Working Historians

Alyce Sadongei is the Program Manager for the American Indian Language Development Institute. In this episode, Alyce discusses her training and career, and the role that museums and other institutions play in the preservation of American Indian culture. This episode’s recommendations: Camille Callison, Loriene Roy, and Gretchen LeCheminant, eds., Indigenous Notions of Ownership and Libraries, Archives and Museums (IFLA Publications, 2016), https://www.degruyter.com/view/product/429232 Alyce Sadongei, Old Poisons, New Problems: A Museum Resource for Managing Contaminated Cultural Materials (AltaMira Press, 2005), https://rowman.com/ISBN/9780759105157/Old-Poisons-New-Problems-A-Museum-Resource-for-Managing-Contaminated-Cultural-Materials Arizona State Museum: http://www.statemuseum.arizona.edu/ Kevin Kerslake, dir., Bad Reputation (2018): https://www.badreputationfilm.com/ Air and Space Museum: https://airandspace.si.edu/ National Museum of African American History and Culture: https://nmaahc.si.edu/ The

Maya Rook, a historian, artist, and adjunct instructor with Southern New Hampshire University, provides critical insight into the "Origins of the Witch Trials in Europe." Fun fact: she is the direct descendant of a confessed witch from the Salem witch trials!

Anna Leshchenko is a museum specialist and board member of the International Committee for Museology. In this episode we talk to Anna about her academic and professional background, her experiences with ICOFOM, and her determination to incorporate data analytics and other scientific principles into the study of museums. This episode’s recommendations: GULAG History State Museum: http://www.gmig.ru/ Anna Leshchenko, “What does the Future of Museums Look Like?” Aksenov Family Foundation (2016): http://aksenovff.com/en/what-does-the-future-of-museums-look-like/ Museum of Ice Cream: https://www.museumoficecream.com/ Alfred W. Crosby’s passing: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/alfred-crosby-environmental-historian-of-columbian-exchange-dies-at-87/2018/04/05/d16963e2-38de-11e8-9c0a-85d477d9a226_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.f6128da46615 Rob Denning and James Fennessy can be reached at workinghistorians@gmail.com. Follow us on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/FilibusterHist.

Deborah Ziska teaches for Johns Hopkins University, is a board member for the United States and Marketing and Public Relations Committees of the International Council of Museums and for the Friends of the Art Museum of the Americas for the Organization of American States, and is the former Chief of Communications for the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. In this episode, we discuss Deborah’s career and current museum projects she is involved with in Latin America. This episode’s recommendations: ICOM website: http://www.icomus.org/ Favela Museum, Rio de Janeiro: https://www.museudefavela.org/ Turquoise Mountain: Artists Transforming Afghanistan: https://www.si.edu/Exhibitions/Turquoise-Mountain-Artists-Transforming-Afghanistan-5975 National Memorial for Peace and Justice: https://museumandmemorial.eji.org/ Assassin’s Creed Origins: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/16/arts/assassins-creed-origins-education.html Rob Denning and James Fennessy can be reached at workinghistorians@gmail.com. Follow

Mónica Risnicoff de Gorgas is a museum specialist, Board Member for the International Committee for Museology, and an instructor at the Universidad Nacional de Tucumán. In this episode, we discuss her career in a variety of museums and important new trends in museology, including an increasing emphasis on diversity. This episode’s recommendations: Zvetan Todoroff, Conquest of America: The Question of the Other (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1999). http://www.oupress.com/ECommerce/Book/Detail/1079/the%20conquest%20of%20america Museo Nacional Estancia Jesuítica de Alta Gracia y Casa del Virrey: https://museoliniers.cultura.gob.ar/ Risnicoff de Gorgas, M. (2001). “Reality as Illusion, the Historic Houses that Become Museums.” Museum International, 53 (2), 10-15. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14680033/53/2 Risnicoff de Gorgas, M. (2016). "Afro-Descendent heritage and its unacknowledged legacy in Latin American museum." En B.L.Murphy (coord.), Museums, Ethics and Cultural Heritage (pp. 296-303). Ne

