What I Do: Aaron Marrs - Historian, US Department of State

Aaron Marrs is a historian at the Policy Studies Division in the US Department of State. He describes his work this way: “Research and writing is at the heart of what I do every day.” How did he get this job? He deployed a little thing we like to call “intellectual self-confidence.” Listen to the interview to hear more about his federal career and how he got there.
What I Do: Historians Talk about Their Work is a web series that answers some of the questions people have about where historians work and what they do. Each month, a different historian will sit down to talk about what they do, how they got their job, what makes their job interesting or challenging, and what they love about their work. In this segment, Aaron Marrs, historian at the US Department of State, talks about his role and his path to a career in public history.
This video is part of the "What I Do" video series by the American Historical Association's Career Diversity for Historians Initiative. The American Historical Association is the largest professional organization serving historians in all fields and all professions. The AHA is a trusted voice advocating for history education, the professional work of historians, and the critical role of historical thinking in public life.
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The AHA's Career Diversity for Historians initiative is working to better prepare graduate students and early-career historians for a range of career options, within and beyond the academy. With generous funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Career Diversity is working to explore the culture and practice of graduate education and how it can better support the changing needs of PhD students.
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