Careers and Professional Development for Majors in History and Anthropology
In addition to our own Center for Student Success (CSS) here on campus, the institutions and organizations listed below offer a broad range of career paths and many links to job listings.
History majors may want to start at the American Historical Association's What can you do with an undergraduate degree in history? Many, many things.
- PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
- New Jersey Council for History Education (NJCHE)
P.O. Box 1135
Hewitt, NJ 07421-1135
www.njche.com - American Historical Association
400 A St.,SE
Washington,DC 20003-3889
http://www.historians.org/ - Foreign Policy Research Institute
1528 Walnut Street STE 610
Philadelphia, PA 19102-9591
E-mail: fpri@fpri.org - Oral History Association
Dickinson College
P.O.Box 1773
Carlisle,PA 17013
www.dickinson.edu/oha/ - EDUCATIONAL SOURCES
- Brookdale Community College Holocaust Center
765 Newman Springs Road
Lincroft, New Jersey 07738
www.holocaustbcc.org - Vietnam Era Educational Center
PO Box 648
Holmdel, New Jersey 07733
www.njvvmf.org - MUSEUMS
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
100 Raoul Wallenberg Place, SW
Washington, DC 20024-2126
E-mail David Klevan for information on joining the listserve the museum offers for educators:dklevan@listserve.ushmm.org - Museum of Jewish Heritage—A Living Memorial To The Holocaust
18 First Place
Battery park City
New York, NY 10004-1484
www.mjhnyc.org - OPPORTUNITIES FOR SUMMER STUDY FOR HISTORY TEACHERS
- Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
19 West 44th Street Suite 500
New York, New York 10036
www.gilderlehrman.org - Mandel Teacher Fellowship Program
Education Division
U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum
100 Raoul Wallenberg Place, SW
Washington, DC 20024-2126
www.ushmm.org/education/foreducators/ - National Endowment For The Humanities
1100 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20506
NOTE: Sandy Villa has copies of the newsletters from the AHA and NCHE in the History Department Office.
Note: Each of these sources offer activities for professional development for New Jersey teachers.
