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!
Tag: grants
Week 14: April 14
Historic Preservation
Guest Speaker: Dr. Anne Delano Steinert, University of Cincinnati
Read
- Priya Chayya, “Historic Preservation,” Inclusive Historians Handbook, 2020.
To Do
- Continue working on your final grants
Week 13: April 7
The City As Text
Read
- Dolores Hayden, The Power of Place
- Center for Culture, History, and Environment, “Reading an Urban Landscape”
To Do
- All A-Twitter #10
- Comp Notes #5 on The Power of Place
- Grant Assignment: Draft #1 Due
Professional Development & Skills | Grant Writing
Explore
- Grant Writing Basics, Grants.gov Community Blog
- Lisa Chasan-Taber, “10 Tips for Successful Grant Writing,” Chronicle of Higher Education
- Jennifer Guiliano and Simon Appleford, “Grants,” DevDH
Week 12: Mar 31
Read
- Nina Simon, The Art of Relevance [free online]
Think
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?
To Do
- All A-Twitter #9
- Comp Notes #4 on The Art of Relevance
- Grant Assignment: Select your grant
Professional Development & Skills: Social Media
Read
- Kelly McKinley, “What is Our Museum’s Social Impact: Trying to Understand and Measure How Our Museum Changes Lives in Our Community,” Medium, July 10, 2017.
- Margot Wallace, Writing for Museums, “Pinterest, Twitter, and Social Media Strategies” (p. 127-138) and “Public Relations” (p. 139-150).
Think
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?
