At last year’s THATCamp Prime, Katina Rogers did an interesting session about her alt-ac study for SCI, which revealed (at least to me) some variations in the categories different disciplines use to describe potential job opportunities for PhDs beyond the professoriate. Given the range of participants and disciplines at THATCamp Leadership, perhaps this gathering could provide an opportunity to talk about some of those definitional issues. For instance, how “Ac” is “Alt-Ac?” And how does it align with what historians call “public history.” And where does DH fit in the mix? The answers to these questions often seems to depend on who is answering, and their own particular career trajectories. Perhaps we can sort out how these categories relate to each other and overlap.
