E83 - The Decline of the History Profession w/ Erin Bartram

<p>Danny and Derek welcome to the program Erin Bartram, school programs coordinator at the Mark Twain House and co-founder of <em>Contingent</em><a target="_blank" href="https://contingentmagazine.org/"> </a><em>Magazine</em>, for a discussion of the decline of the history profession and humanities programs in general. They discuss the effect of consistent loss of knowledge production on a given field, the American Historical Association’s (AHA) response to the state of the academic job market, organizing in academia, moving on to non-academic fields after leaving the academy, and more. </p><p>Check out Erin’s controversial piece on leaving academia, <a target="_blank" href="http://erinbartram.com/uncategorized/the-sublimated-grief-of-the-left-behind/">“The Sublimated Grief of the Left Behind”</a>.</p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://www.americanprestigepod.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&#38;utm_campaign=CTA_2">www.americanprestigepod.com/subscribe</a>