Abigail R. Gautreau 802 East Main Street, No. 37

Murfreesboro, Tennessee 37130 571.239.2882 abby.gautreau@gmail.com

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Education ____________________________________________________________________________

Ph.D. Public History, Middle Tennessee State University, 2015 “The Past is Political: Race, Cultural Landscapes, and the Case for Community-Driven Heritage in Selma and South Africa”

M.St. History, University of Oxford, 2008

B.A. Randolph-Macon Woman’s College, 2006 History (honors), magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, minor in French Civilization

Work Experience ____________________________________________________________________________

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Southern Places Digital History Initiative July 2015-present Center for Historic Preservation, MTSU

Graduate Research Assistant, Center for Historic Preservation, MTSU Jan 2011-May 2015

Lead Investigator for the Selma Multiple Property Submission Feb-Dec 2013 Center for Historic Preservation, MTSU

Visitor Use Assistant, Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts 2007

Teaching Experience ____________________________________________________________________________

Adjunct Instructor of History, Middle Tennessee State University 2015 U.S. History to 1877

Adjunct Instructor of History, Motlow State Community College 2015 U.S. History to 1877

Adjunct Instructor of History, Lord Fairfax Community College 2010 Taught “World History 1500 to the Present” as both a traditional course and an online hybrid course. Three sections over two semesters.

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Substitute Teacher, Loudoun County Public Schools 2006-2007, 2008-2009 Held four long-term positions, two concurrently. Classes taught include World History (1500-present), AP World History Part II, English 9, English 9 Honors, and English 11. Team-taught as a special education teacher.

Conference Presentations ____________________________________________________________________________

“Give Us the Ballot”: The Alabama Voting Rights Campaign of 1965 and August 2015 the Transformation of America’s Political System. "Voting Rights in the Alabama Black Belt: Dallas and Lowndes Counties” with Charles Mauldin, Sheyann Webb-Christburg, Catherine Flowers, and Joann Mants.

National Council on Public History Annual Meeting March 2014 “Sustaining Historic Preservation Through Community Engagement”: a roundtable discussion with Kristen Baldwin Deathridge, Rachel Boyle, Ginna Foster Cannon, Kimberly Connolly Hicks, Theodore J. Karamanski, and Eileen MacMahon.

National Council on Public History Annual Meeting March 2014 Working Group: “Toward a History of Civic Engagement and the Progressive Impulse in Public History”

Oral History Association Annual Meeting October 2013 “Re-seeing Movement History in New Relationships, New Times, Old Landscapes: Hidden Stories in the Life History Context”

Popular Culture & American Culture Association in the South October 2013 “TLC and the American Working Class”

A Conference Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Desegregation of the September 2013 the University of North Alabama “Selma Civil Rights Multiple Property Nomination Project”

16th Annual US/ICOMOS International Symposium May 2013 “Whose City?: Race and the Urban Landscape in Selma, Alabama”

National Council on Public History Annual Meeting April 2013 “‘Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find’: Landmarking the Civil Rights Movement in Selma, Alabama” with Amber Clawson, Jessica French, and Louretta Wimberly

Tennessee Regional Phi Alpha Theta Conference March 2012 “Creating a Research Culture for Students through Experiential Learning” with Spurgeon King and Katie Randall

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Southeast Conference of the Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting January 2012 “The Invention of Lying: George Psalmanazar, the Society of Jesus, and the Truth about Asia in the Seventeenth Century”

Publications ____________________________________________________________________________

“Interview with Abigail Gautreau: PhD Candidate” for the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, Summer 2013. http://www.achp.gov/inclusiveness-abigail.html

“Finding the Segregated Past in a Civil Rights Landscape in Selma, Alabama”: Featured Landscape, The Living Landscape Observer, June 2013 http://livinglandscapeobserver.net/civil-rights-landscape/

Projects ____________________________________________________________________________

Current:

Southern Places Digital History Initiative: Selma Digitizing the Center for Historic Preservation’s extensive collection of material collected during fieldwork in Selma, Alabama, including photographs and historic documents, as part of the Southern Places Initiative, a partnership with Walker Library.

Voices of Selma, Alabama Oral History Project An oral history project dedicated to co-creating the narratives of those involved in the Voting Rights Movement in Selma, especially alumni of R.B. Hudson High School.

“R.B. Hudson High School, Selma, Alabama.” National Register of Historic Places Nomination Form. (with Carroll Van West)

“Gatlinburg Inn, Gatlingburg, Tennessee.” National Register of Historic Places Nomination Form (Susan Knowles, Heather Bailey Abigail Gautreau)

Completed:

2013: “The Civil Rights Movement in Selma, Alabama, 1865-1972.” National Register of Historic Places Multiple Property Submission Form. (Carroll Van West, Elizabeth Moore Humphreys, Amber Clawson, Jessica French, Abigail Gautreau)

“American Baptist Theological Seminary.” National Register of Historic Places District Nomination Form. (Carroll Van West, Elizabeth Moore Humphreys, Abigail Gautreau, Amber Clawson, Jessica French)

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“Oak Hill Farm, Tipton County, Tennessee.” National Register of Historic Places District Nomination Form. (Abigail Gautreau, Carroll Van West, Elizabeth Moore Humphreys)

2012: African American Oral History Project Completed a series of oral history interviews under the direction of Dr. Martha Norkunas, director of the AAOHP.

Cragfont Historic Structures Assessment Tennessee Historical Commission, Gallatin, Tennessee. (Carroll Van West, Elizabeth Moore Humphreys, Spurgeon King, Michael Gavin, Abigail Gautreau, Angela Sirna, Claire Ackerman, Leslie Couch, Dan Allen, David Sprouse, Julie Warwick)

2011: Glen Leven Interpretive Plan Tennessee Land Trust Society, Nashville, Tennessee. (Caneta S. Hankins, Abigail Gautreau, Kathryn Rosta)

Monteagle Sunday School Assembly Architectural Review (Carroll Van West, Elizabeth Moore Humphreys, Abigail Gautreau, Hallie Fieser, Sean Urrutia, Jessica Bandel, Amy Kostine, Jessica White, Leigh Ann Gardner)

Service and Recognition ____________________________________________________________________________

Board Member, Inter-museum Council of Nashville 2015-present MTSU Bart McCash Memorial Scholarship 2013, 2014 History Day, Regional Judge, Middle Tennessee 2011, 2012, 2014 History Day, State Judge, Tennessee 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015 MTSU Committee on Disability Services 2012-2013 MTSU Graduate Student Association, co-chair of Library Committee 2012-2013 PhD/Faculty Liaison, MTSU History Department 2012 MTSU Graduate History Faculty Committee, PhD Representative 2011-2012 Outstanding Customer Service Award, Wolf Trap National Park 2007 Lura Lee Cannon Stephens Prize awarded to an Outstanding Senior History Major 2006

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