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Rebecca Conard <rconard@mtsu.edu> Middle Tennessee State University Currently working on a public history text book that will provide a theoretical perspective on practice. |
| Address: | Department of History, Box 23 Middle Tennessee State University Murfreesboro, Tennessee 37132 United States |
| Primary Phone: | 615-898-2423 |
| Fax Number: | 615-898-5881 |
| Web Page: | http://none |
| List Affiliations: | Advisory Board Member for H-Public |
| Interests: | American History / Studies Intellectual History Local History |
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Bio: EDUCATION Ph.D. University of California, Santa Barbara, 1984. M.A. University of California, Los Angeles, 1976. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Department of History, Middle Tennessee State University, 1998-present; Director of Public History Program, 2005-present. Courses: Seminar in Public History, Administration of Historical Organizations, State and Local History, Cultural Resources Management, Professional Residency Colloquium, American Environmental History Academic Director, Teaching American History Projects, MTSU, 2004-present. Project Co-director, The Hermitage, Andrew Jackson, and America 1801-1861, NEH Landmarks of American History Workshop, 2004. Board of Directors, George Wright Society, 2004-2010. President, National Council on Public History, 2000-2001; Board of Directors, 1993-1996. Department of History, Wichita State University, Director of Public History, 1992-1998. Trustee, Old Cowtown Museum, Wichita, Kansas, 1995-1998. Board of Directors, Kansas State Museums Association, 1992-1994. Board of Directors, Iowa Historic Preservation Alliance, 1991-1993. Cofounder and partner, Tallgrass Historians L.C., Iowa City, 1993-2003. Cofounder PHR Associates, Santa Barbara, 1982-1992. MAJOR PUBLICATIONS Benjamin Shambaugh and the Intellectual Foundations of Public History. University of Iowa Press, 2002. Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve Legislative History, 1920-1996. National Park Service, Midwest Support Office, 1998. Places of Quiet Beauty: Parks, Preserves, and Environmentalism. University of Iowa Press, 1997. “John F. Lacey: Conservation’s Public Servant,” in The Antiquities Act and the Foundations of American Conservation, cosponsored by the National Park Service and the George Wright Society. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2006. “Spading Common Ground: Reconciling the Built and Natural Environments,” in Public History and the Environment, ed. Martin Melosi and Philip V. Scarpino. Krieger Press, 2004. Guest Editor, with Shelley Bookspan, Public History as Reflective Practice, a special issue of The Public Historian, v. 28, no. 2 (Winter 2006). |
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