Introducing New Graduate Assistants

 

Heather Greenemeier is pursuing a Master of Arts in Public History, and she is particularly interested in historic preservation and cultural resource management.  In May, Heather received her Bachelor of Arts in History with a minor in anthropology from Auburn University.  While at Auburn, Heather served as a World History Supplemental Instruction Leader, Golden Key Vice President, and member of the SGA Blood Drive Committee.  For the past four summers, she has also worked as a student aide for the Department of Defense in Huntsville, Alabama.

 

 

Heather Greenemeier

Kim O'Donnell

 

 

 Kim O'Donnell grew up in Central Illinois, but lived most of her life in Massachusetts.  In New England she worked as a hand bookbinder for more than twenty years.  Returning to school later in life, she attended Holyoke Community College, earning a degree in Geographic Information Systems.  As a Francis Perkins Scholar she earned her BA  from Mount Holyoke College, majoring in Anthropology with an Asian Studies minor.  After relocating to Paducah, Kentucky in 2003, to participate in an urban renewal project, she is now continuing with her graduate studies in Public History.

 
Donna Baldwin is a graduate assistant at the Rutherford County Archives.  She is in her first year of graduate study in the Public History program, with a concentration in historic preservation.  She earned her BA in History from Eureka College in Eureka, Illinois, a small liberal arts school.  While at Eureka, she completed an internship at the Bethnal Green Museum of Childhood in London, Great Britain's National Museum of Childhood and a member of the Victoria and Albert Museum Group.  Donna says she enjoys her work at the archives and looks forward to the experience of transferring, expanding, and reorganizing the collections when the archives moves into its new location in Summer 2006.

 

 

Donna Baldwin

 


Janine Hunter

 

 Janine Hunter is a Graduate Research Assistant assigned to the Rutherford County Archives for the Fall, 2005 semester. As a reentry student, she completed her undergraduate Bachelor of Science in Anthropology with minors in Archaeology and History in May, 2005. She was part of the archaeological excavation crew for the original First Presbyterian Church,
Murfreesboro, in the Summer of 2003. She studied with Betty Pat Gatliff at the Scottsdale Art Institute, this past summer, refining her skills in Forensic Facial Reconstruction. She has also been a high-risk Obstetrical Registered Nurse for the past twenty years working in several states throughout the West and South.
The daughter of dust-bowlers, her particular interest in American social history was sparked by having grown up in a space out of place--the Nashville of the West and definitely south of the Mason-Dixon in all but location--Bakersfield, California.

Janine was accepted to the Master of Arts public history program this Fall and will specialize in museum studies.

 

Sarah Elizabeth Hickman grew up in the Mule Capital of the World, Columbia, Tennessee.  Currently she is a graduate student in the Public History department with emphasis in Historic Preservation.  She is also the graduate coordinator of Narrating Hurricane Katrina through oral history project sponsored by MTSU and the Gore Center.

 

Sarah Elizabeth Hickman
Sara Elizabeth attended MTSU for her undergraduate work and received her B.S. in Mass Communications and Public Relations with minors in history and marketing in May 2005.  This past summer she completed an internship with the Land Trust for Tennessee in Nashville.  Sarah Elizabeth's historical interests are the American Civil War, WWII, Women's History, 19th Century Architecture, and Tennessee History.  Her other interest outside school is her Tennessee Walking Horses.  Also, she is a swimmer, certified Advanced Open Water SCUBA Diver, and hunter.

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