History department receives Career Diversity Implementation Grants
The American Historical Association (AHA) is pleased to announce the recipients of Career Diversity Implementation Grants, the third phase of the Career Diversity for Historians initiative. Funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and administered by the AHA, these grants will support 20 history departments as they integrate broad-based professional development into their department's culture and doctoral curriculum. The recipients, selected from the 36 departments who participated in the AHA's year-long Career Diversity Faculty Institutes, represent institutions of varying sizes, locations and institutional cultures.
Participating departments will receive funding to support two years of programming as well as a Career Diversity Fellow a PhD candidate from the department who will collaborate with a faculty team to better prepare history PhDs for careers inside and beyond the academy. The faculty team and the Fellow will work together to rethink the structure and purpose of their doctoral program by developing workshops, lectures and networking events, creating graduate level internships and instituting curricular changes designed to prepare students to teach in diverse environments, produce important historical scholarship and succeed in multiple career paths.
The Fellows will be announced in late spring. The Fellows and a member of each department's faculty team will attend an orientation in Washington, DC, in June, 2018.
Recipients of the 2018-2020 career diversity implementation grants
Brown University
Georgetown University
Georgia State University
Iowa State University
Loyola University, Chicago
Michigan State University
Texas A&M University
University at Buffalo
University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Davis
University of California, Irvine
University of Illinois, Chicago
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
University of Michigan
University of Missouri, Kansas City
University of Texas, Austin
University of Texas, El Paso
University of Utah
Wayne State University
West Virginia University
For more information about the Career Diversity Grants, contact the project director, Emily Swafford, AHA manager of academic affairs, at eswafford@historians.org or Dylan Ruediger, coordinator, Career Diversity and institutional research, at druediger@historians.org.
Established in 2014, the AHA's Career Diversity for Historians initiative is working to better prepare graduate students and early-career historians for a range of career options, within and beyond the academy. With generous funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the AHA and three dozen departments from around the country are working to explore the culture and practice of graduate education to better support the changing needs of PhD students.
The American Historical Association is the largest professional organization serving historians in all fields and all professions. Founded in 1884 and chartered by Congress in 1889, the AHA is a trusted voice for history education, the professional work of historians, and the critical role of historical thinking in public life.