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Join David M. Perry in conversation with James Eli Shiffer to discuss his new book The Public Scholar: A Practical Handbook at Moon Palace Books on Thursday June 25th at 7:00pm. This is an in-person event and masking is optional. We offer free masks at the front door, but deeply appreciate you bringing your own!
Public scholarship should not be reserved for celebrity intellectuals or tenured faculty at elite institutions. It's designed for anyone who wants to share their academic work and engage with the public beyond the classroom or conference panel. In The Public Scholar, historian and journalist David M. Perry offers a clear, candid, and practical guide to writing for public audiences.
Perry's accessible approach invites scholars at all stages to consider what public engagement might look like in their own lives. Whether you're hoping to write for major newspapers, connect with communities beyond your discipline, or simply make your research more visible, The Public Scholar offers the right tools to help you get started.
David M. Perry is the associate director of undergraduate studies in history at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities. He is the author of Sacred Plunder: Venice and the Aftermath of the Fourth Crusade and a coauthor of The Bright Ages: A New History of Medieval Europe and Oathbreakers: The War of Brothers That Shattered an Empire and Made Medieval Europe.
James Eli Shiffer is a Minneapolis-based journalist and nonfiction writer who spent more than 30 years in newspapers before retiring in 2025. He was part of a team at the Minnesota Star Tribune that won a Pulitzer Prize and Polk Award in 2021 for coverage of the police murder of George Floyd and the aftermath. He's the author of the “King of Skid Row: John Bacich and the Twilight Years of Old Minneapolis” (University of Minnesota Press, 2016) and is currently writing a history of the American swamp.
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3032 Minnehaha Ave, Minneapolis, MN, United States, Minnesota 55406
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