On Wednesday January 25, students in Professor Cari Goetcheus's Cultural Resource Assessment class accompanied by Tom Jones took a trip to rural Putnam County to experience the landscapes and places associated with Alice Walker, Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Color Purple. The class's main project for the semester will be working towards a potential National Register nomination for this district [...]
MHP Alumnus Ethiel Garlington's efforts as executive director of the Historic Macon Foundation were recently recognized by the National Trust's for Historic Preservation's newsletter. The National Trust recognized that dramatic, organizational changes brought on by Garlington have helped to breathe new life into the mission of the Historic Macon Foundation. His efforts have helped to focus efforts on creating diverse and affordable [...]
Mary C. Scales English, a 2nd Year MHP student, received a graduate research grant from the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts during the Fall 2016 semester. The award was used to directly fund thesis research associated with traveling to and accessing archival data in Morrow, Georgia at the National and State archival facilities, and to alleviate expenses associated with [...]
Bricks and Bones: Exploring Atlanta's Spaces of Neo-Slavery Dr. Richard Becherer January 17th, 5pm Jackson Street Building, Room 123 Dr. Richard Becherer, architectural historian, will give a lecture on the use of African American convicts at the Chattahoochee River Brick Company in Atlanta, now an historic complex faced with pressures from development. The lecture will be of interest to anyone [...]
This past fall, University of Georgia College of Environment and Design professor James Reap was appointed by President Barack Obama as a new member of the Department of State's Cultural Property Advisory Committee. Reap is one of 15 new appointees selected to aid the White House in key administrative posts. The Cultural Property Advisory Committee, which was established in 1983, [...]
MHP Graduate Coordinator James Reap recently went to Tallinn, Estonia to participate an International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) conference. The conference's theme was Historical Perspective of Heritage Legislation: Balance Between Laws and Values and commemorated the 350th Anniversary of the 1666 Act by King Charles XI of Sweden which was one of the earliest heritage protection acts in Europe. The conference [...]
Many MHP students spent the week before Thanksgiving break in Houston at the National Trust for Historic Preservation's Past Forward Conference. The conference, as the name implies, was not only focused on the preservation of the past but also on the future of preservation. Many talks revolved around the question of "What does the next 50 years of Preservation look [...]
MHP Professor and Graduate Coordinator James Reap recently participated in and spoke at the 5th International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) - Wuhan Crossover Forum in Wuhan, China. The forum, whose theme was Time & Space: Cultural Heritage in Urban Renewal, was organized by the Huazhong University of Science & Technology and the Wuhan Research Society on Shared Built Heritage and [...]
On Sunday October 23, several MHP students traveled to Milledgeville, GA to tour and volunteer. The event, organized by the Student Preservation Organization, began with a tour of Andalusia, the home of author Flannery O'Connor in the 1930s-1950s. Student Ross Sheppard led the tour and explained the role of Andalusia in Flannery O'Connor's novels. He also spoke about the building itself [...]
Associate Professor Scott Nesbit discusses the work students are doing in his Public History and Technology classes, and the presentation he and teaching assistant/MHP student Audrey Thomas gave to the Athens Historical Society last week, in this article from the Athens Banner-Herald. You can also access the article here. For more about Professor Nesbit's work in the digital humanities, click [...]