Public History Projects
My public history projects range from interpretive plans to exhibit development, highlighting the various ways to engage with the public. Click on the underlined links or explore the images for more information.
Orange Mound Driving Tour
The finished driving tour was the product of fieldwork, archival research, and working closely with community members and the Melrose Center for Cultural Enrichment, an organization that seeks to create a local heritage and geneaological center. The residents of Orange Mound, both past and present, and visitors to the neighborhood can now explore the history of the area's many churches, schools, and community institutions.
Historic Engel Stadium
Produced a Heritage Development Assessment for the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga's (UTC) Historic Engel Stadium. Provided UTC with a sustainable business plan comprised of suggestions for structural improvements, interpretative walking tours, museum exhibits, and marketing opportunities. My role involved planning strategies for permanent exhibits at the stadium and a traveling exhibit to advertise the site and educate the local community.
RUCA Interpretive Plan
Glen Leven Walking Tour
This walking tour serves the Land Trust for Tennessee's Glen Leven Farm as an hour-long, self-guided tour of the property to connect visitors with trees and the rich family history of the nineteenth-century plantation.
Multi-component project with extensive research to produce an interpretive framework for nineteenth-century African American history at Russell Cave National Monument (RUCA) in Jackson County, Alabama. The finished report serves as an educational tool for park staff to develop informed programming and as a foundation for future research. Using my initial work, I created a public program I presented at RUCA in March. You can find the Powerpoint for the program here.
Archaeology Preservation Plan
Composed a report for the Land Trust for Tennessee's Glen Leven Farm to educate their staff and board members on the significant archaeological assets on the property and an action plan for preservation.
Maury County Driving Tour
In collaboration with the African American Heritage Society of Maury County, Tennessee, my group produced a driving tour by first surveying the county and then researching each site. The tour narrative and images direct the public to historically significant African American churches, cemeteries, schools, and other important sites throughout the county landscape.
Gore Center Exhibits
Gore Center Exhibits
During my time at the Albert Gore Research Center, I developed two exhibits to highlight our collections and promote our outreach mission. Acting in a team of four graduate assistants, we were responsible for researching topics, developing interpretation, and collaborating with the university's design service to produce a finished product with mounted wall panels, object cases, and handouts.
Cemetery Community Smartphone Tour
Our project group developed interpretation and a conceptual framework for a smartphone driving tour of the Cemetery Community, which was a lost community on the grounds of what is now Stones River National Battlefield in Murfreesboro, Tennessee.
