This roundtable will discuss the landscape of faculty mentoring in liberal arts college history departments, discussing experiences of what works—or doesn’t work—in the mentoring of history professors at all stages of their careers. Our goal is to recruit a roundtable with participants from a variety of subfields, backgrounds, experience levels, and types of liberal arts colleges.

Participants in the panel won't deliver formal papers or presentations; instead, our goal will be to build a conversation among roundtable members around themes of common interest, while making sure that each participant has the chance to talk about issues that particularly interest them. We envision this roundtable as a first step in what we hope will be an ongoing series of conversations around the theme of mentorship. Some questions and perspectives we are thinking with include (but are not limited to):

• What are the benefits of peer-mentorship? (in theory, in practice)?

• How can mentorship challenge or replicate existing hierarchies within departments and colleges? What are the costs or benefits of challenging hierarchy in a mentoring relationship?

• Can mentorship relationships be structured as mutually beneficial?

• Can students serve as mentors for faculty and what are the benefits and drawbacks of student-professor mentorship?

• How do we help folks navigate AHA’s recommendations about evaluating diverse forms of scholarship, including digital scholarship? How can we encourage college-level tenure and promotion committees to embrace these guidelines for broadening their understanding of what “counts” as scholarship?

• What are modes of mentorship that are particularly germane to liberal arts college history faculties? What types of mentorship work best for folks at different career stages (including senior faculty)? Faculty members from historically underrepresented identities? Tenure-track and non-tenure-track faculty?

• What institutional cultures/mechanisms/resources in a single institution or across institutions contribute to productive mentoring?