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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Do organizations like the State Dept, INternational Org of States, UN, etc have historians? Perhaps they do and you could manage their archives or written story? The Smithsonian  seems promising perhaps. See if your network includes anyone from there. If not, write cold and ask for informational interviews.

While you are looking, Could you get freelance work writing the Background or History content for webpages?
 
Good luck.[/quote]
NP and this is clearly well-meant advice but not practical. For one, archives are managed by archivists, which is a field in its own right. Same for museums; curators, collection development staff, etc. tend to have degrees in museum studies or the like. While as a History PhD OP undoubtedly has valuable experience from the end-user side with archives, unless she's had the opportunity to gain experience in one it's not that likely that she's going to be able to walk in off the street and into a role at one of these institutions where competition is quite stiff.

OP, not at all to say there's not a whole lot of things you can do with a history PhD outside of academia. Plenty of companies will hire a PhD who can write! And there are a ton of nonprofits in the DC area who are interested in those with PhDs. (And around here, you can actually get a decently paid, if not necessarily top-dollar, job at a nonprofit.) The recommendations to check out the CHE and Chronicle of Philanthropy are good. Idealist.org (https://www.idealist.org/en) is another good place you might look if you're interested in nonprofit work.[/quote]

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