An Indomitable Legacy | Grant Proposal and Strategic Plan
I cooperated with the director of Bradley Academy Museum and Cultural Center, a local African American institution in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, to create a grant proposal and strategic plan for the public history organization.
Coalmont Library Heritage Development Report
Coal Mining, Banking, and Community | Coalmont Library Heritage Development Report
I collaborated with several other graduate students in MTSU's Public History program to create a heritage development report for the Coalmont Library Building, a proud landmark for a mid-twentieth coal mining town.
Hidden Town in 3D Maymester
Project
Hidden Town in 3D | Maymester Project
I participated in a digital history Maymester course at Old Salem Museum and Gardens, in Winston–Salem, North Carolina, with seven other Public History doctoral students, as well as the professor. I overcame various challenges in my historical research while presenting hard truths about African slavery within an eighteenth century, living history Moravian community during a Hidden Town in 3D project.
The top photo shows a bronze panel commemorating the lives of one hundred thirty one enslaved African Moravians.
The photo on the left is the original brick structure of St. Philips Moravian Church, which enslaved African Moravians established in the late 1820s.
The photo on the right depicts the stone foundation of an extant dwelling where Christian David, an enslaved African Moravian, lived.
My colleagues and I created a PowerPoint lecture to share our research with the general public at a Lunch
and Learn session. Despite numerous hindrances with the photogrammetry software, lack of primary sources from enslaved Africans’ perspectives, and the Home Moravian Church’s reception to us, the Lunch and Learn session was a success and the audience seemed receptive to the truth due to our creative presentation, which can be viewed here.