2020 Virtual Programs
quick links
RFP in PDF format
RFP in Word docx format
Explanatory blog post
Questions? Email NCPH at [email protected]
In light of the COVID-19 pandemic and resultant unemployment and under-employment of many public historians, the National Council on Public History opened an RFP in July 2020 for virtual programming or projects to be planned and executed through the rest of the year. Because NCPH has a small staff and small capacity, the organizers agreed to take the lead on planning and execution, with assistance in the form of promotion and access to NCPH platforms.
We welcome you to read this post on our blog, History@Work, for more information about the impetus for and ethos behind this RFP. In line with the original goals for the allocation of this funding, we particularly prioritized proposals from public historians who have been laid off or furloughed by the COVID-19 pandemic; BIPOC public historians; LGBTQ+ public historians; and disabled public historians.
click below for more information about each program
- “Pandemic, Protest, and Pedagogy: The Challenges and Opportunities for Public History and the Humanities at HBCUs” – organized by Keisha Brown, Andrew Patrick, and Andrea Ringer, Tennessee State University
- “Community-engaged Digital Programming: A Retrospective of the Tadaima! Japanese American Community Virtual Pilgrimage” – organized by Mia Russell, Friends of Minidoka
- “Facing the Band: Elissa Blount Moorhead and the (Ana)architectures of Community Ties. A Conversation on Co-creation and Community Building” – organized by Aggie Ebrahimi Bazaz, Georgia State University
- “Beyond Life or Death: Afterlives of Pandemics Past and Present” – organized by Britt Dahlberg and Jessica Martucci, Public Humanities Scholars
- “In Our Own Words: Deaf Perspectives in Oral History and Public History” – organized by Anna Kaplan, Independent Historian and Oral Historian
- “Developing Critical New Content for The Inclusive Historian’s Handbook” – organized by Will Walker, Cooperstown Grad Program, SUNY Oneonta, and Modupe Labode, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution