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M.A. Public History Student Handbook
MASTER OF ARTS CONCENTRATION IN PUBLIC HISTORY GRADUATE STUDENT HANDBOOK ASSEMBLED BY Graduate Director and Director of Public History Department of History Middle Tennessee State University Revised and in effect Fall 2018 DEPARTMENTAL POLICIES AND GUIDELINES DESCRIBED IN THIS HANDBOOK SUPPLEMENT UNIVERSITY POLICIES AND ACADEMIC REGULATIONS, AS ARTICULATED IN THE GRADUATE CATALOG Revised 4/23/19 TABLE OF CONTENTS page 1. CORE COURSES 3 2. SELECTION OF PUBLIC HISTORY SPECIALIZATION 3 3. SELECTION OF MAJOR FIELD AND ADVISOR 4 4. NON-MAJOR FIELD ELECTIVES 4 5. PROFESSIONAL PORTFOLIO REQUIREMENT/GUIDELINES 5 6. PUBLIC HISTORY INTERNSHIP 7 7. THESIS AND NON-THESIS OPTIONS 10 8. SUMMARY OF COURSE REQUIREMENTS 10 9. MAINTAINING SATISFACTORY PROGRESS 11 10. DEGREE PLAN 11 11. COMPREHENSIVE EXAMINATIONS: NON-THESIS OPTION 11 12. THESIS 14 13. GRADUATION PROCESS/PAPERWORK 17 14. SUPPORT FOR CONFERENCE TRAVEL & THESIS RESEARCH 17 15. GRADUATE ASSISTANTSHIPS 17 16. SELECTED STUDIES AND ADVANCED PROJECTS COURSES 18 17. DISTANCE LEARNING POLICY 18 FORMS AND GUIDELINES: SUBMIT ALL FORMS TO THE HISTORY DEPARTMENT - GRADUATE PROGRAMS EXECUTIVE AIDE M.A. PUBLIC HISTORY DEGREE PROGRAM CHECKLIST 19 INTERNSHIP AGREEMENT FORMAT FOR HIST 6570 21 INTERNSHIP REPORT REQUIREMENTS FOR HIST 6570 24 REPORT OF M.A. COMPREHENSIVE EXAMINATION 26 REPORT OF M.A.P.H. PORTFOLIO REVIEW 27 THESIS PROPOSAL ACCEPTANCE FORM 28 M.A. THESIS GUIDELINES 29 SAMPLE THESIS APPROVAL PAGE 32 REQUEST FOR STUDENT TRAVEL ASSISTANCE FORM 33 REQUEST FOR STUDENT TRAVEL REIMBURSEMENT 34 2 1. CORE COURSES: M.A. PUBLIC HISTORY Two courses are required for all students seeking a Master of Arts degree from the History Department: HIST 6010 and HIST 6020. -
(2008-2018): a Case Study on the Greek Public History Magazine “The Illustrated History”1
Representations of the Greek-German relationship in the decade of crisis (2008-2018): a case study on the Greek public history magazine “The Illustrated History”1 Germanos Vasileiadis, University of Western Macedonia Kostis Tsioumis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Ifigeneia Vamvakidou, University of Western Macedonia Ilias Sailakis, University of Western Macedonia Abstract Germany’s tough negotiating tactics during Greek economic crisis, in which harsh austerity measures were imposed in Greek citizens, had produced a bad mood between the relations among the two states and their citizens. This mood is strengthened by the mass media, changing the Greek conception about Germany and E.U. in general. In this research we study on the magazine named as "The History Illustrated" which is the first Greek magazine of public historical material published since 1968 by Papyros editions. Public history as a “nonacademic narrative” plays an important role in the modern construction of national or historic consciousness which create the image of the “other”. The research material is analysed as a multimodal, narrative and visual “text” which describes the past events in many diverse forms of historical narratives. We focus on the choices of the editor using the method of narrative analysis, so as to exact results about what image is formed about Germany and Europe. The research material is structured on (5) references- covers and 15 historical texts that are representing the Greek-German relationship (Issue 506: August 2010, 524: February 2012, 535: January 2013, 540: June 2013, 544: October 2013). Keywords crisis, public history, Greece- Germany 1 If this paper is quoted or referenced, we ask that it be acknowledged as: Vasileaidis, G., Tsioumis, K., Vamvakidou, I., & Sailakis, I. -
Introduction to Public History History 397Z - Fall 2015 - Syllabus
Introduction to Public History History 397Z - Fall 2015 - Syllabus Tu Th 2:30-3:45 in Herter 118 Elizabeth Sharpe Visiting Lecturer Office in Herter 637 Office Hours Thurs 3:45-5:00 or by appt. [email protected] Course Overview The purpose of this course is to introduce the practice of public history and its intellectual foundations. Through class discussions and assignments, we will examine the activities of public historians and the issues they face in their work. Public history encompasses a variety of occupations which all involve, to some degree, collecting, preserving, and interpreting history for the public. Public historians are well-trained historians who may work as museum curators and educators, historic site interpreters, archivists, oral historians, community activists, film and digital media producers, or historic preservationists. They may be employed at nonprofit organizations, cultural institutions, corporations, government agencies, and as independent consultants. The practice of public history typically takes place outside of the traditional academic arena and its audience is the general public—children and adults alike. Yet, the two arenas overlap and public and academic historians often work collaboratively. In addition to looking at the many areas of public history, we will examine related theoretical constructs like heritage, community, commemoration, and memory, and we will explore the many methods of engaging audiences. Class activities and assignments will include practicing some of the basic methods -
Transnational History: a Review of Past and Present Scholarship
