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Erin Bartram
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Historian of religion & gender in the 19th c US, drinker of tea in the 21st c US. Museum educator. Founder & editor at Contingent Magazine. Former academic.
"Twenty years later, I am living through the making of the Iraq War as history."
Our latest, from Michael Brenes. https://contingentmagazine.org/2023/03/20/a-known-and-unknown-war/
Had some chats about this and that if you're interested.
https://www.americanprestigepod.com/p/e83-the-decline-of-the-history-profession#details
https://www.americanprestigepod.com/p/e83-the-decline-of-the-history-profession#details
E83 - The Decline of the History Profession w/ Erin Bartram
Listen now (48 min) | Danny and Derek welcome to the program Erin Bartram, school programs coordinator at the Mark Twain House and co-founder of Contingent Magazine, for a discussion of the decline of the history profession and humanities programs in general. They discuss the effect of consistent loss of knowledge production on a given field, the American Historical Association’s (AHA) response to the state of the academic job market, organizing in academia, moving on to non-academic fields after leaving the academy, and more.
Cassandra GoodIf you want to understand the incredible disjuncture between the old guard of historians and those on the front lines seriously seeking to stop the collapse of the profession, read this account of outgoing AHA president James Sweet's speech https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/08/arts/american-historical-association-james-sweet.html
and then @erin_bartram's talk
https://contingentmagazine.org/2023/01/07/a-profession-if-you-can-keep-it/
Many (not all) tenured senior profs are apparently content to keep debating methodology while the profession burns. It isn't just professionally irresponsible; it's unethical. The luxury of being able to have those debates is enabled by inequitable labor conditions and a failure to take responsibility for training grad students for nonexistent jobs.
"Imagined meritocracies mean little to extractive institutions."
My remarks from today's #aha23 panel "Labor and Compensation in the Historical Profession"
https://contingentmagazine.org/2023/01/07/a-profession-if-you-can-keep-it/
If you like mysteries, this piece has *two* detectives working a century and a half apart: @Dpmckenzie and Abner Doubleday! https://contingentmagazine.org/2022/09/25/dentist-defrauded-governments-historian-i/
Another small plea: if you like @contingent_mag's stuff, PLEASE share it here and elsewhere. I know it's in poor taste to mention it on here, but stuff simply does not spread on this platform the way it does on Twitter. The exodus of historians to this platform has significantly depressed our readership and it's very distressing, to be honest.
Over here on my personal account, some straight talk about donations to @contingent_mag: 98% of our budget this year came from monthly givers, and our monthly giving rate has (understandably) dropped. We can’t publish quite as much now. If you aren’t able to give monthly but want to support, consider a one-time donation. https://donorbox.org/contingent-magazine
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I love that we have 200 people willing to give every month to keep us going, but it makes me feel a little weird that 200 people are solely supporting this thing that is read and taught by hundreds of thousands of people each year. We are not backed by any university, archive, or institution. We pay more than many sites that are. I won’t shy away from pointing that out because it’s central to our mission and we are proud of it. But it means we only exist if you want us to.
Over here on my personal account, some straight talk about donations to @contingent_mag: 98% of our budget this year came from monthly givers, and our monthly giving rate has (understandably) dropped. We can’t publish quite as much now. If you aren’t able to give monthly but want to support, consider a one-time donation. https://donorbox.org/contingent-magazine
Contingent Magazine | Contingent, Inc. (Powered by Donorbox)
Contingent Magazine is built on three principles: that history is for everyone, that every way of doing history is worthwhile, and that historians should be paid for their work. To continue publishing high-quality history that honors all three of ...