Careers combining STEM and history

by Deathstroke5289

I am trying to figure out what I want to do with my life. I have a deep love for history, but most of my talent probably lies in the STEM fields. (Engineering, Math, Computer Science). I was wondering if there are job fields, or niche jobs that combine both.

Thanks for any assistance or ideas!

unrelatedtohalloween

There’s a lot of attention on the so-called digital humanities, or on combining fields like history with STEM subjects. For example, you may find a project running statistical analysis on historic census data in a region to find patterns among the population there (did people die more often here vs. there? And so on). So there’s one example of math applied to history.

I’ve read about musicologists and archaeologists who want to work with experts in acoustic modeling to recreate the acoustic environments of historic sites, in order to better understand the role of acoustics in historic musical forms. That’s applied physics.

I could go on. I can’t suggest a specific career, but the possibilities for research are wide open should you want to pursue that avenue. I’m not sure what stage of your life you’re in, but I think you’d do well to engage with all of your interests, as varied as they are. Your talent for STEM subjects could prove to be of great benefit to you should you pursue history or archaeology as a career path.

unhandthatscience

I feel quite similarly actually and I’d love to go into a job like this. At the moment all I could think of would be a chemist doing archeological work but I don’t know if the skills of computer science or engineering would really be useful..

kennethkway

Might be an unpopular opinion but have you thought of the video game industry? In Singapore where the Ubisoft HQ is at, there are plenty of staff who studied history/art history. So I feel that if computer science is your thing maybe try something in the entertainment industry that is both historically stimulating and requires your technical expertise

Cosmic_Charlie

History of technology is a 'trendy' field these days, as is history of science. FWIW, I've often wondered why STEM fields generally do not require any course work in the history of their discipline. (Same for most any non-humanities field.)

https://www.historyoftechnology.org/