on History, as well as the venerable American Historical Review, which you can get through JSTOR.
Perspectives often has good articles on graduate school, job hunting, teaching, history salaries, technology and it is available on-line. It's a good idea to get in the habit of looking at it -- and I'd encourage you to think about joining the AHA in the future.

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