Center for
Public History
University of West Georgia
Faculty and Staff    
Center Director Dr. Ann McCleary
Assistant Director: Ms. Sandy Pollard
One of the primary goals of the Center is to provide an opportunity for faculty-student research projects. Each semester, graduate students, working as Graduate Research Assistants, coordinate research projects, with help from undergraduate research assistants and interns. Students receive hands-on experience by directing projects and conducting primary research. The Center invites any students--graduate or undergraduate--to consider an internship at the Center. Please contact either Dr. McCleary or Ms. Pollard for current internship opportunities.
Staff for the 2008-9 academic year
Graduate Research Assistants Katie Hicks, Kristi Hartmann, and Shanda Davidson are working on resources to accompany the Georgia Tour of "Key Ingredients: America by Food," for the Georgia Humanities Council.
Sandy Pollard and Graduate Research Assistant Angie Ramirez are continuing the Regional Music Project, which includes a new initiative to document Latino music traditions in western Georgia.
Sandy Pollard and Graduate Research Assistant Nick Gray are coordinating the Veterans History project, including our traveling trunks on World War II and the Cold War..
Undergraduate research assistant Lauren Miller continues to work on the textile and apparel industy website, assisted this semester by Shanda Davidson who is helping with the educational component.
Morgan Carraway is helping the City of Bremen develop a new museum focusing on its railroad and apparel industry history.
Nick Gray is helping with our administrative organization, including revisions to our Policies and Procedures manual.
Shannon Smith is the Joseph Johnson Fellow for the Georgia Music Hall of Fame in the 2007-8 academic year. She spents some of her time in Macon, but other days working on projects for the Museum at the Center.
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Public
History Center
History Department
University of West Georgia
Carrollton, GA 30118
678 -839-6141