Our students and alumni are helping to build The Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia, (philadelphiaencyclopedia.org) a digital-first research and civic engagement project produced on our campus at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Center for the Humanities (MARCH). Graduate students and recent graduate program alumni working on the project during 2015-16 include Mikaela Maria (editorial assistant, essay author, and web-page builder), Scott Hearn (web-page builder, essay author, and social media manager), Arthur Murphy (web-page builder), and Sharece Blakney (fact-checker). The work is supported by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Category: Alumni News
Alumnus Nicholas Wood Is the Clay Fellow at Yale this Year
Our alumnus Nic Wood is the Cassius Marcellus Clay Postdoctoral Associate in Early American History at Yale University.
Check out the news here: https://history.yale.edu/people/nicholas-wood
Alumna News
Congratulations to our alumna Terry Potter on her new position as Director of the J. Welles Henderson Archive & Library at the Independent Seaport Museum in Philadelphia.
We’ll hope to send some of our Public History graduate students her way to complete their internships!
New Book by Alumnus Evan Laine
Congratulations to Evan Laine on the publication of Nixon and the Dragon Lady: Did Richard Nixon Conspire with Anna Chennault in 1968 to Destroy Peace in Vietnam (Humanities Press). The book began life as a capstone project in our graduate program.
You can read about the author and order the book here: https://thehumanities.cgpublisher.com/product/pub.61/prod.51
Congratulations to Alumna Mandi Magnuson-Hung
Alumna Mandi Magnuson-Hung (M.A. Public History, 2013) has accepted a position as curator at the Philadelphia History Museum.The museum presents and interprets the history of Wells Fargo, as well as banking history in Philadelphia and the Delaware Valley. In addition to overseeing the daily operation of the museum, Mandi will help coordinate educational programs, tours, and special events.
If you’re going to be in Center City, drop in and say hi and congratulations!