We have great students doing history in public! Come join us for intellectual challenges in a collegial atmosphere. Our current students, alumni, and their presentations are listed below.
Current Students
Wil Carter Educational Background: SFASU, 2016, BA in History
Mr. Carter joined the program in Fall 2018 and has helped various professors in the department in a variety of ways from the ETRC to the classroom. That same semester he helped set up an exhibit in honor of Cason-Monk. Wil is now working on his thesis about federal troops in Nacogdoches and the Old University Building under the direction of Dr. Paul J. P. Sandul.
Christopher Cioffi Educational Background: SFASU, 2020, BA in History Research/Areas of Interest: Weapons and small arms
Mr. Cioffi has begun his graduate career in Fall 2021 working as a graduate assistant in the History Dept.
Chris Cotton Educational Background: Texas A&M University, 2014, BA in History Research/Areas of Interest: Post '50s American cultural history, history of Rock 'N Roll, American Civil War
Mr. Cotton is currently working as a GA at the East Texas Research Center processing the very large and significant W.T. Carter & Brothers Lumber Company Collection. In Fall 2015 he was a GA with Dr. Chay Runnels on a heritage tourism resources survey in Pine Ridge, SD. From Fall 2016-Spring 2017 Chris has worked in the East Texas Research Center on a grant-funded project to process the W. T. Carter Lumber Company records. After a year-long sabbatical Chris is back at the ETRC now employed full-time as an archives associate.
Alysha Richardson Research/Areas of Interest: Interpretation & Education, Historic Sites, Tourism
Mrs. Richardson joined the program in Fall 2019 while working part-time for the Texas Historical Commission as an educator at the Confederate Reunion Grounds State Historic Site in Mexia, Texas. She did a practicum in Summer 2020 with Preservation Texas creating interpretive panels for several historic cemeteries in Limestone County and completing Historic Texas Cemetery designations (later approved!). In Fall 2020 Alysha accepted a position as the site director of the Sam Bell Maxey House in Paris, Texas. During all of that she continues to work on her capstone thesis project, an interpretive manual and plan for CRG SHS under the direction of Dr. Perky Beisel.
Emily Smith Educational Background: Lamar University, May 2018, BA in History Research/Areas of Interest: Oral History and Folklore
Ms. Smith has begun her studies at SFA with a bang! In Fall 2018 as a graduate assistant she worked on preparing a national register nomination for the Stone Fort Museum along with Mary Tucker. In Spring 2019 she aided the Oak Grove Cemetery Ramblings Project (a series of 40 recordings about local history) - editing and selecting materials for a book project about the cemetery. In Fall 2019 she helped curate the late Dr. E. Deanne Malpass's teaching collection of slides as well as helping create a 5th-9th grade activity book for the Nacogdoches Historic Landmark Preservation Commission. As of Fall 2021 she is working on completing her oral history and labor based capstone thesis and in September 2021 she accepted a position as the director of the Jasper County Historical Museum.
Kollynn Tucker Educational Background: SFASU, 2021, BA in History Research/Areas of Interest: US, European, and Public History, especially Oral History
I love early U.S history such as the Colonial, Revolutionary, and Early Republic time periods, as well as WWII, Nazi Germany, and the Holocaust. I am drawn to oral histories - the details you learn about ordinary people's lives and their personal contribution to history is fascinating. I also hope to learn more about museum interpretation and exhibits, as well as collections management and archives. As a new Graduate Assistant in Fall 2021, Kollynn has begun processing archival collections at the East Texas Research Center.
Alumni
Natalie Bach-Prather Educational Background: SFASU, May 2013, MA in History with an emphasis in Public History; East Texas Baptist University, BA in History, BA in English, Minor in Piano Performance Research/Areas of Interest: local history, history of the west, Texas history, and nutrition
Ms. Bach-Prather completed her capstone thesis project, Harrison County Historical Resources Survey which included a digital component, an architectural resources survey, under the direction of Dr. Perky Beisel and the committee, Dr. M. Scott Sosebee, Dr. Paul J. P. Sandul and Dr. Chay Runnels. She is the head coach of the women's and men's cross country coach teams at East Texas Baptist University. Both teams have had notable success under her leadership since she began in 2010 and 2012 respectively.
Lisa Bentley Educational Background: SFASU, 2011, MA in History with an Emphasis in Public History; SFASU, 2000, BS & BA biology, history, art, and minor in education Research/Areas of Interest: Texas history, bootlegging, prohibition, moonshine, popular culture, memory Office: Dugas Liberal Arts 346 Phone: 936.468.2084
Ms. Bentley completed her thesis in May 2011, Shine On: Moonshine in the Memory of Texans under the direction of Dr. Paul Sandul and the rest of the committee, Dr. Perky Beisel and Dr. M. Scott Sosebee. Since Fall 2012 she has worked as an adjunct for the History Department at SFASU.
