Should you get a Ph.D to work in a history museum? – Part 3: How might we make it useful?
Part 3: How might we make it useful? How might we fix the Ph.D. so that it is more useful
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Should you get a Ph.D to work in a history museum? – Part 2: Is it useful for the job?
Most curatorial jobs do not require a Ph.D., but is it useful? Does it make one a better curator? The
Education, Museums, Public humanities
Should you get a Ph.D to work in a history museum? – Part 1
Should you get an MA or Ph.D to work in a history museum? I talk to many students interested in
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Museums and the Crisis of Education
Just a link here to a post I did for the Center for the Future of Museums blog, on the
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Contemporary collecting risky – but important
In which I come to the defense of Carlene Stephen’s blog post on collecting Stanley, and mostly disagree with Thomas
Digital humanities, Public humanities, teaching
Building a Professional Persona Online
Friday was Workshop Day at THATCampNE, and Ian Russell and I talked to about 30 folks about your online persona.
Digital humanities, Public humanities, teaching
Digital Public Humanities (and an out-of-body experience)
Here’s the talk I gave as the keynote for the New England American Studies Association. Or, rather, here are four
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Questions to ask when visiting a museum
Some of my students recently made a field trip to a local museum. These are some questions I suggested they
Criticism, Museums
Museum criticism, inside and out
(a response to the conversation at museumgeek.wordpress.com.) An important question, and you do a good job of getting at the
Collections, Exhibits
A rock’s story
I’ve been following closely (this may sound odd) the story of a rock. Not just any rock, and not just
