Fall 2012

Faculty Spotlight
Dr. Marie-Thérèse Champagne

Dr. Marie-Thérèse Champagne is the department’s medieval historian. She earned her M.A. in Art History and her Ph.D. in Medieval History from Louisiana State University in 1999 and 2005, respectively. This past summer, Dr. Champagne earned tenure and promotion to Associate Professor. Read more about Dr. Champagne on her faculty web page.

Student Spotlight
Public History Student Jonathan Harwood Preserving History in Sacramento

Jonathan is originally from Los Angeles, CA, but has lived in the Pensacola area most of his life. He earned his B.A. in History from UWF in 2010, and graduates with his M.A. in Public History in spring 2013.

Jonathan is currently completing his practicum research for the Historic Preservation Office for the City of Sacramento, California who has employed him to ensure the preservation, rehabilitation, and awareness of historic and cultural resources. His responsibilities include researching and evaluating historic properties, city historical surveys, and cultural resources; writing nominations for the city of Sacramento, California, and National Register of Historic Places; preservation project review; and following the Secretary of the Interior's Standards for the Treatment of Historic Properties.

He returns to Pensacola in January to complete his practicum report and defend his project as a requirement for graduation.

UWF Students Interview Former GTMO Residents

As a partner in Columbia University's Guantanamo Public Memory Project program, UWF and WFPHI are working on a travelling exhibit that will open in New York City in December 2012 and visit Pensacola in the spring of 2014. As part of that exhibit, UWF Public History students have collected more than 200 oral histories from former Guantanamo Bay Naval Base residents. As self-funded participants on the Cuban Missile Crisis 50th Anniversary Reunion cruise from October 28 to November 2, 2012, the UWF team collected 74 oral histories for the project.

Next Exit History Promotes Heritage Tourism

Utilizing advances in mobile computing and GPS technology, Next Exit History (NEH) actively delivers information about historical sites to users through their smart phones, connecting them to the historical world around them. NEH empowers communities and organizations with the tools necessary to reach an increasingly mobile and technologically dependent public, bringing the art of historical interpretation into the twenty-first century. To date, UWF students and local high school students have created more than 500 sites in our database of over 55,000 sites, learning job skills such as critical thinking, clear and concise communication, and audio and video production.

Methods of Historic Preservation II, HIS5990-2526, Mr. Carter Quina, AIA, LEED AP
This course will continue to introduce students to the fundamentals of preservation technology and conservation standards, philosophy and ethics using Historic Pensacola Village and other historic structures as a laboratory for practice. Students will focus on historic neighborhoods and districts that may include multiple historic resources. The correlation of these tenants to the historic built environment will be magnified by Historic Hands-On Workshops at the Village and additional field trips.

For more information on any of the above courses, visit the Department of History Website.