The Past Speaks

A number　of　young　historians　have　created　individual　websites　to　help　promote　their　research.　I have made a list of some of the more interesting websites of this sort.

Rob MacDougall

Rob MacDougall is an Assistant Professor of History, University of Western Ontario, where he teaches post-1877 U.S. history, business history, and the history of technology. He has an awesome website. His publications include: “Long Lines: AT&T’s Long-Distance Network as an Organizational and Political Strategy,” Business History Review 80:2 (Summer 2006), 297-327; “The All-Red Dream: Technological Nationalism and the Trans-Canada Telephone System,” chapter in Canadas of the Mind: The Making and Unmaking of Canadian Nationalisms in the Twentieth Century, Adam Chapnick and Norman Hillmer, eds., Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2007, 46-62; “The People’s Telephone: The Politics of Telephony in the United States and Canada,” Enterprise and Society, 6:4 (December 2005), 581-587.

Jennifer Burns is an assistant professor of history at the University of Virginia, where she teaches 20^th century U.S. history. She used to teach a US history survey course at UC Berkeley (you can listen to the lectures on iTunes U). Dr Burns recently published a work on the influence of Ayn Rand on American life. She was interviewed about this book on the Daily Show and Reason.com. She has a great website.

Maki Umemura

Maki Umemura is a lecturer (in US parlance, an assistant professor) at Cardiff University. Her research is on the history of the Japanese pharmaceutical industry, a topic that combines business history and the history of medicine. Her publications include “The Interplay between Entrepreneurial Initiative and Government Policy: The Shaping of the Japanese Pharmaceutical Industry since 1945” Business and Economic History Online (2007). Dr Umemura is currently working on a history of the Japanese pharmaceutical industry since 1945, which will be published by Routledge. Her website includes one of the most visually-appealing academic blogs.

Sean Kheraj

Sean Kheraj is a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of British Columbia. He is an environmental historian and the host of the Nature`s Past podcasts. His publications include:“Improving Nature: Remaking Stanley Park’s Forest, 1888-1931” BC Studies (158) 2008: 63-90; “Restoring Nature: Ecology, Memory, and the Storm History of Vancouver’s Stanley Park” Canadian Historical Review 88 (4) 2007: 577-612;“Plaque Build-up: Commemorating the Buxton Settlement, 1950-2000” Problématique: Journal of Political Studies (9) 2003: 5-2.  He is an active blogger.