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  Launching the NCPH and AASLH survey on sexual harassment and gender discrimination in public history

  Mary Rizzo

  The National Council on Public History (NCPH) and the American Association for State and Local History (AASLH) have launched an online survey about sexual harassment and gender discrimination in public history. This effort is the culmination of more than a year of work by members of NCPH’s Board-Led Subcommittee on Gender Discrimination and Sexual Harassment, […]
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  A call for resources on sexual harassment and gender discrimination in public history

  Kristyn Scorsone

  The National Council on Public History (NCPH) board-led Subcommittee on Gender Discrimination and Sexual Harassment is collecting a list of resources to share with public history professionals. During this month’s virtual NCPH Annual Meeting, please join us in assembling and assessing resources on topics of gender discrimination and sexual harassment to empower public historians to […]
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  Sexual harassment and gender discrimination in public history

  Mary Rizzo

  […] all, it was the 1990s. I could handle myself. Looking back decades later, as we are in the midst of a public discussion about sexual harassment and gender discrimination in the workplace, I see how inappropriate he was and how he capitalized on my lack of professional employment experience. He knew, intuitively, that I would […]
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  The Continuing Work of the Board-led Subcommittee on Gender Discrimination and Sexual Harrasment

  Mary Rizzo and Kristen Baldwin Deathridge

  […] activities of the committee continue. As we look forward to our annual meeting in Atlanta, members of the National Council on Public History (NCPH) board-led Subcommittee on Gender Discrimination and Sexual Harassment wanted to share an update on our recent activities. Co-chaired by Kristen Baldwin Deathridge and Mary Rizzo, this subcommittee continues work begun by […]

• How should we respond when a public historian engages in, or has experienced, sexual harassment?

  G. Samantha Rosenthal

  Over the past several years, many of us have participated in conversations about the prevalence of gender discrimination and sexual harassment in the public history field. This behavior has occurred at conferences, in workplaces, and in educational settings, among consultants, audiences, frontline workers, students, and others. How should we, as a public history community, respond? […]

• NCPH’s own “Repair Work” at #ncph2019 and beyond

  Meghan Hillman

  This spring at the 2018 NCPH Annual Meeting in Las Vegas, NCPH’s Diversity and Inclusion Task Force (NCPH Inclusion) held an on-the-fly session about sexual harassment and gender discrimination in the public history profession. You can read more about that session in Mary Rizzo’s recent post and a June 2018 Public History News piece. Out […]

• From #MeToo to systemic cultural change: a public historian’s call to action

  Chel Rose Miller

  […] harmful behaviors before sexual violence has occurred in the first place. It also gives everyone in the community a role in preventing harm, including sexual harassment and gender discrimination. Through small group discussion and interactive scenarios, participants learned how to identify sexual violence, how to support survivors who disclose their survivor status, and how to […]

• Editor’s Corner: the work of public history

  Sarah H. Case

  […] other public history workplaces that disabled people face and offers recommendations for more accessible workplaces. In her discussion of the surveys created by NCPH and AASLH on gender discrimination and sexual harassment, Mary Rizzo finds that the economic precarity of historical institutions contributes to reliance on “power brokers,” including leaders, board members, and donors, who […]

• Mapping Dissent: Queer and Trans resistance at UCSB

  Melissa Barthelemy

  […] our hearts were ripped from our chests and stomped on. That pain has only increased with each passing month of the administration as more insults, hatred, and discrimination are foisted upon the queer and trans communities as well as other marginalized populations in our country and beyond.[1] In the wake of this current political […]

• On NCPH 2020, H.B. 481, and not passing the mic

  Ashley Bouknight, Meghan Hillman, Brian Joyner and Marla Miller

  […] the state. We ultimately decided not to do so after the law was amended to contain explicit protection against discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity. What does H.B. 481 mean for NCPH 2020? In the wake of the signing of this legislation, NCPH staff prepared information for the board of […]