Working Historians

By Robert Denning and James Fennessy

Working Historians is a podcast series that showcases the work and careers of historians in a wide variety of career fields. We hope to introduce history students and the general public to the career ... more

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August 23, 2018 Ann Davis - Museum Specialist, Professor, and ICOFOM Board Member
Dr. Ann Davis is the past president and current board member of ICOFOM, former director of the Nickle Arts Museum at the University of Calgary, and professor of museum studies at a variety of institutions across Canada. Today we discuss Ann’s academic and professional background, her experiences as director of art museums, and her expectations for how museums will change in the twenty-first century.
This episode’s recommendations:
Ann Davis and Kerstin Smeds, eds., Visiting the Visitor: An Enquiry into the Visitor Business in Museums (Columbia University Press, 2016): https://cup.columbia.edu/book/visiting-the-visitor/9783837632897
Nickle Arts Museum: https://nickle.ucalgary.ca/
Winnipeg Art Gallery: https://www.wag.ca/
Toledo Museum of Art: http://www.toledomuseum.org/
Rob Denning and James Fennessy can be reached at [email protected]. Follow us on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/FilibusterHist.
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42min
August 10, 2018 Alyce Sadongei - Program Manager, American Indian Language Development Institute
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 American Indian Language Development Institute’s website is http://aildi.arizona.edu/. Rob Denning and James Fennessy can be reached at [email protected]. Follow us on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/FilibusterHist.
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36min
August 05, 2018 Maya Rook presents "The Origins of the Witch Trials in Europe"
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!
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41min
July 27, 2018 Anna Leshchenko - Museologist and ICOFOM Board Member
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 [email protected]. Follow us on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/FilibusterHist.
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35min
July 12, 2018 Deborah Ziska - Lecturer, Johns Hopkins University
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 [email protected]. Follow us on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/FilibusterHist.
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39min
June 29, 2018 Mónica Risnicoff de Gorgas – Museologist and ICOFOM Board Member
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). New York,NY: Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/Museums-Ethics-and-Cultural-Heritage/ICOM/p/book/9781138676329
The Declaration of the Round Table of Santiago de Chile in 1972: http://unesdoc.unesco.org/Ulis/cgi-bin/ulis.pl?catno=7600&set=49E8AF01_1_43&gp=0&lin=1
UNESCO Slave Route Project: http://www.unesco.org/new/en/social-and-human-sciences/themes/slave-route/spotlight/preservation-of-memorial-sites-and-places/wh-properties-directly-linked-to-slavery/
Seth Denbo, “Online Only: What the Proposed Virtual Obama Presidential Library Means for Historians,” Perspectives on History, 56:3 (March 2018), 29-31. https://www.historians.org/publications-and-directories/perspectives-on-history/march-2018/online-only-what-the-proposed-virtual-obama-presidential-library-means-for-historians
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39min
June 13, 2018 David de la Torre - Curator of Exhibitions, Jewish Community Center of SF
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/
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51min
May 31, 2018 Bruno Brulon Soares - Professor of Museology, Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro
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
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40min
May 16, 2018 LauriAnn Deaver presents "The Mormon Response to the 1976 Teton Dam Collapse"
LauriAnn Deaver presents "The Mormon Response to the 1976 Teton Dam Collapse"
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39min
May 09, 2018 François Mairesse – Professor of Museology, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris, and ICOFOM President
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
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FAQs about Working Historians:

How many episodes does Working Historians have?

The podcast currently has 165 episodes available.