The Way of Improvement Leads Home, 1/8/2019
If you care about history and want to hear from historians working outside of the academic tenure-track, then you should be aware of Contingent Magazine.
HASTAC, 1/24/2019
A more public-facing project should not be a luxury for already tenured faculty.
Insights (Organization of American Historians), 2/3/2019
Contingent aims to be a place where the public can see a fuller range of the research historians do, a place where historians don’t feel pressure to package their research as a hot take.
The Writer, 8/8/2019
The magazine’s editors look for submissions that don’t hide the process of historical research but rather ‘make the process visible and put the historian into the story.’
Fangirl, Dec. 20, 2019
. . . all of our pieces engage with what it means to do history itself. This means talking about the differences between the past, the way people talk about, remember, and use ideas about the past, and the discipline of history, which is a specific set of analytical tools.
Inside Higher Ed, January 27, 2020
Bartram said that the magazine is also an opportunity — even a challenge — for anyone who’s ever wanted to “do something” for adjuncts . . . they can donate and give non-tenure-track scholars a kind of “second life.”
Podcast Appearances
Erin on Hellbent (racism and sexism in academia), Feb. 11, 2019
Bill on Nostalgia Trap (historians and the gig economy), April 4, 2019
Erin on DIY Democracy (historical thinking in a healthy democracy), April 16, 2019
Marc and Bill on Working Historians (paying historians for their work), June 28, 2019
Bill on Nostalgia Trap (Contingent roundtable on Forrest Gump), July 10, 2019