Additional Career Development Resources for Humanities and Social Sciences Ph.D.s

Academic Job Resources

Academic360.com
A meta-collection of Internet resources that have been gathered for the academic job hunter. It includes links to faculty, staff, and administrative announcements and is not restricted to teaching positions.

Academic Web Logs
from the Chronicle of Higher Education
All feature occasional discussions about academic life, careers, and the job market.

Invisible Adjunct
Famous Blog "From the Margins of Academe."  Author has ceased writing, but archives are still posted.

Nonacademic Job Resources

Nonacademic Careers for Ph.D.s Columns (Chronicle of Higher Eduction)

BeyondAcademe
(web site tailored to historians moving out of academia)

Career Alternatives for Art Historians

"Four Steps to Succeeding Outside the Ivory Tower"
Article from Salon

National Council on Public History

Re-Envisioning the PhD Project, University of Washington

Sellout: A Resource for PhDs Considering Careers Beyond the University

USA Jobs (all federal government jobs listed here)

"The View from Outside the Ivory Tower" by Alexandra Lord (From the American Historical Association's Perspectives magazine)

Other Resources

National Coalition of Independent Scholars

Suggested Reading:
Maggie Debelius and Susan Elizabeth Basalla, So What Are You Going to Do With That?: A Guide for M.A.'s and Ph.D's Seeking Careers Outside the Academy (Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2001).

Chronicle of Education article about the Basalla/Debelius book