People and Projects

For more on the students, faculty, and alumni of the MTSU Public History program, please tale a look at our newsletters, past and present:


Winter 2009 :  Martha Norkunas; Spencer Crew; “Still Perfect on the ACA Exam”; Shacklett’s Photography Conservation Project; Internships and Graduating Students, 2008;  In Memoriam: Dr. Thaddeus Smith; Alumni Spotlight: Kent Whitworth, director of the Kentucky Historical Society (Frankfort, Kentucky).

Summer 2008 : Michael Tomlan; “Uncovering Cemetery: A Cultural Landscape Project” poster session at NCPH in Louisville; Internships and Residenies; Mississippi Blues Trail; Museum Exhibit: “Beyond the Plantation: Slavery, Emancipation, and Oaklands”; Alumni Spotlight: Pete LaPaglia, in memoriam.

Fall 2007 :  Tara Mielnik awarded first Ph.D. in Public History; Elizabeth Snowden wins Theodore Calvin Pease Award from Society of American Archivists; Dorothy Davis presents at Public Memory and Ethnicity Conference; Museum Exhibit: "The Time That Changed Everything: Murfreesboro's Civil War Era"; Interpreting African American History at Jekyll Island; African Americans and the Cultural Landscapes of Stones River National Battlefield; Harry Klinkhamer publishes AASLH technical leaflet on interpreting suburbia; Alumni Spotlight: Don Rooney, curator of urban and regional history, Atlanta History Center (Atlanta, Georgia).

Spring 2007 : Trudy Huskamp Peterson; Cultural Landscapes Project; TAM Award: “Recovering Their Story: African Americans on the Davis Plantation”; National Register Nomination: Nelson Distillery; Website for Heritage Partnership of Rutherford County; Graduate Student Films Shown at NCPH in Santa Fe;  Historic Rock Fences; Mississippi Blues Commission; Exhibit: “No Longer on the Sidelines: 35 Years of Title IX at MTSU.”

Fall 2006 : David McCullough; “Rethinking the Civil War at 150 Years: A Public Forum”; SAEC Annual Meeting at MTSU; Heritage Partnership of Rutherford County; Graduate Student Films; Museum Exhibit: “Recovering Their Story: African Americans on the Davis Plantation”; New and Graduating Students, 2005-2006; Alumni Spotlight: Rhonda Wilson Young, archivist, Clinton Presidential Library (Little Rock, Arkansas).

Spring 2006 : “From Historic Preservation to Public History”;  Dwight Pitcaithley; Student Profiles: Steve Hoskins, Tara Mielnik, Bill Nelligan, Gwynn Thayer; 2005 graduates; Entering Students, 2005; Alumni Spotlight: Teresa Brum, preservation officer for the city/county of Spokane, Washington, David Brum, Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture (Spokane), Lyles Forbes, curator of the Small Craft Collection, Mariner's Museum (Newport News, Virginia), and Dawn Muir Frost, architectural historian and preservation planner, Vanasse Brustlin Inc. (Williamsburg, Virginia).


See also: Common Bond, the newsletter of the Center for Historic Preservation