{"id":21079,"date":"2003-12-01T21:10:27","date_gmt":"2003-12-02T02:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/?post_type=resource&p=21079"},"modified":"2024-10-25T11:06:16","modified_gmt":"2024-10-25T15:06:16","slug":"the-education-of-historians-for-the-twenty-first-century","status":"publish","type":"resource","link":"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/resource\/the-education-of-historians-for-the-twenty-first-century\/","title":{"rendered":"The Education of Historians for the Twenty-first Century"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Thomas Bender, Philip M. Katz, Colin Palmer, and the Committee on Graduate Education of the American Historical Association<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\"\"Contents<\/h3>\n

Committee Members<\/a><\/p>\n

Acknowledgments<\/a><\/p>\n

Introduction<\/a><\/p>\n

Part 1: Report and Recommendations<\/strong><\/p>\n

1.\u00a0We Historians<\/a><\/p>\n

2.\u00a0Necessary Discussions<\/a><\/p>\n

3.\u00a0Recommendations<\/a><\/p>\n

Part 2: Foundations<\/strong><\/p>\n

4.\u00a0The National Shape of Doctoral Education: A Survey of Graduate Programs<\/a><\/p>\n

Appendix A: Consultations with the Discipline<\/a><\/p>\n

Appendix B: List of Respondents to the Graduate Program Survey<\/a><\/p>\n

Appendix C: Survey Instrument<\/a><\/p>\n

Selected Bibliography on Graduate Training and Historians<\/a><\/p>\n

Committee Members<\/h3>\n

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Committee on Graduate Education<\/h4>\n

Colin Palmer, Princeton University, Chair
\nThomas Bender, New York University, Secretary
\nConstance Berman, University of Iowa
\nAllison Blakely, Howard University\/Boston University
\nRam\u00f3n A. Guti\u00e9rrez, University of California at San Diego
\nFiona D. Halloran, University of California at Los Angeles, student representative
\nNadine Hata, El Camino Community College
\nLynn Hunt, University of California at Los Angeles
\nStanley N. Katz, Princeton University
\nTheresa Mah, Bowling Green State University
\nKristin Stapleton, University of Kentucky
\nArnita Jones, American Historical Association, ex officio
\nPhilip M. Katz, Research Director
\nMiriam E. Hauss, American Historical Association, staff<\/p>\n

Board of Advisors<\/h4>\n

James Banner, independent historian
\nJacques Barzun, Columbia University, emeritus
\nJerry Bentley, University of Hawaii at Manoa
\nDavid Berry, Community College Humanities Association
\nRichard Bulliet, Columbia University
\nDipesh Chakrabarty, University of Chicago
\nFrederick Cooper, New York University
\nJames Banner, independent historian
\nKatherine Fleming, Boston College
\nRobin Fleming, Boston College
\nLee Formwalt, Organization of American Historians
\nMichael Galgano, James Madison University
\nSam Gellens, Horace Mann School (New York City)
\nPatricia Graham, Harvard Graduate School of Education
\nSean Greene, University of Pennsylvania, student representative
\nJim Grossman, Newberry Library
\nCarl Guarneri, St. Mary’s College of California
\nLillian Guerra, Bates College, student representative
\nMelanie Gustafson, University of Vermont
\nEvelyn Hu-DeHart, Brown University
\nHenry Kiernan, West Morris (N.J.) Regional High School
\nJames Kloppenberg, Harvard University
\nEarl Lewis, University of Michigan
\nVernon Litdke, John Hopkins University, emeritus
\nPatrick Manning, Northeastern University
\nSaje Mathieu, Princeton University
\nJohn Morrow, University of Georgia
\nEdwin Perkins, University of Southern California, emeritus
\nIleana Rodr\u00edguez-Silva, University of Wisconsin at Madison, student representative
\nRoy Rosenzweig, George Mason University
\nLinda Shopes, Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission
\nVictoria Straughn, La Follette High School (Madison, Wisc.)
\nDavid Trask, Guilford Technical Community College
\nMary Ann Villarreal, University of Utah, student representative
\nLee Palmer Wandel, University of Wisconsin at Madison
\nAllan Winkler, Miami University
\nBarbara Winslow, Brooklyn College School of Education
\nCaroline Winterer, San Jos\u00e9 State University
\nCharles Zappia, San Diego Mesa College<\/p>\n

Acknowledgements<\/h4>\n

Hundreds of people helped make this report a reality. First we want to thank the Directors of Graduate Studies (or other faculty representatives) at 105 doctoral programs who took the time to complete a forty-one-page questionnaire and thus provided a foundation of data upon which to build the entire report. Department chairs also helped substantially by responding to an informal e-mail survey that helped shape the detailed questionnaire. Chairs, graduate directors, and other staff members at the nine history departments where we conducted site visits also provided crucial assistance. They provided us with a forum for testing our ideas and confirming the information gathered from the larger population of graduate departments\u2014and they were generous hosts. Graduate deans and other administrators at these schools also provided an invaluable perspective on the issues we were exploring.<\/p>\n

Graduate students played a significant role in developing this report. The American Historical Association’s Task Force on Graduate Education (later the Committee on Graduate Students) provided many helpful suggestions for the development of the survey and on successive drafts of the report. Members of the Committee on Graduate Students, along with graduate student members of our Advisory Committee and other consultants, participated in site visits and helped conduct independent meetings with students at the campuses we visited. Graduate student leaders at the nine campuses shared their views with the visiting committee. Dozens of graduate student members of the AHA responded to a call for comments on the preliminary results of this study; another group of students graciously agreed to review a draft of the report.<\/p>\n

The Advisory Committee shared with us their substantial experience and expertise every step of the way as we gleaned and sifted the information contained in these pages. We especially appreciate their timely critiques of various drafts of the report.<\/p>\n

We are also grateful to the many historians who took the time to participate in site visits or to meet with representatives of the Committee on Graduate Education at a dozen open forums. (Three of these forums were held during annual meetings of the AHA; the rest took place at meetings of other historical associations, and we would like to thank their leaders for providing us with access to the programs.) Other historians shared their concerns with the Committee via e-mail, surface mail, and the telephone; we thank them, too. Several scholars of higher education and higher education administrators read and generously commented on the report. The Committee on Graduate Education also profited from its several exchanges with a complementary study of history education being undertaken by the National Council on Education and the Disciplines.<\/p>\n

Two AHA staff members were indispensable to our efforts, going above and beyond the call of duty on numberless occasions. Miriam E. Hauss provided logistical and administrative support for the Committee’s many activities. Robert B. Townsend helped us frame the study with earlier data collected by the AHA and other researchers; formatted and analyzed the data from the survey of doctoral programs; and was an unparalleled source of statistical and other expertise.<\/p>\n

Finally, we owe a large debt of gratitude to the Carnegie Corporation of New York for its financial support.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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