Public History M.A.

Oct 16, 2024

Meet our Alumni: Kelly Arnold, ’23

Kelly Arnold graduated from our Public History MA program in 2023 and now serves as Programs and Events Coordinator with the Alliance for Historic Hillsborough. She shared her story with us.

May 8, 2023

Meet Our Outstanding 2023 Spring and Summer Graduates!

We would like to congratulate our History MA and Public History PhD and MA 2022 graduates. We wish them the best of luck as they go out into the world. Public History PhD Students Gevorg Vardanyan completed his dissertation  – “Remembering Medz Yeghern: Armenian Genocide and Armenian Americans, 1890s–1965” under the direction of Dr. Tammy…

Feb 7, 2023

Public History MA Student Organizes Public History Series on Civil War Campaign

Kaitlin O’Connor, a public history master’s candidate and historical interpreter at Fort Fisher State Historic Site, partnered with the New Hanover County Library and Cameron Art Museum for a new public history series designed to commemorate a more inclusive, full history.

Dec 20, 2022

Public History PhD Candidate JoCora Moore attends the Southern Historical Association Conference in Baltimore, Maryland

Public History PhD candidate, JoCora Moore, talks about her experience presenting her research at the Southern Historical Association Conference.

Jul 18, 2022

MA Student Jim Wrenn Instrumental in Award Supporting Documentary on Black Environmental Activism in North Carolina

Jim Wrenn is a History MA student and serves as vice president of The Phoenix Historical Society: African American History of Edgecombe County, a non-profit organization founded to “to recover, record, and promote the history of African Americans in Edgecombe County, North Carolina.

May 9, 2022

Meet our Outstanding Spring and Summer 2022 Graduates

Read all about our outstanding Public History and History MA and Public History PhD 2022 graduates!

Dec 6, 2021

“Think and Moo” Exhibit on Display in Withers Hall

The HI 591 Museum Studies class unveils a new exhibit in Withers Hall.

May 14, 2021

Meet Our Outstanding Spring 2021 Public History and History MA Graduates

Covid 19 did not stop another outstanding group of Public History and History MA students from graduating this Spring.

May 12, 2020

Meet our Outstanding Spring 2020 MA and PhD Graduates

We would like to congratulate our History MA and Public History MA graduates as well as our first ever Public History PhD 2020 graduate. We wish them the best of luck as they go out into this strange, new world.

Nov 19, 2019

Public History MA Alumna, Claire Du Laney,’18 named Outreach Archivist and Assistant Professor at UNO

Claire Du Laney, Graduate Public History Alumna '18, named Outreach Archivist and Assistant Professor for the Archives and Special Collections department at the University of Nebraska Omaha.