Jennifer Brancato Educational Background: SFASU, 2008, MA in History with an Emphasis in Public History Research/Areas of Interest: Archives, Material Culture, Texas History
Ms. Brancato completed her thesis in August 2008, A Glimpse of Life in Nineteenth-Century East Texas: Material Cultue and the Durst-Taylor House under the direction of Dr. Perky Beisel and the rest of the committee, Dr. Mark Barringer, Dr. M. Scott Sosebee, and Dr. Karol Chandler-Ezell. After working at the East Texas Research Center for several years, Ms. Brancato is now the University Archivist and Special Collections Coordinator at the University of Dayton in Ohio. She passed the SAA's Certified Archivist Examination in August 2014 on her first try! Since then Jennifer has returned home to Texas to work as Senior Archivist in the Genealogy, Local History, and Archives Unit of Dallas-Fort Worth public library. Read more at https://www.jbrancato.com/.
Amanda Carr Herterich Educational Background: SFASU, 2016, MA in History; University of Texas-Austin, 2010, BA in Art History Research/Areas of Interest: Antebellum slavery, Liberian colonization, race and culture, art and material culture Office: Dugas LA 347
Ms. Carr began working at Mission Delores, a Texas Historical Commission site, in October 2017 after having taught as an adjunct in the the History Dept. during Spring 2017. In December 2016 Amanda completed a traditional thesis, Defying Convention: Atypical Perspectives of Slavery in Antebellum New Orleans, under the direction of Dr. Barringer. In 2014-2015 as graduate assistant in the History Department she greatly advanced the processing of the Millard's Crossing Historic Village, Inc. archives. She entered the materials of approximately 30 boxes into the Village's PastPerfect database. After a sojourn in Bloomington, IN Amanda and her family are back in Texas where she keeps her hand in history related projects.
Mary Alice Cook Educational Background: SFASU, May 2011, MA in History with an emphasis in Public History; University of Alaska Anchorage, 1982, BA political science Research/Areas of Interest: oral history and museum curation, American West (especially Alaska), Native American history, and cultural studies (especially religious culture)
Ms. Cook's thesis was titled Patients and Profits: East Texas Lumber Company Doctors, 1890-1930 and was completed in May 2011 under the direction of Dr. Perky Beisel with her committe of Dr. M. Scott Sosebee, Dr. Allan Richman, and Dr. Gary Kronrad. After briefly serving as the the Director of the Texas Forestry Museum in Lufkin, Texas in early 2013, she returned to Alaska where she continues to pursue her historic interests.
Stephen Delear Educational Background: SFASU, 2011, MA in History; Texas State University - San Marcos, BA in History Research/Areas of Interest: Race, 20th Century US, Oral History
Mr. Delear defended his thesis, March! The Fight for Civil Rights in a Land of Fear: Nacogdoches, Texas 1929-1975 on August 8, 2011 before his committee: Dr. Paul Sandul, Dr. M. Scott Sosebee, Dr. Mark Barringer, and Dr. Diane Dentice. He later enrolled in the Texas A&M History Department's Ph.D. program and to continue the same topic for his dissertation.
Shelby Winthrop DeWitt Educational Background: SFASU, 2020, MA in History with an Emphasis in Public History; SFASU, 2014, BA in History Research/Areas of Interest: British history, museums, Texas history
In July 2017 Shelby completed an internship at the William J. Clinton National Archives in Little Rock, AR. From Fall 2016 through Summer 2017, Mrs. DeWitt worked in the ETRC processing the W. T. Carter Lumber Company collection, a very large corporate archive. In Spring 2016 Shelby began working for the City of Nacogdoches Historic Sites Department she continued simultaneously with other positions through Spring 2017. After a year in Arkansas, Shelby returned to Nacogdoches and SFASU where she works full-time in Student Affairs. She successfully defended her thesis capstone project - a digital exhibition - Brewing History: How Local Option and Prohibition Altered the Texas Brewing Industry in summer 2020.
Kendall Gay Educational Background: SFASU, August 2017, MA in History with an Emphasis in Public History;Texas A&M University, 2012, BA in History Research/Areas of Interest: Popular culture, museums, interpretation, collections management
Ms. Gay is the director of the Texas Forestry Museum in Lufkin, Texas. She completed her thesis capstone with Dr. Beisel, Dr. Paul Sandul, Dr. Scott Sosebee, and Dr. Pat Stephens-Williams to design a new interpretive plan for the main exhibit hall at the Texas Forestry Museum, a project Gay began before becoming the director. The project is available through SFASU's ScholarWorks.
Allison Grimes Educational Background: SFASU, 2018, MA in History with an Emphasis in Public History; SFASU, 2015, BA in History Research/Areas of Interest: Rural history, Cold War, popular culture, and Latin America
In Fall 2016 Ms. Grimes began work as a graduate assistant in the History Department. She researched the history of Oak Grove Cemetery and helping professors. In Spring 2016 had assisted Dr. Jackson with SFA's 100th Anniversary research. Allison completed her capstone thesis project, the archival processing of the Martinsville Baptist Church records and a written narrative to place the church's history within the larger social and cultural context of twentieth-century East Texas and American religious history. The project, Remembering the Church in the Wildwood: The Archival Processing and Digitization of the Martinsville Baptist Church Collection, is available through SFASU's ScholarWorks database. Alli currently works as a full-time archivist at the Diboll History Center.
