Mary Rizzo
Biographic Data
| ID | 3782949 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mary Rizzo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mary |
| FAMILY NAME | Rizzo |
| SIGNATURE | RIZZO M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Minnesota System |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5440-3169 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Dismantling the Old Boys’ Club
The #MeToo Movement of the late 2010s spurred public conversation about the prevalence of sexual harassment across the for-profit, nonprofit, and public sectors, including by public historians.1 In response, the National Council on Public History (NCPH) and the American Association for State and Local History (AASLH) formed a joint committee to address issues of gender discrimination and sexual harassment (GDSH). Our committee conducted a nationa…
Black Arts Cities
Marc Stein. Queer Public History
Journal Article Marc Stein. Queer Public History: Essays on Scholarly Activism. Get access Marc Stein. Queer Public History: Essays on Scholarly Activism. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2022. Pp. 354. Paper $29.95. Mary Rizzo Mary Rizzo Rutgers University, US Email: [email protected] https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5440-3169 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Vol…
Who Speaks for Baltimore
In 1980, Baltimore Voices, a play written from the transcripts of 200 interviews with elderly working-class Baltimore residents taken as part of the Baltimore Neighborhood Heritage Project (BNHP), was seen by thousands of people in Baltimore and on public television. Created by left-leaning oral and public historians, the play was intended to center the voices of white and African American Baltimore residents. However, Baltimore Voices fumbled it…
Reading against the grain, finding the voices of the detained
Every day approximately 34,000 people are held in immigration detention centers across the United States, including asylum seekers fleeing persecution and violence. Yet they are often invisible in our public discourse about immigration and mass incarceration. For the Humanities Action Lab’s States of Incarceration traveling exhibition, students at Rutgers University–Newark researched a “riot” that occurred at a New Jersey detention center in 1995…
History at Work, History as Work
Public History and Mass Incarceration
Nonprofit human rights organization John Brown Lives! uses local and regional history as a tool to raise contemporary questions around racial injustice, inspired by the work of controversial abolitionist leader John Brown. In this interview, founder Martha Swan discusses how John Brown Lives! uses public history, from a series of community conversations around mass incarceration and drug laws to a traveling exhibit on voting rights in nineteenth …
Los Angeles Displays Itself
Review Article| November 01 2013 Los Angeles Displays Itself Mary Rizzo Mary Rizzo Mary Rizzo, Public Historian in Residence at The Mid-Atlantic Regional Center for the Humanities, Rutgers University—Camden, is the new Co-Editor of The Public Historian. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar The Public Historian (2013) 35 (4): 40–43. https://doi.org/10.1525/tph.2013.35.4.40 Views Icon Views Article contents Figu…
Hon-ouring the past
Baltimore, Maryland’s annual HonFest, has been criticized for its caricatured portrayal of the Baltimore Hon, a white working‐class woman from the mid‐twentieth century. Created to promote local businesses, the event seeks to draw tourists to a gentrifying neighbourhood. However, for a core group of Hon re‐enactors a shared definition of working‐class femininity allows them to subvert the individualised consumption spurred by the event by creatin…
Culinary Tourism
A Consumer's Republic
A Consumer's Republic
Reading against the grain, finding the voices of the detained
Every day approximately 34,000 people are held in immigration detention centers across the United States, including asylum seekers fleeing persecution and violence. Yet they are often invisible in our public discourse about immigration and mass incarceration. For the Humanities Action Lab’s States of Incarceration traveling exhibition, students at Rutgers University–Newark researched a “riot” that occurred at a New Jersey detention center in 1995…
Hon-ouring the past
Baltimore, Maryland’s annual HonFest, has been criticized for its caricatured portrayal of the Baltimore Hon, a white working‐class woman from the mid‐twentieth century. Created to promote local businesses, the event seeks to draw tourists to a gentrifying neighbourhood. However, for a core group of Hon re‐enactors a shared definition of working‐class femininity allows them to subvert the individualised consumption spurred by the event by creatin…
Public History and Mass Incarceration
Nonprofit human rights organization John Brown Lives! uses local and regional history as a tool to raise contemporary questions around racial injustice, inspired by the work of controversial abolitionist leader John Brown. In this interview, founder Martha Swan discusses how John Brown Lives! uses public history, from a series of community conversations around mass incarceration and drug laws to a traveling exhibit on voting rights in nineteenth …
Los Angeles Displays Itself
Review Article| November 01 2013 Los Angeles Displays Itself Mary Rizzo Mary Rizzo Mary Rizzo, Public Historian in Residence at The Mid-Atlantic Regional Center for the Humanities, Rutgers University—Camden, is the new Co-Editor of The Public Historian. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar The Public Historian (2013) 35 (4): 40–43. https://doi.org/10.1525/tph.2013.35.4.40 Views Icon Views Article contents Figu…
Culinary Tourism
A Consumer's Republic
Hon-ouring the past
Baltimore, Maryland’s annual HonFest, has been criticized for its caricatured portrayal of the Baltimore Hon, a white working‐class woman from the mid‐twentieth century. Created to promote local businesses, the event seeks to draw tourists to a gentrifying neighbourhood. However, for a core group of Hon re‐enactors a shared definition of working‐class femininity allows them to subvert the individualised consumption spurred by the event by creatin…
Los Angeles Displays Itself
Review Article| November 01 2013 Los Angeles Displays Itself Mary Rizzo Mary Rizzo Mary Rizzo, Public Historian in Residence at The Mid-Atlantic Regional Center for the Humanities, Rutgers University—Camden, is the new Co-Editor of The Public Historian. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar The Public Historian (2013) 35 (4): 40–43. https://doi.org/10.1525/tph.2013.35.4.40 Views Icon Views Article contents Figu…
Public History and Mass Incarceration
Nonprofit human rights organization John Brown Lives! uses local and regional history as a tool to raise contemporary questions around racial injustice, inspired by the work of controversial abolitionist leader John Brown. In this interview, founder Martha Swan discusses how John Brown Lives! uses public history, from a series of community conversations around mass incarceration and drug laws to a traveling exhibit on voting rights in nineteenth …
History at Work, History as Work
Reading against the grain, finding the voices of the detained
Every day approximately 34,000 people are held in immigration detention centers across the United States, including asylum seekers fleeing persecution and violence. Yet they are often invisible in our public discourse about immigration and mass incarceration. For the Humanities Action Lab’s States of Incarceration traveling exhibition, students at Rutgers University–Newark researched a “riot” that occurred at a New Jersey detention center in 1995…
Who Speaks for Baltimore
In 1980, Baltimore Voices, a play written from the transcripts of 200 interviews with elderly working-class Baltimore residents taken as part of the Baltimore Neighborhood Heritage Project (BNHP), was seen by thousands of people in Baltimore and on public television. Created by left-leaning oral and public historians, the play was intended to center the voices of white and African American Baltimore residents. However, Baltimore Voices fumbled it…
Marc Stein. Queer Public History
Journal Article Marc Stein. Queer Public History: Essays on Scholarly Activism. Get access Marc Stein. Queer Public History: Essays on Scholarly Activism. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2022. Pp. 354. Paper $29.95. Mary Rizzo Mary Rizzo Rutgers University, US Email: [email protected] https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5440-3169 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Vol…
Black Arts Cities
Dismantling the Old Boys’ Club
The #MeToo Movement of the late 2010s spurred public conversation about the prevalence of sexual harassment across the for-profit, nonprofit, and public sectors, including by public historians.1 In response, the National Council on Public History (NCPH) and the American Association for State and Local History (AASLH) formed a joint committee to address issues of gender discrimination and sexual harassment (GDSH). Our committee conducted a nationa…
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