American Historical Association to stop sponsoring practice out of concern for fairness to job candidates, growing irrelevance AHA Executive Director James Grossman The American Historical Association is ending what has long been a prominent feature at academic conferences: job interviews. AHA recently announced that it will no longer sponsor first-round job interviews at its annual meeting. The decision comes as academic associations of all types reconsider the practice, both for practical reasons and out of concern that interviews force cash-strapped candidates to spend money on travel and access to events. AHA unveiled the new policy in June but media coverage of the… Read More