Spacing magazine, the Toronto-centric magazine about urbanism, civic culture, and the built environment, has a nice little feature in the current issue about Heritage Toronto (a city agency) and its Emerging Historians program. The program is addressed to:
young historians and cultural workers [who] frequently face a choice between unpaid internships or volunteer positions -- stepping stones to an ideal career that many simply can't afford
Last year Emerging Historians offered $116,000 in short-term (and some longer-term) contracts "reshaping how the city's stories are told while preparing the next generation of historians to lead with passion and purpose," according to Shiri Yeung.
All the emerging historians it profiles are younger and less known than all those I had thought of as emerging historians of Toronto. But the ecology of podcast history, YouTube history, walking-tour history, and off-grid conference historians is alive and well -- a sharp contrast of the world of our old-white-guy community moaning about how the Canadian publishing ecology that used to support us seems to have withered away.
The article "Next Generation Explores the Past" seems to be print-edition only, at least for the moment.
