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14 January 2013 – John Dichtl 1
Turn to the sixth page of the 2013 Program of the American Historical Association and you will spot a genial turn of phrase: “the malleable PhD.” It refers to the idea—already engrained in the practice of public history—that graduate training need not limit one to a tenure-track teaching career. Read More
11 January 2013 – Anne Parsons 5
In our last History@Work post, we charted the recent burst of academic public history jobs in the past few years. This year’s job market has continued the trend, with thirty jobs seeking either major or minor public history specialties posted on the Academic Wiki. Read More
07 January 2013 – Bob Beatty 9
employment, training, new professionals, conference, What Employers Seek panel, museums, education, profession
This is an initial post in a series to discuss the genesis of the idea for the “What Employers Seek in Public History Graduates” session at the 2013 National Council on Public History meeting in Ottawa. Session panelists will share their thoughts on the topic in entries in the coming weeks. Read More
21 December 2012 – Nicole King 1
During the fall 2012 semester, I taught the third iteration of my undergraduate research seminar “Preserving Places, Making Spaces in Baltimore” for the Department of American Studies at UMBC. The class is designed to expose students to historical documentation skills as well as business practices that can be used in the non-profit world. Read More
14 December 2012 – Morgen Young 1
In Part 1 of this post, participants in a Northwest History Network professional development program called Who Hires Consulting Historians? talked about some of the “soft skills” that employers look for. Part 2 is an additional excerpt from the discussion. You can hear a podcast of the entire program here. Read More
07 December 2012 – Morgen Young 1
On November 8, 2012, the Northwest History Network, a non-profit organization in Portland, Oregon, hosted a professional development program entitled Who Hires Consulting Historians, a follow-up to A Future in Historical Consulting: Is It for You?, a panel discussion held over the summer. Read More
08 November 2012 – Melinda Jette 4
government, profession, employment, training, politics, Imperiled Promise, methods, public engagement, scholarship, education
Last Friday, November 2, 2012, National Park Service personnel, public historians, academics, and graduate students from the Northeast met at the Massachusetts State Archives in Boston to discuss the Organization of American Historians’ recent report Imperiled Promise: The State of History in the National Park Service (2011). Read More
03 October 2012 – editors 10
publicity, scholarship, training, social media, graduate students, digital media, projects, public engagement
~ Annie Cullen and Rachel Boyle, graduate students in Public History at Loyola University Chicago, are the creators of Public History Ryan Gosling, a blog that pairs the popular “Hey Girl” meme with public history theory. The project has reached over 60,000 people and stimulated meaningful conversation in various corners of the Internet. Read More
24 September 2012 – Modupe Labode 2
I’ve been thinking about failure and public history. Failure—and mistakes more generally—aren’t concepts we like to consider. The word is intertwined with feelings of shame and humiliation, private emotions which are the antithesis of the public nature of public history. Many people’s impulse is to hide failure or “spin” it, the clichéd strategy of “making lemons out of lemonade.” Read More
17 September 2012 – Anne Parsons 15
digital history, scholarship, education, profession, employment, training, graduate students, new professionals
In recent years, the number of tenure track academic jobs in history has dropped to some of the lowest levels in 25 years. In response, Anthony Grafton, James Grossman and Jesse Lemisch have suggested that historians shift their attentions outside of the ivory tower, with Grafton and Grossman encouraging PhDs to get jobs in public history and Lemisch calling for historians to create new public history opportunities. Read More