Advisory Council
2014-2015 Members |
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Michael Fleming | Jen Gunderman | Doug Howard | Mark Allen Jackson | Kim Roberts Johnson |
Will Leggett | Bill Levine | Amy Macy | Joseph Morgan | Rachel Morris |
Martha Norkunas | Odessa Settles | Stephen Shearon | Louis Woods | |
Select one of the names above to see a brief bio for that council member. |
Martha Norkunas, Professor of History (MTSU)
Martha Norkunas holds a Ph.D. in Folklore from Indiana University’s Folklore Institute.
She is the author of The Politics of Public Memory: Tourism, History and Ethnicity in Monterey, California (SUNY Press, 1993) and Monuments and Memory: History and Representation in Lowell, Massachusetts (Smithsonian Institution Press, 2002/ Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2006). From
1999-2009 Norkunas directed the Project in Interpreting the Texas Past (ITP) at the
University of Texas at Austin where she taught interdisciplinary teams of graduate
students to think critically about memory, history, and culture and to apply their
knowledge to social and cultural issues, including creating more diverse and inclusive
interpretations at Texas historic sites. ITP produced award winning films, web sites,
exhibits, educational material, posters, brochures, oral history booklets, an in-depth
oral history project with African Americans in Texas, and an oral history project
exploring race and identity among college students. In August 2009 Norkunas became
Professor of Oral and Public History at Middle Tennessee State University in Mufreesboro,
Tennessee. She is developing an oral history concentration for Masters in Public History
students, and continues to direct the African American Oral History Project. Her current
research involves listening, racial memory, and the relationship between familial
memory and history.
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