Three graduate students have received Internship Completion Awards for the fall semester: Kimberly Coulter, who interned with the Remer & Talbott consulting firm; Kathleen Leonard, who interned at the Please Touch Museum; and Benjamin Thompson, who interned at the Urban Archives, Temple University, and The Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia. These awards of up to $500 are given to students who complete public history internships successfully with a grade of A or B and whose costs of tuition exceeded their compensation for the internships. The funds were donated to the Mid-Atlantic Regional Center for the Humanities (MARCH) to honor the retirement of Howard Gillette, who requested that they be used to support graduate training in public history.
Month: March 2013
Join Professor Charlene Mires at the Philadelphia History Museum, April 3
Professor Charlene Mires will discuss her book, Capital of the World: The Race to Host the United Nations at the Philadelphia History Museum on April 3, from 5-7 p.m. Register here https://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/event?oeidk=a07e75sashf8e50ea7f&llr=9mazh9cab
You can read her blog at https://capital-of-the-world.com/
Ahoy!
Current student William Roulette has been hired as a tour guide on the Battleship New Jersey. https://www.battleshipnewjersey.org/
Off to Work
Congratulations to Mandi Magnuson-Hung who completed her public history MA degree in December and has been hired as a museum assistant at the Wells Fargo Museum in Philadelphia. https://www.wellsfargohistory.com/museums/philadelphia/
Read All About It!
Graduate students in the spring semester 2013 Historic Interpretation Seminar are blogging about their research on the Cooper Street Historic District. https://cooperstreet.wordpress.com/
They’ll be leading some tours for the Public History Community Forum and we’ll let you know about the times and dates so you can join them.