Teach courses in human history and historiography. Includes both teachers primarily engaged in teaching and those who do a combination of teaching and research.
U.S. Workers
19,860
Median Salary
$81,500
10-Year Growth
-0.2%
Annual Openings
1,700
Typical entry: Doctoral or professional degree
24 of 25 tasks have some AI capability
Exposure Trend
This score reflects estimated AI technical capability for tasks in this occupation. It does not predict employment changes, and it does not account for company-specific constraints, regulation, or adoption barriers.
Prepare course materials, such as syllabi, homework assignments, and handouts.
AI: Fully automatable - AI can reliably generate syllabi, homework assignments, and handouts tailored to course objectives and levels, meeting the practical requirements of this task.
Maintain student attendance records, grades, and other required records.
AI: Fully automatable - By 2025 AI and integrated LMS automation can reliably maintain attendance, gradebooks, and required records with minimal human oversight.
Compile bibliographies of specialized materials for outside reading assignments.
AI: Fully automatable - AI tools in 2025 can efficiently search, filter, and compile specialized bibliographies and citation lists to publication quality.
Develop, maintain, and teach online courses.
AI: Fully automatable - By 2025 AI can generate course content, maintain LMS materials, run automated assessments and deliver lectures/interactions, enabling end-to-end development, maintenance, and teaching of online courses with limited human input.
Prepare and deliver lectures to undergraduate or graduate students on topics such as ancient history, postwar civilizations, and the history of third-world countries.
AI: Partial - AI can prepare lecture content and deliver prerecorded or synthetic lectures, but cannot consistently replicate live pedagogical responsiveness, classroom dynamics, and adaptive teaching in real time.
Evaluate and grade students' class work, assignments, and papers.
AI: Partial - AI can grade objective items and provide rubric-based feedback on essays, but struggles with nuanced judgment, holistic evaluation, and handling academic integrity cases without human oversight.
Initiate, facilitate, and moderate classroom discussions.
AI: Partial - AI can initiate and moderate online discussions and seed prompts effectively, but cannot fully emulate the emotional intelligence, real-time facilitation, and authority a human instructor brings to live classroom discussion.
Compile, administer, and grade examinations, or assign this work to others.
AI: Partial - AI can compile exam questions, assist administration, and auto-grade many formats, but secure administration, accommodations, and high-stakes oversight typically require human involvement.
Plan, evaluate, and revise curricula, course content, course materials, and methods of instruction.
AI: Partial - AI can analyze outcomes, suggest curriculum revisions, and draft course designs, but final planning and accreditation-sensitive decisions require human judgment and institutional governance.
Maintain regularly scheduled office hours to advise and assist students.
AI: Partial - AI chatbots can provide advising support and answer common questions during virtual office hours, but cannot replace personalized mentorship, confidentiality, and the nuanced advising responsibilities of faculty.
Conduct research in a particular field of knowledge and publish findings in professional journals, books, or electronic media.
AI: Partial - AI can perform literature reviews, data analysis, and draft manuscripts, but cannot independently conceive, ethically conduct, and take scholarly responsibility for original research without substantial human leadership.
Select and obtain materials and supplies, such as textbooks.
AI: Partial - AI can recommend and help order textbooks and supplies, but final academic selection and budget/department approvals typically require human judgment.
Keep abreast of developments in the field by reading current literature, talking with colleagues, and participating in professional conferences.
AI: Partial - AI can scan, summarize, and alert faculty to literature and conference outputs, but networking and selective professional judgment remain human-centered.
Supervise undergraduate or graduate teaching, internship, and research work.
AI: Partial - AI can support supervision by providing feedback, project planning, and literature guidance, but cannot fully replace human mentorship, ethical oversight, and interpersonal development responsibilities.
Advise students on academic and vocational curricula and on career issues.
AI: Partial - AI can provide data-driven academic and career guidance and draft plans, yet nuanced mentorship and high-stakes vocational advising still need human involvement.
Collaborate with colleagues to address teaching and research issues.
AI: Partial - AI can facilitate collaboration by drafting documents, analyzing data, and scheduling, but cannot fully replace interpersonal negotiation and shared governance.
Serve on academic or administrative committees that deal with institutional policies, departmental matters, and academic issues.
AI: Partial - AI can prepare reports, model policy impacts, and summarize materials for committees, but serving on committees involves responsibilities and deliberation that require humans.
Participate in student recruitment, registration, and placement activities.
AI: Partial - AI can automate recruitment outreach, registration workflows, and placement matching, but relationship-building and on-site recruitment activities still need human staff.
Perform administrative duties, such as serving as department head.
AI: Partial - AI can automate administrative tasks (scheduling, reporting, budgeting analysis) but cannot fully perform the leadership, governance, political negotiation, and institutional accountability required of a department head.
Review books and journal articles for potential publication.
AI: Partial - AI can perform preliminary manuscript checks and draft review comments, but expert critical evaluation and editorial responsibility cannot be fully automated.
Teach community courses and speak to local groups and organizations.
AI: Partial - AI can create and deliver talks or workshops (including virtual/recorded sessions) and help prepare community courses, but in-person relationship-building and local contextual engagement remain human-led.
Write grant proposals to procure external research funding.
AI: Partial - AI can draft competitive grant text, budgets, and literature reviews quickly, but proposal strategy, novel research design, and institutional/PI accountability still require substantial human leadership and iteration.
Act as advisers to student organizations.
AI: Partial - AI can advise student organizations on operations, event planning, and governance, but cannot fully assume adviser roles that require campus-specific knowledge, mentorship, and official responsibilities.
Provide professional consulting services to government, educational institutions, or industry.
AI: Partial - AI can produce analyses, recommendations, and reports for clients, but professional consulting often demands client relationships, accountability, and contextual judgement that prevent full automation.
Participate in campus and community events.
AI: Not automatable - Participating in campus and community events requires physical presence and interpersonal engagement that AI cannot perform autonomously.