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Spotlight on Inclusive Excellence: Graduate Colloquium in Public History students

This month, the History department recognizes  our Spring 2023 Graduate Colloquium in Public History students for our DEI Spotlight feature.

Students in the HIST 8770 Public History class with Professor James Brooks participated in the 2023 National Council on Public History (NCPH) conference in Atlanta. Students presented in the Poster Exhibition, attended Sessions, and presented the exhibit on Indigenizing Athens that will later be installed at the Historic Athens Welcome Center. Participating students included Maya Brooks, Lyn Hemmingway, Tedi Light, Maggie Neel, Rory Oates, Ariana Persico, Jamie Weiss, and Cole Wicker.

Posters were submitted by Cole Wicker, Seeing the Buried Past: An Interpretive History of the Deep River Coal Field,  and Maya Brooks, Reinterpreting Gone With The Wind at the Atlanta History Center.

Maya Brooks also participated in the Working Group 'American Girl Dolls and Public History', which discussed the increased prominence of American Girl dolls (and the history they portray) through food studies, meme culture, the material culture of childhood, K-12 education, Civil Rights, queerness, and neurodiversity.

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