Saving Underrepresented Voices: Failures & Successes of Diversity in Oral History

Matthew Coody, Executive Director, New York Preservation Archive Project

Proposal Type

Panel

Seeking
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking Specific Expertise
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
Related Topics
  • Inclusion
  • Oral History
  • Preservation
Abstract

We propose a panel discussion that explores the failures and successes of initiatives working to document underrepresented voices across America today. Read More

Public Histories of Poverty

Ethan Sribnick, Consultant, Adjunct Professor, Montgomery College

Proposal Type

Roundtable

Seeking
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking Specific Expertise
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
Related Topics
  • Consulting
  • Inclusion
Abstract

As a consultant, I have been engaged in writing institutional histories of social welfare and advocacy organizations that have focused on the needs of the poor and dispossessed. Read More

New Arenas for Proactive Public Historians

Rebecca Bush, Curator of History/Exhibitions Manager, The Columbus Museum

Proposal Type

Roundtable

Seeking
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
Related Topics
  • Civic Engagement
  • Inclusion
Abstract

This roundtable seeks to highlight the experiences of public historians who are proactive in their communities in sometimes unexpected ways. Read More

Sustaining Projects Across Distances

Adina Langer, Curator, Museum of History and Holocaust Education

Proposal Type

Roundtable

Seeking
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
Related Topics
  • Consulting
  • Inclusion
  • Theory
Abstract

What challenges are present when you attempt to sustain projects across distances, both physically and culturally? Read More

Stories from the Borderlands: Possibilities, Limitations, and Challenges of Oral History

Judith Perera, Ph.D. Candidate, Arizona State University

Proposal Type

Roundtable

Seeking
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking Specific Expertise
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
Related Topics
  • Inclusion
  • Oral History
  • Place
Abstract

The borderlands present a unique opportunity for exploration and documentation for the public historian. Read More

Insider/Outsider: Engaging Racial Bias & Positionality in Interpretation

GVGK Tang, Graduate Student, Temple University

Proposal Type

Working Group

Seeking
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking Specific Expertise
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
Related Topics
  • Civic Engagement
  • Inclusion
  • Theory
Abstract

Who gets to do what kind of work? We, as public historians, must engage the ethics of occupying/interpreting spaces to which we do not belong. Read More

How do we interpret disability in our National Parks?

Perri Meldon, Candidate for MA in History, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Proposal Type

Roundtable

Seeking
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking Specific Expertise
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
Related Topics
  • Civic Engagement
  • Inclusion
  • Museums/Exhibits
Abstract

I intend to understand how we interpret disability in the National Park Service (and possibly local institutions, as well). Read More

Hegemonic Power, Fantasy Heritage, and the Legacy of Juan de Onate in Southwest Tourism

Frank G Perez, Associate Professor, University of Texas at El Paso

Proposal Type

Panel

Seeking
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
Related Topics
  • Inclusion
  • Memory
  • Place
Abstract

The proposed paper examines the First Thanksgiving of the Americas Festival in San Elizario, Texas using hegemonic theory and Carey McWilliams’ (2016) concept of fantasy heritage to argue the event distorts history, erases the mestizo/Mexican/Mexican American peoples from history, and serves as a vehicle that promotes Eurocentrism in a metro area that is 83% Mexican/Mexican American. Read More

Uncomfortable Histories and Advocating from Within: The Millennial Power Dynamic and Ethics at Public History Institutions

Kate Crosby, Graduate Student, University of South Carolina

Proposal Type

Structured Conversation

Seeking
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
Related Topics
  • Civic Engagement
  • Inclusion
Abstract

Younger public history professionals have been trained not only in the methods of public history, but also in the ethics of the profession. Read More

Graphic Novels and History

Andrea Wilson, Graduate Teaching Assistant/Student, Wichita State University

Proposal Type

Roundtable

Seeking
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
Related Topics
  • Inclusion
  • Teaching
Abstract

When most people hear about graphic novels they think of childish comic books that are only meant for light reading. Read More