Abstract
Even prior to the financial crises of 2008, higher education institutions underwent a transition that placed more emphasis on financial rather than academic matters. The elimination of cross-disciplinary and intercommunity cooperation and collaboration has been replaced by interdepartmental tussles for funding and students and the loss of experiential learning opportunities for students. The Humanities have been the focus of severe budget and personnel cuts, and the preservation, teaching, and production of history in particular has in recent years experienced devastating attacks in the US and elsewhere. The need to think creatively about how to ensure the past is protected and displayed is therefore an historical urgency. It is with this in mind that we consider how to overcome the barriers that thwart collaboration and cooperation, and how interdisciplinary and inter community cooperation enhance the production, preservation, and teaching of history. The graduate program in Public History at Northern Kentucky University has managed to establish both inter-departmental and inter-community relationships that have resulted in the production of rich, inclusive histories of the Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky region. Despite successes, barriers persist to achieving the desired end of preserving stories of persons and events that would otherwise be lost to history, especially those concerning people of color, Native Americans, and women.
Presenters
Jennifer MorrisProfessor of History, Arts and Humanities, Mount St. Joseph University, Ohio, United States
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Theme
2024 Special Focus—Intersectionality: Museums, Inclusion, and SDGs
KEYWORDS
Inclusion, Public History, Interdisciplinarity, Collaboration, Cooperation
