We are pleased to announce that the MA in Public History has fourth track: Global History added to our existing tracks in American History, Public History and Legal History.
The curricular requirements for each track can be found here: https://history.camden.rutgers.edu/graduate-program/degree-requirements/
For more information, contact graduate program director Professor Andrew Shankman at shankman@camden.rutgers.edu
The Mid-Atlantic Regional Center for the Humanities (MARCH) and National Park Service, along with Rutgers-Camden History Department and Rutgers-Camden Career Center invites you to two free events on Wednesday, November 6, 2013.
PROGRAM: Careers in the National Parks Service (Lunch provided) Executive Meeting Room, Campus Center Wednesday, November 6, 12:20-1:00 p.m. and
FORUM: Scholarship and Partnerships: The State of History in the National Parks Rutgers-Camden Campus Center Wednesday, November 6, 1:30-5 p.m.
What can you do with a degree in history? Come to the National Park Service’s career panel during the free period (12:20-1:00pm) on November 6, in the Executive Meeting Room in the Campus Center. Dominic Cardea, the Training and Development Program Manager for the North East Region will discuss building a career in the National Park Service, and answer questions from attendees. A free lunch will be provided to registered guests. You are also invited to attend the forum, Scholarship and Partnership: The State of History in the National Parks, to be held from 1:30-5:00pm, in the Multi-Purpose Room in the Campus Center. The forum will explore how all of us, visitors, park professionals, scholars, and students, can work together to shape a deeper, understanding and appreciation of history in the national parks. A reception will follow, with opportunities to talk with NPS and public humanities professionals, as well as area scholars.
Both events are free, but require registration. https://camlaw.rutgers.edu/webapps/payment/register.php?event_id=45
Visit the conference site at: https://march.rutgers.edu/nps-conference/?
Are you coming? Can you live-Tweet either event?
Email Mandi at mandimh@camden.rutgers.edu
Wendy Woloson received her PhD in American Studies from the University of Pennsylvania, and wrote her dissertation on the history of confections in America, which became her first book, Refined Tastes: Sugar, Consumers, and Confectionery in 19th-Century America. For over a decade she was the Curator of Printed Books at the Library Company of Philadelphia, and comes to Rutgers-Camden having spent several years as a consultant on digital archives projects.
Her research interests include the history of material and consumer culture, used goods markets, alternative and criminal economies, and the history of capitalism. She has published several articles on the history of American consumer and material culture, and her second book, In Hock: Pawning in America from Independence through the Great Depression was published in 2009.
In addition to an edited collection of essays about 19th-century underground economies, she is currently at work on a monograph about the history of cheap goods in America, provisionally titled From Yankee Notions to Plastic Vomit: A History of Crap in America. Also a working artist with an MFA in printmaking, Wendy hopes to bring her varied experiences to her courses at Rutgers, and will be teaching Museums in the Digital Age this fall.
56:512:531 ISSUES IN PUBLIC HISTORY
Monday 5:00 PM – 7:40 PM Mires
56:512:524 COLLOQUIUM ON RACE & ETHNICITY
Tuesday 5:00 PM – 7:40 PM Thomas
56:512:505 COLLOQUIUM ON AMERICA TO 1820
Wednesday 5:00 PM – 7:40 PM Shankman
56:512:679 ADVANCED TOPICS IN PUBLIC HISTORY
Thursday 5:00 PM – 7:40 PM Woloson
For more information about the graduate program and fall courses contact Dr. Andrew Shankman (shankman@camden.rutgers.edu)
Sam Lebovic, a post-doctoral student at Rutgers-NB, will give a paper on the First Amendment, classification, and domestic political culture. David Farber of Temple University will comment.
Each seminar is followed by snacks and a social hour. Please let us know if you plan to come so we can have adequate refreshments. Maps and directions are available at the RU-Camden website: How to Get to Rutgers-Camden.
