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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/
@steamworkgroup This actually ended up being about my old quit lit more than anything more recent, but based on my knowledge of what I said, I affirm your choice is a good one!
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.
@cgoodhistorian ❤️ and yikes what a contrast! I have seen plenty of people complaining that their colleagues talk about labor issues on social media and wouldn't it be nicer just to talk about doing history. Like the rest of us wouldn't prefer to be talking about our research and methodology all the time. We do this in the hopes that might be possible in future!
"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/
@lizl_genealogy Oh, you're not being condescending! I'm the only member of the editorial team manning all of these new accounts, so I was kind of waiting to see how the followers in each place interacted before developing a strategy for each site. Boosting doesn't seem as common here as I would have expected and I'm wondering if the inability to QT makes that approach less appealing to a group of folks who, let's face it, love commenting!
@lizl_genealogy I think that's absolutely part of it. But I also think "discovery" functions in really different ways on different platforms as well. I have gotten more traction with the magazine on Post, where almost no one following us even knew about us before this whole upheaval.
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/