Transnational history: a review of past and present scholarship Simon Macdonald This essay reviews the development of transnational approaches within recent historical scholarship. It is intended principally as a historiographical introduction, offering an overview of relevant scholarly debates and varieties of practice. Insofar as it is a programmatic intervention, it grows out of discussions about the work the UCL Centre for Transnational History is engaged upon, and reflects the Centre’s priority that transnational history should be an open field for discussion, capable of interesting historians working across a range of different perspectives, rather than a dogmatic exercise. As will be seen, this openness emerges prominently in a number of the recent accounts aimed at setting out the case for transnational history, and has been characterized as its most pronounced heuristic strength. This essay is divided into three parts. The first and largest section examines discursive or schematic accounts of transnational history, outlines the development of transnational approaches, and sketches how these have been situated in relation to a series of related approaches, such as comparative history, ‘connected histories’, and world and global history. The second section discusses the variety of areas of enquiry where transnational perspectives have been taken up in practice, surveying a range of recent historical writing. The final section considers some of the ongoing debates about the future of transnational history approaches. As a relatively recent and still developing field of study, transnational history has been noted for the diversity of approaches it encompasses, and this essay highlights some of the ways in which this looks set to continue. -
Public History Messiah College
HIST 393: Public History Messiah College Fall 2013 instructor: James LaGrand Tuesdays & Thursdays office: Boyer 264 2:45-4:00 p.m. telephone: ext. 7381 Boyer 338 email: [email protected] office hours: Mon., Wed., & Fri., 10:00-11:00 a.m.; Thursdays, 1:20-2:35 p.m., & by apt. DESCRIPTION AND OBJECTIVES: The field of public history has emerged within the history profession over the last several decades and continues to increase in popularity in part because it has helped historians answer two questions that perpetually face them. First--How can historians find fulfilling careers in positions in which they can use their skills and training? And second--How can historians communicate and share developments within the field of history with a wider public beyond that found in college classrooms and at academic conferences? Historians should always be working toward finding answers to these two questions, and many have found the field of public history provides a unique opportunity to do so. Developments in recent years have demonstrated that the public is interested in history and continues to think about it and consume it--but not necessarily as presented by academic historians. Museums, historical theme parks, living re-enactments, television documentaries, and the like have enjoyed great popularity in recent years. Yet too often, historians in colleges and universities have allowed themselves to become ignored and irrelevant, even as history in general enjoys great popularity. Public history has the ability to improve this situation. This course in public history will be run as a seminar--with a primary focus on reading, independent work, presentations of independent work, and discussion. -
Local History
WRITING and PUBLISHING Local History A Guide for First-time Authors and Historical Societies Rosalie Triolo, Helen Doyle and Katya Johanson Writing and Publishing Local History A Guide for First-time Authors and Historical Societies Rosalie Triolo, Helen Doyle and Katya Johanson Rosalie Triolo, Helen Doyle and Katya Johanson First published in 2006 as Publishing History: A Guide for Historical Societies by Helen Doyle and Katya Johanson for the Federation of Australian Historical Societies. Wholly revised in 2017 with new chapters 5-7 by Rosalie Triolo for the Royal Historical Society of Victoria and the Federation of Australian Historical Societies, to become Writing and Publishing Local History: A Guide for First-time Authors and Historical Societies. ‘Digital Publishing’ section in chapter 2 by Way Back When Consulting. © Royal Historical Society of Victoria, Federation of Australian Historical Societies Inc. and the authors. This book is copyright. Apart from fair dealing for the purposes of private study, research, criticism or review as permitted by the Copyright Act (1968) and Copyright Amendment Act (2006), no part of this work may be stored, reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means without prior permission of the publisher. Inquiries should be made to the publisher. Royal Historical Society of Victoria, 239 A'Beckett Street, Melbourne Vic 3000 www.historyvictoria.org.au National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication entry Creator: Triolo, Rosalie, author. Title: Writing and publishing local history : a guide for fi rst-time authors and historical societies / Rosalie Triolo, Helen Doyle, Katya Johanson. ISBN: 9781875173037 (paperback) Subjects: Publishers and publishing--Australia. -
Best Practices in Public History for Undergraduate Students
