University of North Carolina at Greensboro
public history
Engaging the with the past. Educating for the Future.
About Us
MA in History/Museum Studies and PhD in History/Public History
How do we make history matter to our communities? How can we build connections between past, present, and future? UNCG’s MA and PhD public history degrees place a premium on making history relevant and connecting contemporary audiences to the past. Students build a broad and practical skillset that they can apply in the public history workplace—museums, historic sites, public education, web-development, and beyond.
Come join us
Our Application Deadline is February 1st for Fall admission and our Graduate Program no longer requires GRE scores for applications.
Projects
2019-2020
UNCG History/Museum Studies students collaborated with the Historic Magnolia House to capture the site’s importance and powerful history. They researched, designed, and implemented an exhibition that details the history of this house. It covers the Green Book’s creation and dissemination throughout the country and the story of the Gist family who purchased and reimagined the home, making it into a prominent hotel for African Americans. The exhibit is on display at the Historic Magnolia House in Greensboro, North Carolina.
2018-2019
Students in the UNCG History/Museum Studies program worked to bring the traveling exhibit Patient No More: People with Disabilities Securing Civil Rights to the International Civil Rights Center and Museum. The students created a short exhibit on the occupation of physical spaces as a means of driving change. This multimedia station compared the occupation of government buildings by disability rights activists to the sit-ins in Greensboro, the occupation of a factory by labor workers, and the occupation of Alcatraz by the American Indian Movement (AIM) of Alcatraz as forms of protest.
2015-2016
Working with the New York-based Humanities Action Lab, students contributed to a nationally traveling exhibition on the history of mass incarceration, designing a section that showcased moving letters from 1920s chain-gang inmates in North Carolina. When the exhibition opened at the International Civil Rights Center and Museum in Greensboro. The project was a model of shared authority and community engagement.