{"id":114085,"date":"2026-03-12T10:20:48","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T14:20:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/?post_type=event&#038;p=114085"},"modified":"2026-03-26T17:21:35","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T21:21:35","slug":"history-majors-at-work-career-paths-for-history-bas","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/event\/history-majors-at-work-career-paths-for-history-bas\/","title":{"rendered":"History Majors at Work: Career Paths for History BAs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>History Majors at Work: Career Paths for History BAs<br \/>\n<\/strong><em>Online via Zoom<\/em><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong>Thursday, March 26, 3:00\u20134:15 p.m. ET<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This engaging, online roundtable featured professionals who turned their undergraduate training in history into meaningful careers across a range of fields. Our panelists reflected on how studying history prepared them for their professional paths and shared insights and advice for current undergraduate history students and recent alumni exploring career options after graduation.<\/p>\n<p>Panelists included <strong>Stephanie Halperin<\/strong>, director of development, School of Engineering &amp; Applied Science, George Washington University; <strong>Julia Ryan<\/strong>, regional operations manager, Arhaus Furniture; and <strong>Joshua Singh<\/strong>, management analyst, Booz Allen. This 75-minute event was free and open to the public.<\/p>\n<p>Several resources were discussed during the event:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/news-publications\/aha-booklets\/careers-for-history-majors\/\">Careers for History Majors<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/resource\/what-can-you-do-with-that-history-degree\/\">What can you do with that history degree?<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/resource\/career-readiness\/\">Career Readiness<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/resource\/choosing-a-career-pathway\/\">Choosing a Career Pathway<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"History Majors at Work: Career Paths for History BAs\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UGgKCFbCnRw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>History Majors at Work: Career Paths for History BAs Online via Zoom Thursday, March 26, 3:00\u20134:15 p.m. ET This engaging,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","aha-topic":[62,58],"month":[554],"event-type":[100],"year":[901],"class_list":{"0":"post-114085","1":"event","2":"type-event","3":"status-publish","4":"hentry","5":"aha-topic-career-paths","6":"aha-topic-professional-life","7":"month-march","8":"event-type-aha-online","9":"year-901","14":"year-2026","15":"no-featured-image"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/114085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/event"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/114085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115587,"href":"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/114085\/revisions\/115587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"aha-topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/aha-topic?post=114085"},{"taxonomy":"month","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/month?post=114085"},{"taxonomy":"event-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event-type?post=114085"},{"taxonomy":"year","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/year?post=114085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}