Public History
Graduate Program
Public History
Public History is most identifiable as the presentation of history and culture outside of the traditional classroom setting. These pursuits include, but are by no means limited to, museums, historic preservation, historic site management, archival management, cultural resource management, and policy applications. Working from this tradition, the Public History program, established in 1980, stresses an interdisciplinary approach to the field. It does so in the hope of preparing professionals to engage the widest public audience in the continually emerging questions of history and culture.
The Public History program seeks to train socially responsible professionals who can facilitate historical awareness in diverse venues on the local and regional level. With the aim of making history a useful educational and planning tool in communities, the Public History program employs a unique and rich blend of resources and methodologies and emphasizes public history practice in ecological terms through the examination of regional environments, places, and economic systems.
Public History Faculty
Sikarskie, Amanda. Public History; Museum Studies; digital history, quilt history
Public History Contributing Faculty
Borish, Linda J. American Studies; Women, Sport and Health History; Rural History; Material Culture
Brandão, José António. American Indian; Canada; Comparative Colonial; Ethnohistory
Carlson, Sharon. Director, Archives and Regional History Collections; Archival Administration; Women and Organizations; 19th-century U.S.
Coryell, Janet. 19th-century U.S.; Documentary Editing
Kachun, Mitch. African American History; memory and commemoration