I blogged before, during, and after grad school. I've always been interested in the ways history podcasters and YouTubers find interesting ways to package insights from the past. Now I'm looking at my final year of tenure-track university employment, after being "retrenched" due to budget. I'm blogging about that daily at danallosso.substack.com because I think my university is dying and that its problems are a microcosm of the crisis in Higher Ed. So I'm also thinking much more seriously about finding an audience online again.
I wouldn't say "depend on", in that we'd certainly have some if not all of the current amazing range of historical podcasts available without the existing infrastructure of the universities. Many of the podcasts (and blogs/Substacks) I enjoy are definitely the products of former or current-but-frustrated non-tenure-track historians ... and if some of them can generate at least a little bit of income, it's all to the good. Unfortunately, I'm not able to financially contribute to any of them as I'm currently long-term unemployed, but my life is richer for the crumbs I gather around their learned tables.
I blogged before, during, and after grad school. I've always been interested in the ways history podcasters and YouTubers find interesting ways to package insights from the past. Now I'm looking at my final year of tenure-track university employment, after being "retrenched" due to budget. I'm blogging about that daily at danallosso.substack.com because I think my university is dying and that its problems are a microcosm of the crisis in Higher Ed. So I'm also thinking much more seriously about finding an audience online again.
I wouldn't say "depend on", in that we'd certainly have some if not all of the current amazing range of historical podcasts available without the existing infrastructure of the universities. Many of the podcasts (and blogs/Substacks) I enjoy are definitely the products of former or current-but-frustrated non-tenure-track historians ... and if some of them can generate at least a little bit of income, it's all to the good. Unfortunately, I'm not able to financially contribute to any of them as I'm currently long-term unemployed, but my life is richer for the crumbs I gather around their learned tables.