Comments on: THATCamp Was All THAT, And More http://www.dancohen.org/2008/06/10/that-camp-was-all-that-and-more/ Covering the intersection of digital technology and research, teaching, and learning in the humanities, including search, data mining, website development and design, and programming. Wed, 07 Jan 2009 23:06:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: Chris Blanchard http://www.dancohen.org/2008/06/10/that-camp-was-all-that-and-more/#comment-2369 Chris Blanchard Wed, 11 Jun 2008 16:22:06 +0000 http://www.dancohen.org/?p=318#comment-2369 Dan: it's not only the conferences that need a makeover, but the profession. It's an old topic, I know, but history departments are typically behind the times where organization is concerned. Like almost everywhere else in the world, Boise State's history department is organized by <em>geography</em>. We have our Asian scholar, our African scholar, and our ME scholar, etc. But if you look back at the last 20 years of work by the grad students, the vast majority of work done is in urban history, environmental history, social history (gender and ethnicity), regional history, and public history. So why not organize history departments that way? Some schools seem to be moving toward that model, but the profession is slow to change. Dan: it’s not only the conferences that need a makeover, but the profession. It’s an old topic, I know, but history departments are typically behind the times where organization is concerned. Like almost everywhere else in the world, Boise State’s history department is organized by geography.

We have our Asian scholar, our African scholar, and our ME scholar, etc. But if you look back at the last 20 years of work by the grad students, the vast majority of work done is in urban history, environmental history, social history (gender and ethnicity), regional history, and public history. So why not organize history departments that way?

Some schools seem to be moving toward that model, but the profession is slow to change.

]]>