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See the source data for the most up-to-date information. A : Archived Publication. Baccalaureate Origins of U. Numbers of U. Time to Degree of U. The proportion of new history PhDs still on the job market rose from A significant aspect of the latter change appears to come from a renewed focus on traditional academic employment.
In the cohort of history PhDs, In the proportion of new history PhDs looking in that direction shot up to As we note in our survey of the academic job market, despite the recent improvements only a few geographic fields are approaching equilibrium between jobs and degrees. The NORC report also provides additional information on some of the broad trends in the field specializations of new history doctorates Figure 1. As has been the case for almost 10 years, American history specialists comprised more than 40 percent of the new PhDs, although dipping a bit from This drop was mirrored by an increase in European history, which rose from With the report, NORC rectified a long-standing lacuna in the fields of specialization it tabulates by adding Latin American and African history.
Latin American history specialists accounted for 4. Historians of Asia earned 6. Among the remaining fields, 4. It appears that the new cohort of history PhDs spent slightly longer earning their degree—9.
That can include time enrolled in pursuit of other degrees as well, so it is an imperfect measure. Nevertheless, the average increased perceptibly for the cohort, rising from 9. As a result the median age for these new history PhDs rose from It is important to note that to properly track new history PhDs, we have to look at three different sources of information, which report at different paces, ask different questions, and use different methods for collecting their information.
The first—with the most up-to-date information—is the list of new PhDs reported to the AHA's Directory of History Departments, Historical Organizations, and Historians , which we tabulate early in the following year and report along with the latest trends in academic jobs.
While this analysis does not allow us to make cross-disciplinary assessments, it does provide an early indicator of trends and provides a snapshot of where students earned earlier degrees.
The second data set comes from the NORC report, which provides data that is more detailed, but lags a year behind the information we can report from the Directory. The third source is the Department of Education, which lags two years behind in reporting its data and collects its information directly from colleges and universities. This also provides some demographic data, though not quite as personal as in the NORC surveys, and connects the patterns in new PhDs conferred to patterns in history degrees conferred at all levels.
For the latest data—from the —03 academic year —see the October issue of Perspectives. Hoffer, V.
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