Public Historians at Work
Welcome to “Public Historians at Work,” a podcast series from the Center for Public History at the University of Houston, Texas. Our vision at CPH is to ignite an understanding of our diverse pasts by collaborating with and training historically minded students, practitioners, and the public through community-driven programming and scholarship. In this podcast series, we speak with academics, writers, artists, and community members about what it means to do history and humanities work for and with the public. Check us out at www.uh.edu/CLASS/cph or find us on social media @UHCPHistory. Executive Producer: Dr. Kristina Neumann (kmneuma2@central.uh.edu)
Episodes
33 episodes
Building Belonging in the Archive: USLDH
The power of an archive to elevate an underrepresented community cannot be overstated. Since the early 1990s, Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage Program ("Recovery") under
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Season 3
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Episode 10
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43:28
Discovering Power in the Past: The Algorithms and Power Systems Architecture Project
A historian and two engineers walk into a conference….Rather than the start to a joke, this is a core component of the project, "Algorithms and Power Systems Architecture: Using Historical Analysis to Envision a Sustainable Future...
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Episode 9
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52:18
Curating Visibility: Latino cARTographies
Latino cARTographies is an interactive digital archive and exhibition reimagining Houston through an inclusive vision of Latino art, artists, and community. This project was developed out of the Univers...
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Episode 8
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51:22
Reaching New Audiences thru Data Science and UX: SYRIOS
In an increasingly digitized world, public historians have new opportunities to reach wider audiences than ever before. However, translating our work online for and with public audiences requires more than simply uploading essays and images.&nb...
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Episode 7
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55:44
Immigrant Stories: Salomon Imiak
Over the course of the 20th century, Houston evolved into a global city as immigrants from across the world came to call the city home. In this special supplement, undergraduate students from the University of Houston explore Houston’s undertol...
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Episode 6
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16:07
Immigrant Stories: Sara Esquenazi
Over the course of the 20th century, Houston evolved into a global city as immigrants from across the world came to call the city home. In this special supplement, undergraduate students from the University of Houston explore Houston’s undertol...
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Episode 5
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12:33
Immigrant Stories: Kuperman and Hebraica Houston
Over the course of the 20th century, Houston evolved into a global city as immigrants from across the world came to call the city home. In this special supplement, undergraduate students from the University of Houston explore Houston’s undertol...
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Episode 4
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14:36
Recovering Hidden Histories: The Sephardic Latinx Oral History Project
In Spring 2022, Dr. Mark Goldberg (Associate Professor of History, University of Houston) decided to try something new with his undergraduate history course. As a way of enriching his students’ engagement with Jewish Latinx culture, Goldberg pa...
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Episode 3
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48:44
Finding Radical Hope: 100 Years of Stories
In the practice of public history, how the wider community receives a project is just as important as the intentions behind its creation. As work done for and with public audiences, the exhibits, media, and spaces we cultivate form a dialogue w...
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Episode 2
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17:23
Celebrating a University: 100 Years of Stories
In 2027, the University of Houston in Texas will celebrate its centennial anniversary. In honor of that upcoming milestone, the Center for Public History (CPH) partnered with UH Libraries and Houston Public Media to collect, share, and preserve...
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Episode 1
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44:50
Accessing Disability History: Cathy Kudlick and Fran Osborne
In 1977, over 100 people with disabilities and their allies occupied a federal building in San Francisco for almost a month. Part of the national 504 Sit-In, this remarkable protest sought to finally sign into law Section 504 of the Rehabilitat...
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Season 2
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Episode 7
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56:10
Transmitting Infectious Historians: Lee Mordechai and Merle Eisenberg
What do millennia-old plagues have to do with the current COVID-19 pandemic? In this episode (recorded on May 11, 2022), Dr. Kristina Neumann sits down with Drs. Merle Eisenberg (Assistant Professor of History, Oklahoma State University)...
