National Council on Public History

Paul C. Thistle has more than 26 years of mission and management work in museums and archives. He also served on the boards of professional museum & archives associations (for example, the Association of Manitoba Museums, the Association for Manitoba Archives, and the Yukon Historical and Museums Association). He has been called on to make several presentations to these organisations’ training events. Most recently, he chaired and presented the session titled “Brainwriting Solutions to Pandemic & Previous Poor Quality of Working Lives” at the 2022 American Association for State and Local History annual conference in Buffalo, NY. Paul has published articles in periodicals such as Curator, Muse, Journal of Museum Education, Material Culture: The Journal of the Pioneer America Society, as well as one published in Curator, “Visible Storage for the Small Museum” that was republished in Care of Collections: Leicester Readers in Museum Studies Care of Collections. Leicester Readers in Museum Studies (London & New York: Routledge, 1994 & 1997 pp. 187-196) as well as others in the field of Indigenous history including the national, provincial, and academic award winning book “Indian-European Trade Relations in the Lower Saskatchewan River Region to 1840” (Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 1986). Since 1990, Paul has been writing about the overwork culture in the museum field—that closely parallels archives—and currently blogs on Solving Task Saturation for Museum Workers and Critical Museology Miscellanea. He also taught Museum Studies at Beloit College in Wisconsin.