FEATURED JOB: Assistant Professor in African American History in the Long Nineteenth Century [Tenure Track] Department of History - Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania
https://networks.h-net.org/jobs/68899/bryn-mawr-college-african-american-history
FEATURED JOB: Assistant Professor in African American History in the Long Nineteenth Century [Tenure Track] Department of History - Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania
https://networks.h-net.org/jobs/68899/bryn-mawr-college-african-american-history
"In 1978, when [Václav] Havel writes of Czechoslovakia, he is also writing of America in the future:
'Because the regime is captive to its own lies, it must falsify everything. It falsifies the past, it falsifies the present, and it falsifies the future.'”
~ Heidi Cuda
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This is very welcome news in the face of Trumpist depredations of US public data.
https://lil.law.harvard.edu/blog/2025/01/30/preserving-public-u-s-federal-data/
"In recent months the Harvard Law School [@harvard_law] Library Innovation Lab [@harvardlil] has created a data vault to download, sign as authentic, and make available copies of public government data that is most valuable to researchers, scholars, civil society and the public at large across every field. To begin, we have collected major portions of the datasets tracked by data.gov, federal #Github repositories, and #PubMed...."
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Hello, and thank you for your interest in participating in this survey! The following questionnaire is designed to investigate certain trends related to how and why archaeologists often move among the various subfields of archaeology here in the United States. These trends will be explored in a paper that will be presented in an organized session at the upcoming Society for Historical Archaeology's Annual Meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana (session and paper abstracts below). Your responses will be submitted and accepted anonymously, but please feel free to only answer the questions you feel comfortable answering. This questionnaire should take between 20-45 minutes to complete depending on the depth of your answers. Thank you for your time! Disclaimer: These questions are in no way a reflection of the views and values of the authors' associated institutions and should be regarded as lines of inquiry that the authors are interested in as individuals. Session Title: Breaking Free from the (Institutional) Matrix: Archaeological Career Pathways In and Between Academia, CRM, Non-Profit, and Museum Spheres Organizers: Kimberly Kasper ([email protected]), Claire Norton ([email protected]), Katharine Reinhart ([email protected]) Abstract: In recent years, the discipline of historical archaeology has made concerted efforts to break down both perceived and real boundaries that have been built between academic, cultural resource/heritage management, non-profit, and museum spheres. Yet, professionals from each of these archaeologically-based careers often feel siloed as they are encouraged by employers to focus their portfolios on increasingly specialized research, policy, teaching, and community engagements. Newly minted and established professionals are equally influenced by this institutional gatekeeping, as they make choices to either stay on a given trajectory or try to forge new pathways. This session seeks to highlight and offer guidance to historical archaeologists attempting to weave collaborative fluidity, methodological ingenuity, and interdisciplinary practices into the tapestry of their careers. The diverse and creative set of individuals presenting will unpack the complementary yet alternative steps they have taken to center the relevancy and purpose of archaeology in the 21st century Paper Title: There and Back Again: When the Archaeological Career Path Turns into a Journey Authors: Katharine R. Reinhart and M. Claire Norton Abstract: The rate at which historical archaeology is expanding in today’s world pushes many archaeologists to feel rushed into finding and filling niches after graduation. As a result, real world work experience quickly reveals that careers in archaeology are very rarely a straight paved path. Often, these experiences prove to be a relatively unkempt trail complete with scenic views, unmarked discoveries, and (occasionally) dragons. For the authors of this paper, our combined twenty years of experience in the academic, cultural resource management, and federal fields have taught us the benefit of taking the long way there, elsewhere, and back again. In this presentation, we will discuss how our journeys in archaeology taught us when to specialize, when to shift gears, and the difficulties in translating between academic and professional spaces, while bringing the voices of other professional explorers into the conversation.