David de la Torre is the Curator of Exhibitions at the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco and a Senior Museum Associate at Community Arts International. In this episode of Filibustering Museology, we discuss David’s career, the development of museology over the past four decades, and the ways that students can enter museum-related careers. This episode’s recommendations: Richard N. Bolles, What Color Is Your Parachute? A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers (Ten Speed Press, 1970 and later), http://www.parachutebook.com/ Mission Dolores Basilica: https://www.missiondolores.org/ John Martini, Sutro’s Glass Palace: The Story of Sutro Baths (Bodega Bay, Calif.: Hole in the Head Press, 2014): http://www.holeintheheadpress.com/sutro.html “The Race Issue,” National Geographic (April 2018): http://press.nationalgeographic.com/2018/03/12/the-race-issue-national-geographic-magazine-april-2018/ 

Dr. Bruno Brulon Soares is a Professor of Museology at Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro and is Vice President of the International Committee for Museology (ICOFOM). In this episode of Filibustering Museology we talk about Bruno’s academic career and his research into experimental and community museums. This episode’s recommendations: Museum of Removals in Rio de Janeiro: https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2016/05/rios-museum-of-removals-shows-the-human-cost-of-th.html Bruno Brulon Soares and Anaildo Bernardo Baraçal, Stránský: uma ponte Brno — Brasil / Stránský: a bridge Brno — Brazil (ICOFOM, 2017): http://network.icom.museum/fileadmin/user_upload/minisites/icofom/images/Icofom_Stransky_couv_cahierFINAL.pdf Bruno Brulon Soares, História da Museologia [The History of Museology]: https://historiadamuseologia.blog/ Brooklyn Museum controversy: https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/brooklyn-museum-white-curator-african-art_us_5abc09e6e4b06409775cd2d7  

LauriAnn Deaver presents "The Mormon Response to the 1976 Teton Dam Collapse"

Dr. François Mairesse is a professor at the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle in Paris and is president of the International Committee for Museology. In this episode of Filibustering Museology we discuss Dr. Mairesse’s background, the various symposia hosted by ICOFOM, and the changing definitions of “museum.” This episode’s recommendations: ICOFOM Study Series: http://network.icom.museum/icofom/publications/icofom-study-series/ Defining the Museum in the 21st Century: The ICOFOM Symposiums: http://network.icom.museum/icofom/meetings/previous-conferences/defining-the-museum/ Digital Harlem: Everyday Life 1915-1930: http://digitalharlem.org/ Dylan Ruediger, “The AHA Jobs Report: The 2016-17 Data Obscure as Much as They Reveal,” Perspectives on History (February, 2018), https://www.historians.org/publications-and-directories/perspectives-on-history/march-2018/the-aha-jobs-report-the-2016%E2%80%9317-data-obscure-as-much-as-they-reveal 

Dr. Gillian Glaes presents African Political Activism in Post-Colonial France: State Surveillance and Social Welfare.

Dr. Gillian Glaes is a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Montana at Missoula. In this episode of Filibustering History we talk about her background, her adventures in accessing classified documents in a foreign country, and the book publication process. 

Katherine Perrotta presents "Nineteenth Century Rosa Parks: The Legacy of Antebellum Civil Rights Activist Elizabeth Jennings."

Lauriann Deaver is a history instructor for Southern New Hampshire University who recently recorded a conversation about her research on the collapse of the Teton Dam in eastern Idaho in 1976, and the response to that collapse from the state and federal governments and from local civic and religious organizations. That conversation will be available separately as an episode of History Soundbites. In this episode of Filibustering History, Rob and Lauriann discuss her research, her background, and her future endeavors. This episode’s recommendations: Edward Baptist, The Half has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism (Basic books, 2016). https://www.basicbooks.com/titles/edward-e-baptist/the-half-has-never-been-told/9780465097685/ Andrés Reséndez, The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016). https://www.hmhco.com/shop/books/The-Other-Slavery/9780544947108 Southern Poverty Law Center’s “Teaching Hard History” Report: https://

Jeffrey Henry is a recent graduate of the Master of Arts program in public history at Southern New Hampshire University and is currently working on projects for a number of institutions, including the Fruitlands Museum in Massachusetts and the American Antiquarianism Society. In this episode of Filibustering History we talk about his background, networking with museum professionals, and digitizing old periodicals for the AAS.

