Distinguished Research Professor and Professor Emeritus David Dean has a new book, .

Abstract:

Performing Public History explores history-telling as a performance across a wide range of media, including theatre and film, historical re-enactments and living history performances, operas, and video games. Taking historians as storytellers, this book illustrates how the choices they make shape historical meaning. While historians may strive to be objective when they research and write the past, they inevitably draw on their imagination, emotions, and creativity, aligning them with others who make history in public. The book explores issues such as the nature of archives, realism, fact and fiction, accuracy and authenticity, and actants and audiences. It draws on case studies from all parts of the world, offering global perspectives that invite a rethinking about what history is, and how and why we do it. Sharing work by graduate students, the author also offers an appendix of classroom exercises that instructors will find valuable.

Written accessibly for students, this volume offers a succinct account of the discipline of history, the field of public history, and how performance is a useful concept for thinking about history work.

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On Friday, members of the History Department came out to proudly watch our undergraduate and graduate students cross the stage for convocation.

It was an especially exciting time for one of our graduates, Mary Gunn! Not only did she win the University Medal, but she also crossed the stage that morning with her youngest son!

Congratulations to Mary, Vicente, and all their fellow graduates!

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Jennifer Evans sat down with the Refuse Fascism podcast to talk about the . Past podcasts include conversations with Gavriel Rosenfeld, current director of the Center for Jewish Studies in New York, Janet Ward, American Council on Education (ACE) Fellow at Yale University and Senior Associate Vice President for Research and Partnerships at the University of Oklahoma, and Ruth Ben Ghiat, Professor of History and Italian Studies at New York University and frequent commentator on MSNBC and PBS. Available .

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Jennifer Evans sat down with Armanc Yildiz for the New Books Network on her recent book T (Duke UP, 2023). They spoke about historical methodologies, memory work, and what it means to do queer history today. The podcast is available .

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