Public History Ph.D.

Nov 19, 2024

PhD student, Michael Verville, hosts a cemetery clean up and restoration workshop for Public History students

PhD student, Michael Verville, shows Public History students how to repair and restore cemetery monuments.

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 27, 2024

Public History PhD student, Wendy Vencel, Awarded MAA/GSC Grant from Medieval Academy of America

Public History PhD student, Wendy Vencel, has been awarded a grant from the Medieval Academy of America for her summer internship project, "Ballintober Bonds."

Nov 20, 2023

Public History PhD Candidate, Mandy Paige-Lovingood, Awarded Doctoral Dissertation Completion Grant

The Graduate School awards a total of eight Doctoral Dissertation Grants to the whole University in the spring 2024 semester. This year, two of our PhD candidates received the awards. This article highlights awardee, Mandy Paige-Lovingood's research, prior awards and future plans.

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…

Apr 20, 2023

Public History Ph.D. students, Shima Hosseininasab and Jason Boan present their research at the 2023 National Council for Public History conference

Public History Ph.D. students, Shima Hosseininasab and Jason Boan, held a workshop at the Digital Public History Lab (DPHL) on Monuments and Spatial Patterns on April 12. The workshop was part of the 2023 National Council for Public History (NCPH) annual conference. Monuments and Spatial Patterns is an online, interactive digital public history project which…

Jan 9, 2023

Back to Back Graduation and Dissertation Publication for Public History PhD alum, Petros Apostolopoulos, ’22

We are pleased to announce that the dissertation of Public History PhD alum Petros Apostolopoulos, ’22 will be published by DeGruyter in 2023 with the title From Consumers to Producers of History: The Production of Historical Knowledge on Wikipedia. Petros graduated in summer 2022 and participated in our December graduation ceremony. He is currently a Postdoctoral…

Nov 2, 2022

Public History PhD candidate, Shima Hosseininasab, is finalist in 3MT competition

Public History PhD student Shima Hosseininasab makes it into the top 10 at 3MT challenge.

Jul 13, 2022

Public History PhD Student, Mandy Paige-Lovingood, Talks Turquerie

Public History PhD student, Mandy Paige-Lovingood, received two grants which will enable her to pursue her research on Turquerie in Europe and Asia.

Jun 29, 2022

Public History Doctoral Graduate Accepts Postdoctoral Research Position in Digital History

Public History Doctoral Graduate Petros Apostolopoulos accepted an appointment as Postdoctoral Researcher at the Luxembourg Center for Contemporary and Digital History at the University of Luxembourg.