I will be hosting the History Carnival here shortly, please send entries to me via email or twitter, or via the form here http://historycarnival.org/ Nominate any recent blog posts on historical topics that you would recommend to other readers. The carnival will be up next weekend, so entries in before then!
Meanwhile, back on the hunt for #twitterstorians:
@margiemcl Marjorie McLellan @aehunt Andrew Hunt @KrisLindbeck Kris Lindbeck @bradshoebottom Bradley Shoebottom @j_l_r @lawhistory Josh Stein @DrFredDOpie Fred D. Opie @hugoschwyzer Hugo Schwyzer @engbynik Nikki Rutledge @GilTroy Gil Troy @aaronsmoore Aaron Moore @Woffproff Tracy Revels @Miquettesfriend James Blakeley @TheGradDean Amy McCandless @HistoryCult Andrew Haley @amycurry Amy Curry @Krisrich Kristina Richardson @mad4holly Michael A. Davis @ekleinberg Ethan Kleinberg @chaschick02 Heather @ok_archive Jaime - historian of the Amazon, 19th-20th centuries.
Since I posted the list here, many people have visited, added themselves in the comments or messaged me about it. I even got a link on HNN! I hope the #twitterstorians hashtag is useful and the list has helped you, dear reader, find some like-minded folk. But the (AFAIK) impossibility of searching twitter users by keyword in their profiles means it’s still tough to find people in particular fields. I excitedly went to watch this guide to “academic networking on twitter” http://www.academicevolution.com/2009/09/academic-networking-with-twitter.html but was disappointed by the Twitter 101 “advice”, no secret shortcuts or useful tools.
Here are a few more:
@jondresner Jonathan Dresner – also a colleague from Frog in a Well @joannainchile Joanna McGarry @joadraymond Joad Raymond @missannersley Catherine Wright @idlehistorian @leasbreda Medievalist and Anglo-Saxonist
Still more! (24/9) @cornelwest @kevindmccann @russeltar @candace_nast grad student at University of Windsor in Ontario, Canada. Also working on a digital history guide for students looking for graduate programs. http://dhguide.pbworks.com/ @ericmjohnson - Eric Johnson, history of science @FashionHistoria - Heather Vaughan @misciel - Michelle Laughran @keithramsey @Justinfloyd @heidenkind - Tasha B., Art History @gildomingo
Yesterday, I asked where all the historians were on twitter. Thanks to the generosity of retweets, my message got around, and I received greetings from many – and I decided to compile a list here (including anything they posted about what they work on).
@jcmeloni Julie Meloni @jaheppler Jason Heppler - History PhD student at the University of Nebraska-Linicoln @jmcclurken Jeff McClurcken - My own fields are 19th C. US families, veterans, gender, mental institutions, & the digital humanities @sfern Susan Fernsebner - historian of 19th-20th c. China, working on material culture, colonialism @parezcoydigo Chad Black - colonial Latin Americanist, working on 18th c. Quito, Ecuador. @history_geek Holly Tucker - early-modern history of medicine. @glrichard Gregory Richard - legal/Southern U.S. hybrid history Ph.D. student @lucyinglis Lucy Inglis - London from 1660 to 1836. @twicklicious Jan Cornelius - Ancient Greece, specializations: Neolithic and Bronze, Cycladic and Mycenean mainly ... currently not more than a "hobby" @marri Marri Lynn @TheHistoryWoman Gaby Mahlberg @Greeneland Julie Greene - US labor, politics, and empire, I tweet mostly on history matters and contemporary labor. @Airminded Brett Holman - Historian of the British fear of aerial bombardment, early 20th century here. @llmunro Lisa Munro - I'm a grad student: I study 19th c. cultural history of Guatemala @maureenogle Mareen Ogle @boston1775 J.L. Bell @mercpol Nick P. @kristenkim03 Kristen - a grad student in U.S. History. @tanya_roth Tanya Roth - PhD candidate, US/women's history
I was already following a few historians, so here they are too: @big_valley Susan Johnson-Roehr – architectural history @larrycebula Larry Cebula – of Northwest History @adevenney Andrew D. Devenney @sepoy Manan Ahmed – of Chapati Mystery @sharon_howard Sharon Howard – of Early Modern Notes @publichistorian Suzanne Fischer @hallnjean Norma Hall @joguldi Jo Guldi @TenuredRadical Claire Potter @kmlawson K. M. Lawson – of Frog in a Well @dancohen Dan Cohen @worldhistory Russ Lewis @digitalhumanist Dave Lester @clioweb Jeremy Boggs @sterflu Sterling Fluharty
Apologies if I have missed anyone out, if you want to add yourself or others please post a comment or message me on twitter @katrinagulliver
UPDATE - New additions: @peregrinatrix Alexandra Guerson - phd candidate working on xn-jewish relations in late medieval spain @TimHitchcock Tim Hitchcock - 18th century London, gender, sexuality, masculinity @marcinwilkowski Marcin Wilkowski @HouseHistorian Melanie Backe-Hansen @quackwriter Caroline Rance - My interest is 18th & 19thC history of medicine, and I write historical novels. @JimTurnerAZ Jim Turner - Arizona, New Spain, Reconquista, and Conquest of Mexico.
Further updates - 9/9 @kristamccracken @gentlemanadmn @heritagetwit @hist_enthusiast
Still more! (plus the folks in the comments below) @daintyballerina Early Modern drama & politics. Jacobean stage. @conservadora Lara Kelland @historine Anna Gesa @theofel @WWIIToday A.T. Nelson @foundhistory Tom Scheinfeldt @historying Cameron Blevins
And some twittering institutions of interest to historians: @HistoryatCamb @museumist @UChicagoPress @LookBackMaps @history_book @TheHistoryPress @nypl @HornimanMuseum @NHM_London @I_W_M @britishmuseum @HistoryCompass @chnm @nybooks @HISTORY_Daily @ihr_history @HistoryTimes @mitpress @penguinusa @historyfaculty @smithsonian @NYHistory
Why do the humanities seem resistant to credible online-only, open-access journals? Obviously they are not going to have the heritage of the AHR, EHR, and other journals whose worthiness has been demonstrated by longevity as well as quality. But is there room in history for legitimate e-journals? I can think of a few, but the first response when I suggested an online journal to a colleague recently was “Would it count for tenure?”.
I don’t know why the simple fact of being online should cast doubt on a journal’s value. Given the slow publication process that seems to afflict many humanities journals (6-12 months for acceptance; 12-24 months before articles appear), I would expect many scholars to be clamouring for an opportunity to get their work out more swiftly, in a peer-reviewed venue.
How is such publication judged next to an article in a peer-reviewed print journal? I have never been on a committee making such an assessment, but my sense is that an article in Fabulous Online Research is judged as less worthy than one in Mediocre Print Journal.
The slow process of research and publication in history of course also means that citation indices are of limited value (compared to the sciences) in demonstrating a publication’s worth (especially of particular articles, which will take years to start appearing in the footnotes of other published pieces). And ranking of humanities journals by science matrices also tends to produce results very much at odds with the level of esteem in which journals are held within the discipline.
Is there some reason (other than bibliophile aesthetics or traditionalism) that online publications are deemed not as good as those in printed journals?