Best Practices in Public History Public History for Undergraduate Students Prepared by the NCPH Curriculum and Training Committee 1, October 2009 Adopted by the NCPH Board of Directors October 2009 Introduction: Nationwide, history departments introduce public history to undergraduate students in a variety of ways. Some departments introduce public history to students as a field, subfield or research method, while other departments offer a major, minor, emphasis, concentration or certificate in public history. Still others offer a class or two on public history theories and/or practices.2 Clearly, the needs and resources of departments are as diverse as their approaches to public history. Below are some recommendations for undergraduate public history “programs” that are flexible.3 These recommendations should provide guidelines but should not be followed as a recipe for a “one-size fits all” approach to introducing undergraduates to public history. Undergraduate training in public history should be designed around the local resources available, the unique interests of department faculty, and the needs of the students. Undergraduate programs that offer public history should keep the following four basic priorities in mind: (1) Provide students with strong training in the basic skills of the historian; (2) Provide students with a solid grounding in historical content; (3) Introduce students early in their studies to the wide variety of careers that incorporate some component of public history; and (4) Encourage students to participate in field-based research, service learning, and/or internships. There are many different reasons why history departments should consider introducing public history at the undergraduate level. The number of undergraduate history majors is on the rise in departments across the country, but students graduating with history degrees and going on to graduate study in history is declining. -
Crossing Empires Taking U.S
crossing empires taking u.s. history into transimperial terrain Edited by Kristin L. Hoganson and Jay Sexton crossing empires american encounters / global interactions A series edited by Gilbert M. Joseph and Penny von Eschen This series aims to stimulate critical perspectives and fresh interpretive frameworks for scholarship on the history of the imposing global presence of the United States. Its primary concerns include the deployment and contestation of power, the construction and decon struction of cultural and po liti cal borders, the fluid meaning of intercultural encounters, and the complex interplay between the global and the local. American Encounters seeks to strengthen dialogue and collaboration between historians of U.S. international relations and area studies specialists. The series encourages scholarship based on multiarchive historical research. At the same time, it supports a recognition of the repre senta tional character of all stories about the past and promotes critical inquiry into issues of subjectivity and narrative. In the pro cess, American Encounters strives to understand the context in which meanings related to nations, cultures, and politi cal economy are continually produced, challenged, and re shaped. crossing empires taking u.s. history into transimperial terrain Edited by Kristin L. Hoganson and Jay Sexton Duke University Press Durham and London 2020 © 2020 duke university press All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of Amer i ca on acid free paper ∞. Designed by Courtney Leigh Baker Typeset in Whitman and Helvetica LT Std by Westchester Publishing Ser vices Library of Congress CataloginginPublication Data Names: Hoganson, Kristin L., editor. | Sexton, Jay, [date] editor. -
The Making of Ethnicity in Southern Bessarabia: Tracing the Histories Of
The Making of Ethnicity in Southern Bessarabia: Tracing the histories of an ambiguous concept in a contested land Dissertation Zur Erlangung des Doktorgrades der Philosophie (Dr. phil.) vorgelegt der Philosophischen Fakultät I Sozialwissenschaften und historische Kulturwissenschaften der Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, von Herrn Simon Schlegel geb. am 23. April 1983 in Rorschach (Schweiz) Datum der Verteidigung 26. Mai 2016 Gutachter: PD Dr. phil. habil. Dittmar Schorkowitz, Dr. Deema Kaneff, Prof. Dr. Gabriela Lehmann-Carli Contents Deutsche Zusammenfassung ...................................................................................................................................... iii 1. Introduction .............................................................................................................................................................. 1 1.1. Questions and hypotheses ......................................................................................................................... 4 1.2. History and anthropology, some methodological implications ................................................. 6 1.3. Locating the field site and choosing a name for it ........................................................................ 11 1.4. A brief historical outline .......................................................................................................................... 17 1.5. Ethnicity, natsional’nost’, and nationality: definitions and translations ............................ -
Tyrrell, Ian. "Acclimatisation and Environmental Renovation: Australian Perspectives on George Perkins Marsh." Environment and History 10, No
