I’ve been recently informed about some really great professional development resources put together by the AASLH’s Professional Development committee that you’ll want to check out.
Basic overview is here: Careers for History Professionals
There’s a good (though short) bibliography, some good thoughtful information about public history education, and some questions to consider about your career path.
They also link to a great white paper called Museum Careers: Fit, Readiness, and Development. Presumably since you’re part of the Tufts community you already have an idea about the fit – but this paper does a good idea of presenting the realities of the museum job world and making suggestions about a way forward. It’s also current to early 2011, so apropos for the current economic climate.
September 2, 2011 at 1:04 pm
Thanks for sending folks our way Amanda! Also wanted to let you and your peers know about our 3rd annual Online Conference. Details are here: http://bit.ly/qgrjbd
September 7, 2011 at 12:03 pm
Thanks for the heads up! I’m working with the Tufts graduate school office right now to make the conference available to the whole community and I’ll make sure I do a special post when I get the results of that.