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HIST 298: Junior Colloquium

Resources for historians

Examples

Phadke, Roopali. 2011. “Resisting and Reconciling Big Wind: Middle Landscape Politics in the New American West.” Antipode 43 (3): 754–76. doi:10.1111/j.1467-8330.2011.00881.x. https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=31h&AN=60468018&site=ehost-live&scope=site

  • This is REALLY overtly structured (you may or may not want to lampshade your paper so much), which makes it very easy to see what's happening where.

  • Take a look at the "Mobilizing Place Theory and New American West
    Literatures" section (756-759) to see an example of a historiography. Think of this like the timeline of scholarship leading up to where you are now (not necessarily the scholarship that you're going to be using in your main argument); defining your terms; and introducing disagreements in the field.
  • --> Note that this journal doesn't use Chicago citation style

 

Goldman, Mara J., Paul Nadasdy, and Matthew D. Turner, eds. Knowing Nature : Conversations at the Intersection of Political Ecology and Science Studies. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011. https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/carleton-ebooks/detail.action?docID=680704

  • Focus on p 4-21: you don't need to read the whole thing (and this is obviously much longer than what you'll write...because BOOK), but this is a relevant book published by the University of Chicago Press (though it uses parenthetical citation style, which you're not using). Take a look at the moves that the authors make, how they frame their work within the field, and how they build out that timeline of scholarship. 

 

McCoy, Meredith L. and Matthew Villeneuve. "Reconceiving Schooling: Centering Indigenous Experimentation in Indian Education History." History of Education Quarterly 60, no. 4 (11, 2020): 487-519. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/heq.2020.53.

  • Focus on pages 1-5 (487-491): They define their terms, take up a call to action, align with specific scholars, frame the scholars (who are they?), and relate these scholars to their question/argument.

 

Adler, Antony. “Introduction.” In Neptune’s Laboratory: Fantasy, Fear, and Science at Sea, 1–12. Harvard University Press, 2019. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvqmp1v3.3.

  • Focus on pages 1-8: defining concepts like "the future" and "the past." Discusses history of the field of History of Oceanography. Talks about turning points, like "the spatial turn" and "the oceanic turn." Discusses differences between British, French, and American scholarship in the field. Relates the field to developments in science.
  • (remember that this is a book-length historiography)