Working Historians

Marc Reyes and Bill Black are editors of Contingent Magazine, a non-profit online publication dedicated to the radical idea that historians deserve to be paid for their work. In this episode we discuss their academic and professional backgrounds and also talk about the magazine itself, which invites pitches from all historians that may not fit with more traditional academic history publications.

This episode’s recommendations:

You’re Wrong About… podcast

Kings, Kitchens, and their Stories

John O’Malley, Urethane Revolution: The Birth of Skate, San Diego 1975 (The History Press, 2019)

Karin Wulf, “What Naomi Wolf and Cokie Roberts Teach Us About the Need for Historians,” Washington Post, June 11, 2019

Henry Crawford is the retired Curator of History for the Museum of Texas Tech University and is currently affiliated with the Science Spectrum in Lubbock, Texas. He is the owner and operator of History by Choice, where he serves as a living history consultant.

This episode’s recommendations:

The Association for Living History, Farm and Agricultural Museums

Museum of Texas Tech University 

Kennedy Space Center Visitor Center 

Dr. Adrian Calamel is a professor at Finger Lakes Community College. In this five-episode series, Dr. Calamel is discussing the recent Arab Spring phenomenon in the Middle East. In this final episode, we discuss developments in Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen, Libya, and Syria up to the present day.

Further Readings

Books

1. Eric Trager, Arab Fall: How the Muslim Brotherhood Won and Lost Egypt in 891 Days (Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2016).

2. Fouad Ajami, The Syrian Rebellion (Stanford: Hoover Institution Press, 2012).

3. Robert F. Worth, A Rage for Order: The Middle East in Turmoil, from Tahrir Square to ISIS (New York: Macmillan, 2016).

4. Ibrahim Fraihat, Unfinished Revolutions: Yemen, Libya, and Tunisia after the Arab Spring (Yale University Press, 2016).

5. Christopher Phillips, The Battle for Syria: International Rivalry in the New Middle East (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016).

6. Peter Cole and Brian McQuinn, The Libyan Revolution and its Aftermath (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015).

Articles

1. Anthony H. Cordesman, “Stability and Security in Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, and the Rest of the MENA Region”, Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), Nov. 8, 2011

2. Fouad Ajami, “The Arab Spring at One A Year of Living Dangerously” Foreign Affairs, Mar 1, 2012.

3. “Planning for a Post-Gadhafi Libya”, Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), July 25, 2011

4. Kamal Eldin Osman Salih, “The Roots and Causes of the 2011 Arab Uprisings” Arab Studies Quarterly, Vol. 35, No. 2 (Spring 2013), pp. 184-206

5. Fouad Ajami, “Tracking the Arab Spring: The Best Day After a Bad Emperor is the First,” Center for International and Regional Issues” CIRS Newsletter, Fall 2011, No. 11

6. DB Research Deutsche Bank, “Two years of Arab Spring Where are we now? What’s next?” Emerging Markets, Jan. 25, 2013

7. Eric Trager, “Egypt's Looming Competitive Theocracy” The Hudson Institute, Dec. 27, 2012

8. Alexis Arief, Carla E. Humud “Political Transition in Tunisia” Congressional Research Service, Feb. 10, 2015 R

Dr. Adrian Calamel is a professor at Finger Lakes Community College. In this five-episode series, Dr. Calamel is discussing the recent Arab Spring phenomenon in the Middle East. In this fourth episode, he discusses how the Arab Spring played out in Syria. 

Dr. Adrian Calamel is a professor at Finger Lakes Community College. In this five-episode series, Dr. Calamel is discussing the recent Arab Spring phenomenon in the Middle East. In this third episode, he discusses the event’s significance for Yemen and Libya. 

Dr. Adrian Calamel is a professor at Finger Lakes Community College. In this five-episode series, Dr. Calamel is discussing the recent Arab Spring phenomenon in the Middle East. In this second episode, he discusses the event’s significance for Tunisia and Egypt. 

Dr. Adrian Calamel teaches history at Finger Lakes Community College. In this five-episode series, Dr. Calamel is discussing the recent Arab Spring phenomenon in the Middle East. In this first episode, he discusses the overall timeline and significance for the Arab Spring throughout the region. 

Shannon Lange is the Curator for Blocks to Bricks in Schaumburg, Illinois and a recent graduate of the SNHU graduate history program with a concentration in public history. In this episode we talk about Shannon’s academic and professional careers.

This episode’s recommendations:

Blocks to Bricks: Constructing Imagination

Michael Stephenson, The Last Full Measure: How Soldiers Die in Battle (Broadway Books, 2013)

Sara English is a graduate assistant and Vice President of Public Relations for the Graduate Student Advisory Council at Eastern Illinois University. In this episode we talk about Sara’s efforts to find out what career-related resources and opportunities exist for graduates of MA History programs.

Resources:

American Historical Association “MA in History” Community (requires AHA membership)

Dr. Stephanie Averill teaches in the graduate history program at Southern New Hampshire University, specializing in historiography and the capstone thesis. In this episode, Dr. Averill is presenting “Our Boys: The First Status of Forces Treaties and the Problem of Jurisdiction.”