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The AHA's job listings include ads for public history positions.

A range of other resources listing job opportunities outside the academy are available:

Museums: the American Association of Museums, Job HQ .

Historical societies, small museums, and other history organizations: the American Association for State and Local History, Career Center .

Federal government: Office of Personnel Management . This web site lists all available federal jobs, so job seekers will have to do a subject search to find relevant listings. Many (but not all) history positions are classified under the "GS-170 Historian" job classification. Also check the web sites of the federal agencies that hire historians, including the National Park Service , the Department of State Office of the Historian , and the Senate Historical Office .  The Society for History in the Federal Government is a valuable resource for information and employment listings.

State and local government: check the web sites of individual states and cities. A list of links can be found at http://www.statelocalgov.net/50states-jobs.cfm

Archives: Society of American Archivists, Online Career Center .

Libraries: The Western European Studies Section (WESS) of the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) provides listings for opportunities in academic or research libraries .

Consulting: Large historical consulting firms include History Associates , The History Factory , and Historical Research Associates .

The National Council on Public History maintains a searchable job listing.

The Chronicle of Higher Education 's Vitae career hub includes a category for "jobs outside academe."

Relevant H-Net lists, particularly H-Public and H-Museum, also post position announcements.

General Information about Working in Public History

The AHA offers a free, premium-content subscription to Versatile PhD as a member benefit. Versatile PhD is a confidential web-based resource that aims to prepare PhDs and ABDs for careers outside academia. It works to identify and demystify nonacademic careers, and reveal interesting professions that require the skills historians cultivated (or are currently cultivating) in graduate school. To start using your free premium-content subscription to Versatile PhD, log into member services on the AHA website. To learn more about this service, visit Versatile PhD .

Careers for Students of History , a joint publication of the AHA, the NCPH, and the faculty and students of the Public History Program at the University of South Carolina, provides an overview of career options for professional historians. You may order the print edition , or consult the online version .

Beyond Academe offers history PhDs information about employment opportunities outside the academy.

The Chronicle of Higher Education regularly publishes first-person articles by PhDs employed or seeking employment outside academe.

Public History: Essays from the Field , James B. Gardner and Peter S. Lapaglia, eds. (2004), provides a useful introduction to the field.

Directories maintained by professional associations can give you an idea of the range of employment opportunities open to the professional historian. Useful sources include the Directory of Federal Historical Programs and Activities compiled by the Society for History in the Federal Government, the Directory of Historical Consultants maintained by the National Council on Public History, and the American Association for State and Local History's Directory of Historical Organizations in the United States and Canada . The AHA's Directory of History Departments, Historical Organizations, and Historians is another valuable resource.

CREEES Professional Resources Forum

Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies at The University of Texas at Austin

Academic Job: Postdoctoral research positions, HSE (Moscow)

Deadline to apply: february 15, 2018, the job involves:.

• Working under the supervision of Oleg Budnitskii, the Center’s Director, and Michael David-Fox, the Academic advisor at the International Center for the History and Sociology of World War II and Its Consequences
• Participants are encouraged to pursue their own research that is thematically related to the Center’s research project on the history of World War II and wartime Stalinism, as well as on other topics dealing with Soviet history and culture more broadly
• Writing research papers for international peer-reviewed journals
• Providing consultations on writing scholarly papers in English to Russian colleagues and students
• Participation in organization of the events and other contribution to the Center’s development
• Public presentations of candidate’s own research to the researchers in the field and the broader academic community
• Some teaching is encouraged, though not required.

Requirements:

• PhD from an international research university in the field of Soviet or Modern European History or other related fields,
• Publication record in English or potential for producing high-quality research publications,
• Ability to work in a team,
• Fluent English

General conditions for Post-Doctoral Research positions can be found  here . Appointments will be normally made for one year. They assume internationally competitive compensation and other benefits including medical insurance.

A CV and research statement should be submitted via  online application form and two letters of recommendation should be submitted be the referees directly to [email protected] by February 15, 2018. Please note that direct applications to the hiring laboratory may not be reviewed.