No readings this week. Keep working on your grants. For class today, I’m hoping to assemble a few people from different career paths to discuss their jobs and how they got there.
Lineup, TBD!
No readings this week. Keep working on your grants. For class today, I’m hoping to assemble a few people from different career paths to discuss their jobs and how they got there.
Lineup, TBD!
Guest Speaker: Dr. Anne Delano Steinert, University of Cincinnati
Communicating the relevance of history and historical narratives is at the core of what we do as public historians. How do we define relevance? Why is it important to communicate that relevance? What are some strategies we can use to connect to the public? What are our ultimate goals in making history relevant?
History (and sometimes badly interpreted history) can easily circulate among the public with social media. How can we use social media and other public relations approaches to strategically engage in public history practices? What are some of the dangers or disadvantages to engaging in history in this way? Each social media platform has different audiences and means of engagement – how does this create challenges and advantages in using social media as a public historian or an institution?
How do museums represent their constituencies today? How can they keep their focus on the local community while still engaging in a national conversation? How does the mission for a community-founded museum differ from other institutions?
Public history – who? what? where? why? What factors should be considered when doing good PH work? What is interpretation? What do public historians do?
Consider the difference between constructing personal emails and emails on behalf of an institution (both individual and mass messages). What are best practices of both personal and institutional emails?
What is public history? Where can we find public history? Who does public history? Why do we do public history? What does collaborative practice look like? Why do we collaborate? Prepare a definition of public history and bring it to class.
Pro Tip: Follow each other, follow me, follow the authors we read. This is a great way to expand your network.