The White Horse Press Full citation: Tyrrell, Ian. "Acclimatisation and Environmental Renovation: Australian Perspectives on George Perkins Marsh." Environment and History 10, no. 2, "The Nature of G. P. Marsh: Tradition and Historical Judgement" special issue (May 2004): 153–67. http://www.environmentandsociety.org/node/3193. Rights: All rights reserved. © The White Horse Press 2004. Except for the quotation of short passages for the purpose of criticism or review, no part of this article may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical or other means, including photocopying or recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission from the publishers. For further information please see http://www.whpress.co.uk. Acclimatisation and Environmental Renovation: Australian Perspectives on George Perkins Marsh IAN TYRRELL School of History University of New South Wales Sydney NSW 2052, Australia Email: [email protected] ABSTRACT This article xplores the global dimensions of the thought of George Perkins Marsh and his Man and Nature (1864). It argues that Marsh was not simply influenced by American versus European contrasts in environmental change, nor was his work based only on conservation ideas, being influenced also by the examples of acclimatisation movements within the British empire settlement colonies. He incorporated material on acclimatisation from Australia into his major work, and his acceptance, with reservations, of aspects of acclimatisation practice, for example global eucalyptus plant transfers, was a key factor making his work influential within those settlement colonies after publication of Man and Nature. This global context reinforces the sense of Marsh as a thinker of his times, embedded in a larger and older discourse over the fate of forests and other natural resources. -
Wartime Political Ambition Behind One Image of a Dam In
WARTIME POLITICAL AMBITION BEHIND ONE IMAGE OF A DAM IN AUSTRALIA IS DEVELOPING A DUST BOWL (1943): US/AUSTRALIAN FILM IMAGERY, ENVIRONMENT, AND NATIONALIST STORYTELLING 12JANETTE-SUSAN BAILEY Abstract This paper introduces Australia is Developing a Dust Bowl, an Australian film made by Ken G. Hall for the national filmmaker Cinesound Productions during World War II.1 It also introduces an image of a scaled-down reproduction of Australia’s Woronora Dam, which featured in several films of the period. The dam, this article argues, represents a broad set of ideas, many of them influenced by US conservation projects, that were being promoted in the print, film, and broadcast media of the time, and the postwar political visions driving these ideas. To identify then examine the meaning of the US ideas located in Hall’s film, this paper takes a cultural and transnational approach in order to develop new insights into political and environmental history. Using this approach demonstrates that Hall’s film fuses aspects of US and Australian national myth, traces of US Depression-era and wartime hopes and fears, irrigation mythology, and technological optimism. It shows that Australia’s wartime politicians were determined to use this set of ideas to drive debate, gain traction, and bolster their credentials in pursuit of a nation- building, postwar water conservation scheme. I argue that Hall’s image of a dam in Australia is Developing a Dust Bowl represents the determination of the Australian state of New South Wales to dominate the nation’s major postwar development scheme by diverting the waters of the Snowy River westward and expand the capacity of Burrinjuck Dam and develop the Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area.2 1 Drought Grips Riverina is the first title on the reel and features opening credits.Australia is Developing a Dust Bowl is the second title on the reel, and although there is no second set of opening credits, because it has its own opening title and presents a new narrative, I treat the two as separate films for the purposes of discussion. -
The First Leicester Thesis in English Local History William Farrell 14 July 2017 Url
The first Leicester thesis in English Local History William Farrell 14 July 2017 Url: https://elhleics.omeka.net/firstthesis For the first blog post, it seemed appropriate to look at the first thesis in the collection L. A. Parker’s Enclosure in Leicestershire, 1485-1607 awarded in 1948. Leslie Arthur Parker (1917-2005) studied History at University College Leicester from 1936 to 1948. He was clearly a good student, winning the honours prize in 1938 and 1939. Like many current students, he lived around the Narborough Road area, first on Cambridge Street and then on Mavis Avenue. He registered for an MA in Economic History in 1939, but he was not awarded the second degree until 1946/47. His doctorate came the following year. This quick succession of awards is unusual - researching a PhD in a year seems impossible! Perhaps Parker was working on this research through the Second World War, even if he was not formally registered with the University. Parker's choice of subject suggests that W.G. Hoskins was his supervisor, although this is not recorded on the bibliographic record, or on the thesis itself. His topic - enclosure - was the process by which open fields were converted into pasture by landholders, and the common rights of villagers were eroded. It has long been seen as a key development in the agriculture and landscape of England. Hoskins was also working on the history of rural Leicestershire through the 1940s and 1950s, culminating in his famous study of Wigston Magna. Both cited each other’s work and Hoskins thanked Parker in the acknowledgements to The Midlands Peasant.