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Presented By: Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies

EIHS Lecture: "An Anthropologist Looks at the Public History Job Market"

Cathy Stanton, Tufts University

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This presentation will consider public history as a workplace, a career path, and a sometimes ambiguous component of commemorative, educational, and development projects. Professor Stanton will draw on experiences from across the whole participant-observation spectrum from scholarly study to engaged practice and will open questions about present entanglements and possibilities.

Cathy Stanton is a senior lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at Tufts University and an active practitioner in public humanities and public anthropology projects. Her dissertation for the interdisciplinary doctorate degree at Tufts focused on the role of public history in helping to reinvent
a deindustrialized place for a new economy; published as "The Lowell Experiment: Public History in a Postindustrial City" (2006), it won the National Council on Public History's 2007 book award. Stanton has served for many years as a consultant to the National Park Service's Ethnography Program, and has produced ethnographic and ethnohistorical studies of various park-associated groups, including reenactors, farmers, and cottagers. She has also been active in the field of digital public history, serving as NCPH's Digital Media Editor since 2008 and overseeing the development of the History@Work blog and other publications. Stanton's recent work and much of her teaching has focused on the "local food" movement, and particularly on questions of where it intersects or fails to intersect with historical representations of food production's pasts. A current book project, coauthored with Michelle Moon, is tentatively titled "History and the Food System: Adding the Missing Ingredient" and is forthcoming in 2016 from Left Coast Press.

Free and open to the public. Lunch provided.

This event is part of the Friday Series of the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies. It is made possible by a generous contribution from Kenneth and Frances Aftel Eisenberg.
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