Graduate History Blog

November 6: Two Free Events Sponsored by the National Park Service and MARCH

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

Congratulations to Award-Winning Graduate Student Brian Albright

Graduate student Brian Albright, the archaeological field director at AECOM and Frank G. Mickolic were together honored with the 2013 New Jersey Historical Preservation Award from the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection Historical Preservation and the New Jersey Historic Sites Council for their work at the Reeders Creek West archaeological site.

You can read more about it here: https://www.nj.gov/dep/hpo/4sustain/awds2013.htm#awd8

A Profile of New Faculty Member Wendy Woloson

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.

Fall Graduate Courses

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)

A Shout-Out to Our Graduate Students

On April 26, 2013, six graduate students from the Rutgers-Camden history department gave walking tours of Historic Cooper Street to participants of the Third Annual Public HIstory Community Forum. The tours were developed as part of Dr. Charlene Mires’ Historic Interpretation class.

Over the course of the semester the students researched and wrote the tours, presenting them for the first time that day. The tours touched on a number of themes including architecture, industrialization and urbanization, transportation, Camden’s medical history, and youth and education. Congratulations to Rutgers-Camden tour guides Brian Albright, Kim Coulter, Jacob Downs, Joshua Lisowski, Mikaela Maria, William Roulett for their hard work in creating what was considered a high point of the day!

Dr. Howard Gillette, Professor Emeritus of History at Rugers-Camden served as the keynote speaker. Two alumni of the public history program at Rutgers-Camden’s served on the committee: Mandi Magnuson-Hung (Chair) and Kathleen Leonard. PubComm13 was sponsored by the Mid-Atlantic Regional Center for the Humanities at Rugers-Camden.

Read all about it at https://march.rutgers.edu/2013/05/07/third-annual-public-history-community-forum-comes-to-rutgers-camden/.