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KJ Shepherd is a Ph.D. historian whose research focuses on the history of American standardized testing and the \u201ctest preparation\u201d industry it spawned. Along with trading stories about the horrors of teaching the SAT, we have a blunt talk about what\u2019s happening in the history discipline: the impossibility of finding full-time jobs, the humiliation of the application process, the \u201calt-ac\u201d lie, and much more. But we also discuss the wider historical moment we\u2019re in, and how rising generations of non-tenured Ph.D.\u2019s are shaping the future of scholarly work and public engagement.\xa0