Laura Caldwell Anderson is the Assistant Archivist for the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute. This position involves maintaining the collection, working with researchers, helping to plan new in-house and traveling exhibits, and publishing stories gathered in the Institute’s on-going oral history program.
Justin Arrington, who earned a Public History Certificate and an M.A. in History at West Georgia, works for New South Associates in Stone Mountain, Georgia.
Teresa Beyer, who completed her M.A. in History and the Museum Studies Certificate in May of 2004, works as the Historian/Curator at a state park documenting a historic prison site.
Erin Brasfield, who completed her degree in May 2004, works at a museum in Jasper, Wyoming. She previously worked as an interpretive supervisor at the Brinegar Farm site on the Blue Ridge Parkway and also interned or worked at several NPS sites, including the NPS Southeast Regional Office, the Carl Sandburg Historic Site, Andersonville Historic Site, and Kennesaw Battlefield National Historic Site.
Mick Buck is the Curator of Collections at the Country Music Hall of Fame in Nashville, Tennessee. He still consults with the Center for Public History for our Regional Music Project.
Melissa Buchanan is collections manager at Patriot's Point in Charleston, South Carolina.
Mike Bunn, who earned a Museum Studies Certificate from UWG, is the curator at the Columbus Museum of History and recently published a book entitled Battle for the Southern Frontier: The Creek War and the War of 1812.
Amanda Corman is an outreach teacher at the Atlanta History Center.
Anna Davis, a new graduate student in the M.A. program, works as an education assistant at the Marietta Museum of History.
Nik Fields has moved all the way to Maui, Hawaii, to work as a visitor use assistant at the Haleakala National Park, where he also helps with interpretation of the Hawaiian Natural History Association.
Hilary Morish worked as Collections Manager at the Jeckyl Island, off the coast of Brunswick, Georgia.
Mark Barron, previously an historian with the Georgia Department of Transportation, now works for a cultural resource management firm in Texas.
Heather Bostwick Howell is working at Kennesaw University in its Civil War Center. She was formerly a registrar with the Atlanta History Center, a registrar at the Booth Western Art Museum, and Special Collections librarian at the Rome-Floyd County Public Library.
Diane Erdeljac is historian/archivist for Piedmont Hospital, in Atlanta, documenting the hospital’s first hundred years.
Emily Erwin Weaver is director of the Capps Museum and Archives at Delta State University, in Cleveland, Mississippi. She formerly worked as archives collections manager with the Atlanta History Center.
Benita Green Duling is an interpreter at the Kennesaw Mountain Battlefield Park, National Park Service, Kennesaw, GA. She had previously worked at the Martin Luther King Historic Site in Atlanta, GA.
Trey Gaines is director of the Bartow History Center in Cartersville, Georgia.
Jihan George Bradford puts her oral history and research skills to work at the Social Security office in Atlanta.
Lindsay Gustafson works at the Jimmy Carter Museum and Library in Atlanta, where she helps with registration and curatorial activities.
Amy Grundhoeffer is the Curator at the Marrietta Museum of History, in Marietta, Georgia.
Ashley Judy works at the Southeast Regional office of the National Archives in Morrow, where she helps with public programs.
Rebecca Lapczynski Hebert is Records Manager for the City of Douglasville, GA. She previously worked as an archivist and records manager at the Alabama State Archives in Montgomery, AL.
Catherine Hendricks is a special projects manager at the Ingram Library at the University of West Georgia, where she helps with exhibits, programming, and other types of community outreach.
Trevor Lanier is the curator of the Tennessee Valley Railroad Authority Museum in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
Carla Ledgerwood is working in the registration and curatorial areas at the Jimmy Carter Museum and Library, which is in the process of creating a new exhibit.
Terri Lotti is an archaeologist with the Georgia Department of Transportation. She also currently serves as the vice-chair of the History Committee for the City of Villa Rica, Georgia.
Penny McMillan, who earned a Museum Studies Certificate, works at the Swan House at the Atlanta History Center, after working as Curator at Bulloch Hall.
Sally Moreland works as a registration assistant at the Atlanta History Center, helping with the Military History Collection.
Amanda Mros is an archivist at the Georgia Archives.
Linda Orrell is curator at the Meteetsie Historical Society in Meteetsie, Wyoming.
Nikki Patterson Cantrell spent two years working as the assistant registrar at the Atlanta History Center, but left to go into business on her own.
Noelle Pearce Totten worked as the Registrar at the Marietta Museum of History.
Sandy Pollard, who earned her Museum Studies Certificate at UWG, is interim director of the Center for Public History.
Jill Sauser, who earned a Museum Studies Certificate, has been working as a museum consultant.
Amy Storey Simon is assistant registrar with the High Museum of Art, Atlanta. She had previously worked as a registrar at the Atlanta History Center.
Heather Thayer Ridgeway is a eduator at the Georgia Capital Museum.
Deborah Thomas
is the Registrar at the Atlanta History Center. Before that, she was Curator
at the St. Simon’s Lighthouse on St. Simon’s Island,
Carey Tilley, formerly the director of the Chieftains Museum in Rome, Georgia, now works as Executive Director of the Cherokee Museum in Oklahoma.
Sue VerHoef is the reading room manager at the Kenan Research Center at the Atlanta History Center.
Arden Williams
is a program officer with the Georgia Humanities Council. She previously worked
as an archives technician in the National Archives, Southeast Region, at East
Point,
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