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ABIGAIL R. GAUTREAU 802 EAST MAIN STREET, NO. 37
MURFREESBORO, TENNESSEE 37130 571.239.2882 [email protected]
THEPASTPRESENTLY.WORDPRESS.COM
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 Womans 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.
PROJECTS ________________________________________________________________________________________________
Current:
Southern Places Digital History Initiative: Selma Digitizing the Center for Historic Preservations 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)
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.
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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)
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS ________________________________________________________________________________________________
2016: National Council on Public History Annual Meeting Change Starts Within: Challenging Cultural & Structural Barriers to Inclusive Public History: a structured conversation with Julie Davis, Lara Kelland, and Craig Stutman.
2015: Give Us the Ballot: The Alabama Voting Rights Campaign of 1965 and the Transformation of Americas Political System. "Voting Rights in the Alabama Black Belt: Dallas and Lowndes Counties with Charles Mauldin, Sheyann Webb-Christburg, Catherine Flowers, and Joann Mants.
2014: National Council on Public History Annual Meeting 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 Working Group: Toward a History of Civic Engagement and the Progressive Impulse in Public History
2013: Oral History Association Annual Meeting 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 TLC and the American Working Class
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A Conference Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Desegregation of the University of North Alabama Selma Civil Rights Multiple Property Nomination Project
16th Annual US/ICOMOS International Symposium Whose City?: Race and the Urban Landscape in Selma, Alabama
National Council on Public History Annual Meeting 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
2012: Tennessee Regional Phi Alpha Theta Conference Creating a Research Culture for Students through Experiential Learning with Spurgeon King and Katie Randall
Southeast Conference of the Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting 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/
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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