Welcome to a special mini series from the Podcast Learning Network! The Podcast Learning Network (PLN) hosted a series of expert discussion panels to explore different aspects of podcasting. This episode is a live recording of the January 19, 2024 discussion about building a podcast brand and online community.
Our guest experts are:
Christine Caccipuoti is a historian (MA, Fordham University) who co-hosts and co-produces the podcast Footnoting History. Launched in 2013, Footnoting History features a rotation of historian-hosts who create short episodes covering lesser-known topics in world history for the public. It has been downloaded over 3 million times and consists of more than 280 episodes. In her capacity as a podcasting scholar, Christine co-edited Independent Scholars Meet the World: Expanding Academia beyond the Academy (University Press of Kansas, 2020) and spoken about podcasting at conferences like Intelligent Speech, Sound Education, and the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians. Further, she has explored the history and legacy of Elton John’s “Candle in the Wind 1997” for One-Track Mind: Capitalism, Technology, and the Art of the Pop Song (Routledge, 2022) and contributed to American National Biography. More about Christine can be found at ChristineCaccipuoti.com, while Footnoting History can be found as @footnotinghistory on YouTube, Instagram and Facebook.
Jim Ambuske is a Historian and Senior Producer at R2 Studios, the podcast division of the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University. At R2 Studios, Ambuske produces, creates, and hosts narrative history podcasts for general audiences. He is the executive producer of The Green Tunnel Podcast, and is the creator, writer, and narrator of Worlds Turned Upside Down, a podcast about the history of the American Revolution. He is the former producer and host of the podcast, Conversations at the Washington Library, and with Jeanette Patrick, co-created and co-wrote the narrative documentary series, Intertwined: The Enslaved Community at George Washington’s Mount Vernon.
John R. Heckman is known to thousands online as The Tattooed Historian. Currently embarking on his inaugural year as a PhD student in Interdisciplinary Humanities here at Brock, John is adapting to his new Canadian lifestyle. Originally from Pennsylvania, USA, he has devoted himself to ensuring the accessibility of history to a wide audience through social media, gaming, live-streamed and in-person events, and his engaging podcast, The Tattooed Historian Show, where he discusses a plethora of historical topics with authors, researchers, and other leaders in their fields.
About the Podcast Learning Network
The Podcast Learning Network is funded by the Faculty of Humanities and facilitated by Alison Innes. Events are organized in collaboration with the Department of Digital Humanities, Makerspace, and Office of Research Services. Learn more and sign up for event notifications on the PLN website.
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Foreword is produced by Alison Innes for the Faculty of Humanities at Brock University.
Sound editing for this episode is by Andrew Camacho. Theme music is by Khalid Imam.
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