Welcome Back, Historians!
Here we are once again at the start of a new year. Although we do academic advising in the department in the spring, it's worth starting to think about your future career even before we all get caught up in the hamster-wheel of the academic year. Students often wonder: "what can I do with a history degree?" Even though we all love history here, many students believe that a history degree just won't lead to a job.
Don't worry: your prospects are better than you think. The American Historical Association has a helpful overview of what you can do with a history degree and the Canadian Historical Association provides career advice for graduate students. For a more tangible idea of what having a history degree means, see The Guardian for a breakdown of what U.K. history graduates did. Indeed, not only do we know that American graduates with a B.A. in History earned more over a lifetime than other humanities graduates, but it turns out that "historian" has been listed as one of the top ten jobs!
