June 2020

This essay responds to the pieces in a special forum in History Australia on historians’ public and political responsibilities in “urgent times.” It does so by discussing historian as “time workers,” and by exploring the concept of history’s “externalities”: What have historical actors identified as outside their spheres of analysis…

This lecture and discussion over Zoom covers the practical do’s and don’t’s of launching your first academic book, with an eye towards both the steps you can take to help get your ideas out into the world, and the role this process can play for academic exchange and building and sustaining intellectual community.