My graduate and undergraduate students have completed amazing public-facing and community-driven projects. Many of them are difficult to showcase online, from accessibility plans to grant applications. These are a few that are not.

Undergraduate Nizhoni Tallas documented the Indigenous landscapes documented by archaeologists now in the path of the Mountain Valley Pipeline project. Her work won her the American Society for Ethnohistory award (for graduate students) in 2021.

Graduate students Erica Blake, Savannah Flanagan, Elizabeth Bucklen, and Katie Gibson completed donation-funded projects documenting early Virginian colonists for the West Family summer internship.

Bethany Stewart continued a partnership with Calfee Community and Cultural Center she began in the graduate public history class and continued to interview and create online exhibits on behalf of the organization.

Erica Blake also completed two internships in one summer, helping the historian at the Rappahannock Indian Tribe with their virtual exhibits. [And her thesis on Indigenous sovereignty won a university-level Outstanding Thesis Award!]

You can read about other students’ experiences in the public history internship in their own words here.