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Episode 6
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51:02
Valuing Emotion around HIV/AIDS: Stephen Vider
According to Dr. Stephen Vider (Assistant Professor of History at Cornell University), capturing feeling is just as important to public history as transmitting knowledge. Whether collecting an oral history or cultivating a museum exhibit, Dr. V...
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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41:08
Archiving Cancer Care at MD Anderson: Javier Garza
If a medical institution’s mission is to make cancer a relic of the past, the archivist’s role is to collect, preserve, and make that history available. So says Javier Garza, Senior Library Analyst and Archivist at the MD Anderson Cancer Center...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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38:04
Publishing Under-told Stories of Houston: Debbie Harwell
There are many ways to produce public history, but one of the most unique publications comes from the University of Houston. Houston History magazine is a student-written and edited publication dedicated to the under-told stories of on...
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Episode 3
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42:40
Amplifying History in Healthcare: Ronit Stahl
With debates about healthcare dominating the news, the past resonates all the more. American historian Dr. Ronit Stahl (Associate Professor of History, University of California: Berkeley) clearly illustrates this principle in her conversation w...
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Episode 2
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49:39
Making Big Data Talk for Public Health: Merlin Chowkwanyun
Digital and Analog. Big data and Qualitative Research. Humanities and STEM. Activism and Academia. For some, these concepts may seem like polar opposites, but each is integral to the work of Dr. Merlin Chowkwanyun, a historian at Columbia Unive...
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Episode 1
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46:10
Preserving Protest in Russia: Alexandra Arkhipova
You might not think of a night in jail as a “nice time,” but for public anthropologist, Dr. Alexandra Arkhipova (Wilson Center, DC), her arrest in Russia in 2017 was both an opportunity for research and part of a long-standing tradition for pub...
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Episode 1
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35:26
Engaging Social Justice Activism through Public History: Denise Meringolo
In order to define, assess, and theorize what we do as public historians, we first need to know our own past as a field. So says Denise Meringolo, a distinguished professor of History at the University of Maryland: Baltimore County. In this fin...
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Episode 8
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53:19
Stories from the Third Ward: Feeding the Third Ward
***WINNER OF THE 2022 UH MEDIA AND MOVING IMAGE STUDENT PRIZE COMPETITION, CRITICAL CATEGORY***In this special episode, Jovan Slaughter - a UH graduate stud...
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Episode 15
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14:50
Replaying American History through Sports: Frank Guridy
A history of sports can be a history of the United States. So says Dr. Frank Guridy, an American historian at Columbia University and author of the book, The Sports Revolution: How Texas Changed the Culture of American Athletics (Unive...
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Episode 7
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42:07
Listening for Latina/o Voices: Maggie Rivas-Rodriguez
For journalist and oral historian Dr. Maggie Rivas-Rodriguez, her mission is clear: to record the experiences and contributions of Latinas and Latinos within the United States. As she explains to Dr. Josiah Rector during their conversation on M...
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Episode 6
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48:35
Stories from the Third Ward: Third Ward's Eldorado Ballroom
In this special episode, Rebecca Archer - a UH graduate student in Art History - tells the story of the Eldorado Ballroom, Houston’s “Home of Happy Feet.” Established in 1939 by Anna Dupree, this historic, black-owned music venue in the Third W...
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Episode 14
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12:46
Stories from the Third Ward: The Art and Legacy of Dr. John T. Biggers
In this special episode, Sheri Schrader – a UH graduate student in Art History – details the life of Dr. John T. Biggers, a prominent African-American artist centered in the Third Ward. Learn about his career as an influential muralist and educ...
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Episode 13
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21:28
Stories from the Third Ward: Beautifying Third Ward
In this special episode, Ana Girard - a UH graduate student in Art History - relays her interview with Houstonian artist Maya Imani Watson. A prolific artist in multiple mediums, Watson specifically discusses her two mini murals beautifying Thi...
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Episode 12
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