Students

Aug 29, 2024

Exhibiting Creativity

A public history doctoral student and an arts studies alumna work with the visual arts to provide a vital framework to help address some of today’s grand challenges.

Apr 22, 2024

Public History MA student, Alana Gomez, curates Special Collections Research Center’s newest exhibit.

Public History MA student, Alana Gomez, blogs about her experience curating a new exhibit at the Special Collections Research Center at D.H. Hill Jr. Library.

Apr 11, 2024

Doctoral Student Nancy Fields Curates Major Exhibit at North Carolina Museum of Art

Doctoral student, Nancy Fields, curated a major exhibit at the North Carolina Museum of Art on contemporary American Indian art.

Mar 7, 2024

Topics in History and Memory: The Pinehurst/Taylortown Project

As part of her Fall 2023 HI 563 course: Topics in History and Memory, Dr. Gwyneth Thayer brought her students to Pinehurst and the African-American community of Taylortown to analyze the ways in which public memory and heritage tourism are represented.

Sep 28, 2023

My Summer Internship at Reynolda House Museum of American Art

This post was written by Evan Stevens, a third-year undergraduate student who is double majoring in History & Political Science with a minor in International Studies. Last Summer he completed an internship at Reynolda House Museum of American Art for his HI 390: Internship in History course. This summer, I had the pleasure of being…

Sep 12, 2023

Public History in Prague – A Tale of Two Students

This past summer, both undergraduate and graduate students traveled for two weeks with Public History faculty members Drs. Alicia McGill and Verena Kasper-Marienberg to Prague, Czech Republic as part of a program administered through the NC State Study Abroad Office, in partnership with NC State’s European Center. To get students’ perspectives on the trip, we followed…

May 31, 2022

Weaving a Bright Future

Private support enabled Lara Rabinowitz ’22 to study on campus and abroad during her time at NC State, all while combining seemingly different majors in seamless ways.

May 17, 2022

Researching, Sharing Histories of Marginalized People in the South

Public history graduate student Sarah Waugh researches the histories of marginalized people in the South to present a comprehensive portrayal of the past.

Mar 8, 2021

Student Spotlight: Megan Snyder

While taking a course with Susanna Lee, communication major Megan Snyder explored the history of the Stone Mountain Monument Memorial. She'll present her research at the 21st Annual Undergraduate Honors Symposium at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

May 14, 2018

Congratulations Class of 2018!

We are proud to announce Taylor Greene, Stephanie Merinoff, Ryan Lenzmeier and Derrick Kay as our newest recipients of the Master of Arts degree in History and Austin Robinson, Gillian Mahoney, Xavier Klonowski, Anna Killian, Claire Du Laney, Taylor de Klerk, Teddi Burnett, Leah Bullard, Sarah Almond, and Mary Albritton as our newest recipients of the Master…