she/her | historian of 20th-c U.S. West, race, and urban space | digital & public history | @StMUPublicHist | @PedagogyPlay
Sep 26, 2020 • 45 tweets • 16 min read
Excited for Day 3 of #AASLH2020, starting with Critical Issues Forum: Challenges, Opportunities, and the Future of Historical Organizations
Panelists include: @ERaelGalvez of Creative Strategies 360, Cassie Chinn of @winglukemuseum, @NEHchair
Jon Peede and Gretchen Sorin of @CoopGradProgram
I LOVE when people start by telling us how their thinking about their panel has shifted. Because let's be real - this always happens. I love when people lean into this. #AASLH2020
Sep 24, 2020 • 12 tweets • 7 min read
Getting ready for the panel: Empathy: Silver Bullet or Kryptonite at #AASLH2020. Will collect my tweets from this session here.
Fundamental question - is this a super power or a fundamental weakness of public historians. Welcome to @1Facilitateher@ameliawig@KayleighBinDC@sarahjencks@smanny Can't wait! #AASLH2020
Sep 24, 2020 • 19 tweets • 8 min read
Excited to learn from some amazing women during the first #aaslh2020 panel: #MeToo, and #BlackLivesMatter: Black Women Leaders Overcoming the Double Burden
@OEatonMartinez reminds us to get in good trouble, necessary trouble, along with taking time to #saytheirnames. Especially poignant this morning after the #BreonnaTaylor decision last night. #AASLH2020
Sep 17, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
I've been working on creating a digital version of the Old Spanish Trail auto highway travel guide from 1929. Some analysis to come soon, but excited to share this product with y'all! Happy for any feedback!
arcg.is/1vivWn
Many thanks to @ajennyh, @hangryhistorian, and @GloryTurnbull for their advice and for enduring me bombarding them with all sorts of excerpts of the travelog from my deep ride. They are excellent colleagues and pals.
Aug 15, 2020 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
Every fall, my grad Intro to #publichistory class takes to Twitter to share PH resources and reflect. This semester they'll each be choosing an area of expertise to develop and share here. Here they are if you'd like to follow them and learn more! /Thread
Excited to share my COVID-revised Grad Intro to #publichistory syllabus.
Still putting in some final touches, but I welcome any feedback (especially if it cuts or fixes instead of adds 🤣)
notion.so/HS-6301A-Home-…
I owe thanks to many many many people for this revision (and I fear I may leave some out).
Thanks to @cjdenial who let me borrow all sorts of student-centered language from her syllabus. It's a change I've wanted to make for a while and I'm so glad she helped provide the words
Jul 28, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
I'm really worried about rolling right into our VERY-early-start-semester feeling exhausted. This is how I normally feel in like November-December. I'm finishing up a draft of my book mss this week; I've written an NEH proposal...I've gotten lots of big stuff done this summer.
All of which are big and important goals, but also because the only break I can get from parenting is work. If I have things to do, I get to go into a room by myself.
IT IS IMPOSSIBLE to really relax and recover when we are here with no childcare ALL OF THE TIME.
Jul 9, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
It's a weird time when my research and my real life are aligning in weird ways.
I'm editing my chapter on a student strike to create an ethnic studies program.
I'm writing a grant to support the creation of an ethnic studies program.
I'm editing a passage about Reagan threatening to open SF State at the point of a bayonet...
And I'm watching our government make threats about pushing kids back to school when it might not be safe.
Jun 23, 2020 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Y'all, please take a minute to read @EFitzford 's blackintheivorytower posts (click on her profile and you'll see them).
Then, come back, and brainstorm one action you can take this summer or fall to dismantle racism in academia.
1) I started a culturally responsive reading group for faculty and instructors last year that got interrupted by covid. I'm committed to making a space for these discussions happen this fall.
Jun 7, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
I've been wrestling with what to call/classify the activism I'm talking about in my book. I'm especially interested in ways that activism (very broadly defined) functioned to build community -- by helping people understand how they fit together as a community .../1
...and protecting neighborhood spaces in which they live. I'd been using the term "community-building activism," but I don't really love this term. Any ideas? /2
May 29, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Just built a new interface for my internship students that uses Canvas to submit assignments, but all the rest is done through Trello so students can create meaningful due dates w/in the bounds of their internship. /1
Whether it succeeds or fails, all inspiration goes to my genius Allison Gray who helped think far, far outside of the box!
May 15, 2020 • 8 tweets • 1 min read
Tldr: Laughing in the face of imposter syndrome, or something like that
Before last weekend, I had never presented a poster before, and I had never attended, let alone presented at this conference before either. /1
I made a poster far less dense than I had planned, choosing readable font since it would be displayed on computer screens and mobile devices via zoom screen share. /2
Apr 16, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Round 2 of Name that Western Historian: 1. (🍐-R)🐢+ ✴️✈️ 2. &✍️+🐘🧾 3. 🐜📧+🥶🧍♂️ 4. 🔠👁️+(🟦🐦)Ⓜ️👨👦
5: 🐾🤧+🧤🐚
6: ☄️+🚮
7: ➿ +(🔫+🔫)📲
8: 🌞📽️+🕸️R
9: (🔚-🔁)+⚫🦅
10: 👌🍵+🍶👄
Screenshot for those whose emojis don't show the same!
Mar 22, 2020 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
So after a week of trialing both of us working from home (partner has been WFH for two years, I WFH scattered through the week but w/o kids home), here's what I've found: /1
-Partner has a set of meetings from day to day that vary so we can't easily divide mornings and afternoons like some people are doing
-he'd come to help between meetings, but unless I had a meeting or a call I didn't feel "freed" to leave the room. /2
Mar 20, 2020 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
I got hired into a TT job while I was pregnant w/ a due date 45 days into my appointment. I'll never forget the enthusiasm of the dean who hired me when I told her. She worked hard on the negotiation process to try to find the most humane solutions possible for me #ncph2020#wg5
In the end, I worked from home for my first semester. We didn't move to Texas until baby was 3 months old. This was great because our families could help us out for a few months.
I had a modified 1:1 teaching load my first year because I was hired to build a PH MA #wg5#ncph2020
Mar 20, 2020 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
Excited for listening to #publichistory parents working group at #ncph2020 which seems more urgent than ever. #wg5
And with fitting surroundings too...
A shout out to the careful diversity in age, parenthood, and career stage and type in #wg5. 🎉
Mar 19, 2020 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Should I turn on my video so everyone can see me fighting my 2yo for a couch cushion #ncph2020
A shout out to the careful diversity in age, parenthood, and career stage and type in #wg5. 🎉
