2013 Annual Meeting: Session 27: The Entrepreneurial Historian

At the American Historical Association's 127th Annual Meeting in New Orleans. As the academic job market has tightened and as federal, state, and local budgets have been slashed, it has become increasingly clear that historians must re-assess their approach to and understanding of the job market. In other words, historians must start to look beyond "Plan B." This panel discusses the concept of for-profit history, and explores ways in which historians can expand their career options beyond academe. This roundtable discussion includes Kristen E. Gwinn-Becker (HistoryIT), Alexandra M. Lord (Ultimate History Project ), Jennifer Stevens (Stevens Historical Research and Boise State University), Brian W. Martin (History Associates Inc.), Michelle McClellan (University of Michigan), and Patrick Moore (University of West Florida and Next Exit History).

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