History Department

Helpful Links

Possible Careers
AHA Miniguide to Careers

Business Administration and Management

  • Account Representative
  • Collaborative Projects Program Officer
  • Communications Assistant
  • Income Generation Specialist
  • Management Consultant
  • Market Analyst
  • Personnel Officer
  • Pharmaceutical Representative
  • Program Director
  • Tour Director

Curatorial and Archival Management

  • Archivist
  • Curator
  • Museum Curator
  • Collections Manager
  • Artifacts Conservator
  • Assistant Director, Museum 
  • Site Administrator
  • Arborist
  • Art Director
  • Botanist
  • Folklorist
  • Librarian
  • Museum Register
  • Public Information Director
  • Publications Editor
  • Records Manager

Information Specialist

  • Administrative Assistant
  • Assistant Planner
  • Biographer
  • Bibliographer
  • Communications Assistant
  • Corporate Historian
  • Database Network Coordinator
  • Genealogist
  • Government Relations Assistant
  • Historian
  • Historic Preservation Planner
  • Information Manager
  • Information Scientist
  • Institutional Researcher
  • Intelligence Specialist
  • Library and Information Specialist
  • Market Researcher
  • Media Specialist
  • Paralegal
  • Research Analyst

Non-Classroom Education

  • Museum Educator
  • Coordinator of School and Youth Programs
  • Education Specialist
  • Counselor Naturalist
  • Outdoor Education Instructor
  • Interpretive Guide
  • Interpreter/Caretaker
  • Field Interpreter
  • Zoological Parks, Aquariums, Wildlife Refugees, and Bird Sanctuaries
  • Arboretums, Botanical and Aquatic Gardens, Conservatories, and Horticultural Societies.
  • National and State Parks 

Teaching

  • Teacher
  • Educator
  • Cooperating Teacher
  • History Teacher
  • Social Science Teacher
  • Instructor in History and Social Sciences
  • Professor of History
  • Associate Professor of History
  • History Instructor
  • History Lecturer 

Other Resources

American Association of Museums
American Association for State and Local History
American Historical Association
Further History Employment Information
Jobs in the Federal Government
Jobs in State and Local Government
National Council on Public History
National Trust for Historic Preservation
Organization for American Historians
Society for History in the Federal Government
Society of American Archivists

 

Department of History
Burkhardt Building (BB), room 200
Ball State University
Muncie, IN 47306

Hours: 8 a.m-5 p.m. Monday-Friday
(Summer Hours: 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.)
Phone: 765-285-8700
Fax: 765-285-5612
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