Category: What’s New?

We are pleased to announce a new Graduate Program in History Fellowship that offers financial support and full-tuition* to students for two years. This program is described below along with other graduate funding.

Graduate Program in History Fellowship: These fellowships are awarded on a competitive basis to incoming students. It covers tuition plus $5000 stipend per semester for up to 4 semesters and requires students to perform 150 hours of work per semester in an experiential learning program overseen by the graduate program director. Continuing funding is dependant upon maintaining a GPA of 3.5 or higher, making adequate progress toward degree completion, and satisfactorily fulfilling the experiential learning requirement. The award cannot be used in conjunction with other awards such as the Swann Fellowship or Eagleton Fellowship).

 

User Experience for Public Historians
May 12, 2016, 9:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m.
Rutgers University-Camden
Fine Arts 217 (CoLab), Digital Studies Center

For questions, contact Tamara Gaskell, tamara.gaskell@rutgers.edu or 856-225-6878.

Sponsored by the Mid-Atlantic Regional Center for the Humanities and the Digital Studies Center, Rutgers University-Camden
Registration required, register by May 1
 This workshop will cover the fundamentals of UX, why it matters, and ways to convince others in your organization to invest in this process. We’ll detail a typical UX journey and common methodologies that are useful for museum professionals, from user research and analysis to rapid prototyping and testing—including lean UX techniques you can use with limited time and money. In addition to practicing hands-on skills as a group through a series of practical activities, workshop participants will receive recommendations for books, articles, and other resources to explore further.

Telling Untold Histories is New Jersey’s annual unconference on public history, museums, cultural heritage and education. It will be held at Rutgers Newark on May 13, 2016.  For more information go to https://untoldhistories.wordpress.com/

Temple University’s public history graduate students, along with other students in the area, are hosting a networking event (PubComm) for students, interns, and others interested in next steps toward work in public history.  Please consider joining us next Friday at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.

 If you are not familiar with PubComm, it stands for Public History Community Forum, and typically involves a half day of dialogue and camaraderie among fellow travelers from the region’s many educational programs that support public historical work (e.g. museum studies, history, archives, etc.). The idea is to figure out what everyone’s working on, talk about hot issues in the field, and more-or-less have a good time. 

PubComm 2016 will be held from 9am-12pm on Friday, April 15th, at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. Light refreshments will be served.

Please browse the website, share our flyer, and sign up for this fun, FREE event!

Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/pubcomm-2016-tickets-23062750307?aff=eac2

Course registration for the fall 2016 semester begins next week. I invite all of you to make an appointment to see me if you have questions about the courses and your schedule for completing your degree. If you plan to take the graduate internship course you must meet with me to get a special permission number and to review your internship plans.

The course schedule for fall is:

Monday: Readings in US History 1945-Present (N.B. This course         counts for the Global track and requirement), Professor Kapur

Tuesday: Craft of History, Professor Thomas

Wednesday: Readings in American History, 1820-1898, Professor          Shankman

Thursday: Research in American History, 1898-1945 (N.B. To               register for this course you must have taken the Readings in        American History, 1898-1945), Professor Epstein

           Issues in Public History, Professor Mires