Dr. Joe Faykosh presents "A Party in Peril: Franklin Roosevelt, the Democratic Party, and the Circular Letter of 1924"

Josh Peabody is a Senior Archaeologist in the Sacramento branch of Stantec Consulting Services. In this episode of Filibustering History we talk about his background, the history of the field of cultural resources management, and opportunities for historians to work in that field. This episode’s recommendation: Superfight: The History Deck https://store.skybound.com/products/superfight-the-history-deck 

Dr. Erin Greenwald is the Curator of Programs for the New Orleans Museum of Art. In this episode of Filibustering History, Erin talks about her academic and professional background, her experience planning and curating the Purchased Lives exhibit at the Historic New Orleans Collection, and how public history exhibits and institutions respond to changing political and social climates. This episode’s recommendations: The Transatlantic Slave Trade Database: http://www.slavevoyages.org/ I, Tonya (film): http://www.itonyamovie.com/ Fire and Fury books mixup: http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2018/01/08/toronto-profs-fire-and-fury-book-now-a-bestseller-thanks-to-donald-trump_a_23327825/ The New Orleans Museum of Art’s website is https://noma.org/ 

An intermission of sorts, wherein Rob discusses some of the interesting things coming soon for the podcast and Southern New Hampshire University’s online history program. Of particular note is an upcoming symposium on “Defining the Museum of the 21st Century: Evolving Multiculturalism in Museums in the United States,” which SNHU is hosting in conjunction with the International Conference for Museology on September 14, 2018. Links: “Defining the Museum of the 21st Century” Symposium website: https://spark.adobe.com/page/s8rn34Jgnohic/ History Soundbites Podcast: https://soundcloud.com/user-399142700/sets/history-soundbites Filibustering History Twitter feed: https://twitter.com/FilibusterHist Filibustering History YouTube Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2BOWpayQhZOQM576L6qxG2LPF8ou8Nhm Rob Denning can be reached at snhuhistory@gmail.com or r.denning@snhu.edu. James Fennessy can be reached at j.fennessy@snhu.edu.

Dr. Everett Dague is the Command Historian for the U.S. Army Sergeants Major Academy at Fort Bliss, Texas, and is an instructor at SNHU. In this episode of Filibustering History, James and Rob talk to Everett about his academic and professional background, the importance of the USASMA to the modern Army, and a bit on the history of non-commissioned officers in the modern military. This episode’s recommendations: The NCO Leadership Center of Excellence and U.S. Army Sergeants Major Academy’s Non-Commissioned Officer Heritage and Education Center: http://usasma.armylive.dodlive.mil/united-states-army-hertiage-center-of-the-noncommissioned-officer/ Douglas Skopp, Shadows Walking: A Novel (2010): https://www.amazon.com/Shadows-Walking-Douglas-R-Skopp/dp/1439231990 Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, 2 vols. (1885): https://www.gutenberg.org/files/4367/4367-h/4367-h.htm Slate interview with Ron Chernow on his Grant: http://www.slate.com/articles/podcasts/i_have_to_ask/2017/11/ron_chernow_on_alexa

Ryan Tripp teaches for Southern New Hampshire and other institutions and he hosts a podcast for the New Books Network’s Native American Studies channel. In this episode of Filibustering History we talk about his background, his research interests, and his presentation on Matthew Robinson for the History Soundbites podcast. This episode’s recommendations: A dozen or so books from Ryan! Ciaran O’Neill, Catholics of Consequence: Transnational Education, Social Mobility, and the Irish Catholic Elite, 1850-1900 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014), https://global.oup.com/academic/product/catholics-of-consequence-9780198707714?lang=en&cc=us. Arthur Quinn, The Rivals: William Gwin, David Broderick, and the Birth of California (New York: Crown Publishers, 1994; Lincoln, Nebraska: Bison Books, 1997), http://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/bison-books/9780803288515/. Dr. Tripp's podcast episodes are listed at http://newbooksnetwork.com/?s=ryan+tripp