Student Projects

Graduate student project featured on CBS Austin
Undergraduate students present their research on the Hayden Springs Freedom Colony Project
Flyer for an event on my student project with the family organizers of the Fredericksburg Family Cemetery Project
Graduate students help organize the non-lending library at the Calaboose African American History Museum
Graduate students research the Dodson family for a new Reconstruction Era interpretive site
Graduate students consult on exhibit design for Pioneer Farms, an outdoor museum in Austin

PUBLIC HISTORY COURSES OFFERED AT TXST

(undergraduate) HIST 3368A: Introduction to Public History
(graduate) HIST 5376: Local and Community History
(graduate) HIST 5372: Museums and Material Culture
(graduate) HIST 5374: Public History Internship

UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT PROJECT HIGHLIGHTS

Undergraduate public history students (HIST 3368A) researched an undocumented Freedom Colony near Manor, TX as part of a grant-funded project for the Travis County Historical Commission. 

Undergraduate public history students (HIST 3366) researched a segregated cemetery in Fredericksburg, TX in support of a family’s ongoing efforts to highlight African American history in the German tourist town. 

GRADUATE STUDENT PROJECT HIGHLIGHTS

Graduate students Amber Leigh Hullum and Railey Tassin successfully nominated the Manhattan Club, Austin’s first documented gay bar, for an official Texas state History Marker. The Manhattan Club is the first historic site commemorating LGBTQ+ history to receive a state-funded marker as part of the Texas Historical Commission’s Undertold Marker Program. Their research was featured on CBS Austin.

Graduate students Amber Leigh Hullum and Wesley Moore researched the Dodson family, whose former home will become a new Reconstruction-Era interpretive site.

Graduate students Patrick Bassett and Nicole Sutton prepare a successful historical marker application for the Lydia Street Fire Station, which employed the first Black civil servants in Texas, approved by the Travis County Historical Commission.