Employment Resources

These very active local, regional, and national job boards are the most comprehensive sources for opportunities in Boston and New England areas, and beyond—visit often!

NEMA Jobs (New England Museum Association)

Hire Culture (Mass Cultural Council)

ArchivesGig 

SLIS Jobline (Simmons College School of Library and Information Science)

NCPH Job Listings (National Council on Public History)

AASLH Career Center (American Association for State and Local History)

USAJobs (federal jobs)

Museum Studies at Tufts University 

AAM JobHQ (American Alliance of Museums)

PreserveNet (Historic Preservation and allied fields)

Museum Employment Resource Center

Career Paths in Public History

The major public history professional organizations offer resources for emerging professionals and others in the field.  In the summer of 2020, the Joint Task Force on Public History Education and Employment—a collaboration of  the American Association for State and Local History, the American Historical Association, the National Council on Public History, and the Organization of American Historians—released “Career Paths in Public History.” This report on the careers of public historians who received their graduate degrees between 1985 and 2017 is a unique and rich assessment of public careers based on a survey with almost 1500  responses, mostly from the years after 2007.  

The Task Force’s 2017 report, “What Do Public History Employers Want?,” is also useful for students and early professionals.