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SUMMARY:Many Traditions\, One Alaska: Teaching Alaska's Connected History |
 |  A conversation featuring Katie Ringsmuth\, PhD & Paul Dunscomb\, PhD
DESCRIPTION:Speaker - Katie Ringsmuth\, PhD\nKatie Johnson Ringsmuth\, PhD\
 , is the sole proprietor of Tundra Vision and teaches U.S. Alaska\, and Wo
 rld History at the University of Alaska Anchorage. Ringsmuth is currently 
 working with UAF\, NPS\, Trident Seafoods\, and the Alaska Association of 
 Historic Preservation to collect\, interpret\, and share the stories of ca
 nnery workers from the historic NN Cannery at South Naknek. She is also co
 llaborating with Alaska Council of Social Studies and the Anchorage School
  District to bolster and assist Alaska Studies teachers. She has curated s
 everal history exhibitions\, including Home Field Advantage: Baseball in t
 he Far North and Wrangell Mountain Skyboys. She has authored five publicat
 ions for the National Park Service\, with the sixth—At Work in the Wrang
 ells: A Photographic History\, 1895-1966—due out later this year. Ringsm
 uth’s recent book\, Alaska’s Skyboys: Cowboy Pilots and the Myth of th
 e Last Frontier (2015)\, is now available through the University of Washin
 gton Press. Ringsmuth lives in Eagle River with her husband Eric and two b
 oys Ben and Tom.\nSpeaker - Paul Dunscomb\, PhD\nPaul Dunscomb\, PhD is th
 e UAA Department of History Chair as well as a Professor of East Asian His
 tory. He worked in broadcast television for several years before beginning
  graduate studies in history. He lived in Japan for two years while workin
 g on his Ph.D. dissertation. While his initial research focused on Japan
 ’s Siberian Intervention\, 1918-1922 and Japanese Imperialism his most r
 ecent work attempts to bring not only Postwar Japan but events of the last
  two and a half decades into focus. His current work examines the crisis i
 n Japanese professional baseball of 2004 as a means to understand the natu
 re of change in Japan during the early Heisei period (1989-2009). A long-t
 ime member of the Alaska World Affairs Council\, Dr. Dunscomb has served a
 s Board Chair\, Program Committee Chair\, WorldQuest and World Wiz Master 
 Emcee\, featured speaker\, and featured moderator\, among other roles.\n\n
 \n\nPost-Event Podcast\nIf you missed this event you can now listen to a p
 odcast of the discussion courtesy of Alaska Public Media by clicking the l
 ink below:\n\nhttps://www.alaskapublic.org/2017/10/09/many-traditions-one-
 alaska-teaching-alaskas-connected-history/\n\n
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