2017 Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Genders and Sexualities

June 01 - 04, 2017

Podcasts are a burgeoning format for bridging the gap between academia and the public. Like many up-and-coming Digital Humanities projects, producing an interesting and engaging podcast is a way to make important and otherwise unappreciated scholarship accessible to a much broader audience. Scholars at any stage of their career with the wherewithal and interest in these non-traditional media can create their own podcasts—and this workshop will help get them started.

The History Buffs and Footnoting History are both independent, free-to-access history podcasts that were both founded by small groups of history graduate students with little to no money. Footnoting History, launched in 2013, now gets 25,000 downloads every month; History Buffs, a relatively new venture (November 2015) is slowly but steadily growing its listener base.  The producers are excited to share their experiences in getting started in the podcast work, and to guide participants through the processes of starting their own cast.

This workshop seeks to help scholars seeking to start their own podcast: from envisioning a podcast concept, to building a website and finding a domain to host the casts, to connecting to other podcasters and building an audience. We welcome participants at various stages of podcasting producing, whether it is just a pipedream or it is struggling to get listeners or find a voice in the milieu of history podcasts. 

Workshop leaders:

Averill Earls (History Buffs podcast)

Marissa Rhodes (History Buffs podcast)

Elizabeth Keohane-Burbridge (Footnoting History)

Christine Caccipuoti (Footnoting History)