Submitted April 23, 2008, 10:13 PM
What is your status with the AHA?
member for less than 5 years
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To how many scholarly associations do you pay membership dues?
What is your blogging status?
Have you interviewed (either as interviewer or interviewee) at the AHA convention?
What is your experience with job search committees?
What is your age?
What is your gender?
What is your race or ethnicity?
What is the highest degree you have obtained?
If applicable, how many years have you spent teaching history?
If applicable, what is your academic rank or status?
What is your experience with history doctoral programs?
currently or formerly a doctoral student but have never taught or advised doctoral students
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For whom or what do you work?
What is your field/subject/discipline?
What is your geographical area of historical specialization?
The AHA leads the historical profession.
The AHA does more advocacy for the historical profession than any other organization.
The AHA does a good job of defining ethical and professional standards.
The AHA does a good job of disseminating information about best practices in the field of history.
The AHA does enough to preserve primary sources for historical research.
neither agree nor disagree
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The AHA does a good job of publicizing historical research.
The AHA does a good job of revising its Constitution and Bylaws.
neither agree nor disagree
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The AHA Council is doing a good job.
neither agree nor disagree
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The AHA's Professional Division is doing a good job.
neither agree nor disagree
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The American Historical Review is the best journal in the field of history.
neither agree nor disagree
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The Perspectives magazine provides excellent news about the historical profession.
The AHA does a good job of providing information about the various careers available to historians.
The AHA publishes some great pamphlets.
The AHA awards plenty of prizes, fellowships, and awards.
The AHA publishes an excellent guide to funding sources for historians.
The AHA has put together an incredibly useful web site.
The AHA has become too big.
The AHA should serve as an umbrella organization/society for historians.
Joining the AHA will help your career.
The AHA has the power to reform the Job Market.
The AHA has little to no power.
neither agree nor disagree
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The AHA does not have enough influence to help historians obtain higher salaries through collective bargaining.
The AHA would never advocate collective bargaining because the tenured professors in the AHA oppose unions for their graduate students.
Historians with tenure should pay the most for AHA membership and conference registration.
The AHA should prohibit job interviewing at its annual conventions, because this practice is making things worse, not better, for job seekers.
Departments that refuse to follow AHA guidelines about the interview and hiring process should be blacklisted from the Job Register and refused ad space in Perspectives.
After the close of its convention, the AHA should send out an e-mail to everyone who registered for the conference or who reserved a room in one of the conference hotels, and ask them to fill out a brief survey about their experience with the job market that year.
Graduate students in history should unite and become a voting bloc within the AHA.
The AHA cannot prevent departments from booking a hotel room at the AHA convention and holding interviews that are not reported to the Job Register.
The AHA could easily survey history departments and find out how many applications they received for each of their job searches, whether it was only 25 or more than 200, since these departments already have to report the numbers to their human resources departments and the EEOC.
As history faculty retire, the AHA should lobby their departments to search for replacements in American or European history, so that the openings for history faculty will match the specializations of the majority of recent history PhDs.
The AHA should ask history doctoral programs to provide full disclosure of their attrition rate, placement rate, years to degree, and information about where their students end up working after graduation on their departmental web site.
The AHA should make the pursuit of social justice part of its mission statement.
The AHA is doing all that it can to increase the numbers of African American, Hispanic, and Native American students in history doctoral programs.
The AHA should spend its money on a new headquarters.
The AHA should create a major endowment that will secure its financial future.
Now that we have entered the digital age, where e-mails have replaced letters and are easily deleted by government officials, the AHA should work more closely with archivists to meet the new challenges of preserving the historical record.
The AHA should find and survey history PhDs in the "backlog" so that we will have better a statistical picture of everyone who is competing for tenure track jobs in history.
The AHA should become more proactive in its collection of data about the historical profession.
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