Hayley Hasik Educational Background: SFASU, 2017, MA in History with an Emphasis in Public History; Texas A&M University - Commerce, May 2014, BS in History Research/Areas of Interest: War and memory, oral history, 20th century U.S., film and history
Hayley presented at numerous conferences including the East Texas Historical Association, Texas Oral History Association, Texas State Historical Association, Texas Library Association, Society of Southwest Archivists, the Southwest Popular Culture and National Popular Culture Conferences. Hayley served as the Program Chair for the Texas Oral History Association Annual Conference in 2015 and was elected to the Board of Directors for 2015-2017.
Hayley worked as a GA in the ETRC processing archival collections as well as conducting oral history interviews with former SFASU faculty and alumni. She has previously worked as a GA in the History Department processing small archival collections for the Heritage Center of Cherokee County and Millard's Crossing Historic Village, Inc.
She completed her capstone thesis project, "I'd Rather be Forgotten than Dishonored": An Oral and Life History Project with a Vietnam Veteran, under the direction of Dr. Paul J. P. Sandul and committee members Dr. Court Carney, Dr. M. Scott Sosebee, Dr. Phil Catton, and Dr. Dianne Dentice. Hayley entered the Ph.D. program at Southern Mississippi University in Fall 2017.
Conor Herterich Educational Background: SFASU, 2016, MA in History; SFASU, 2011, BA in History and Secondary Education Research/Areas of Interest: Public History, interpretation and preservation
In Spring 2016 Mr. Herterich became a GA in the History Department and worked on two historic preservation projects: updating the Cox Street area of the Nacogdoches Historic Sites Survey and conducting survey work in downtown Lufkin which he added to the Angelina County Historic Resources Survey. His work is available at http://crhr-hrs.org/. In Fall 2016 Conor joined the Center for Regional Heritage Research as a graduate assistant. During the summer Conor docented an exhibit at the E. J. Campbell Museum and helped do city survey work and completed cemetery cleaning at Oak Grove. In the 2017-2018 school year Conor taught world history and economics at Corrigan High School while researching and writing his thesis. During Summer 2017 Mr. Herterich spent two months in Alaska taking part in historic preservation work as a member of HistoriCorps! (Here is a link to the Ketchikan Daily News article, 7/1/17 about the project.) In June 2018 he defended his thesis Design Guidelines: A Practical Guide to Preserving the Historic, Cultural, and Architectural Heritage of Gladewater, Texas. In September 2018 Conor accepted a position with the Housing and Neighborhood Development Department of the City of Bloomington working as a historic preservation officer where he worked until late summer 2021 when he joined Stone Point Services, LLS in Tyler, Texas as an architectural historian.
Misty Hurley Educational Background: SFASU, 2013, MA in History with an Emphasis in Public History; Sam Houston State University, 2007, BA in History Research/Areas of Interest: The creation of educational programs for museums and historic sites, Colonial History, World War II era in Europe and the United States
Ms. Hurley completed her capstone thesis project - Bringing New Life to an Old Cemetery: The Preservation of Oak Grove Cemetery for Heritage Tourism Interpretation in Nacogdoches, Texas - under the direction of Dr. Perky Beisel and her committee, Dr. Paul J.P. Sandul and Dr. M. Scott Sosebee. She worked for the Department of Defense (2013-2014) in Germany giving tours of historic sites to military personnel and their families. Hurley has worked for several years at The Alamo and is now the organization's social media coordinator.
Jacob Lee Educational Background: SFASU, 2021, MA in History with and Emphasis in Public History
Mr. Lee joined the program in Spring 2019 and immediately began working as a graduate assistant for the Stone Fort Museum researching and developing a future exhibition: Crime and Punishment! In Fall 2019 he has continued with the Stone Fort Museum and is processed a late-19th century-early-20th century carpenter's trunk accessioned by the Stone Fort in August 2019. Under the direction of Dr. Sandul, Jacob wrote and successfully defended his public history thesis capstone project Early Photography in East Texas: An Exhibition [for the Stone Fort Museum] in August 2021.
Jake McAdams Educational Background: SFASU, 2013, M.A. in History with an Emphasis in Public History; SFASU, 2012, B.A. in History Research/Areas of Interest: oral history, memory, religion
Mr. McAdams completed his capstone thesis project, Can I get a Yee-haw and an Amen: Collecting and Interpreting Oral Histories of Texas Cowboy Churches, which included the conducting of thirteen interviews under the direction of Dr. Paul J. P. Sandul. Drs. David Rex-Galindo and Dr. M. Scott Sosebee also served on his committee. The department nominated his thesis for the overall thesis award. Mr. McAdams has now worked as a regional project manager for Public Management since 2014.
Jared McNeeley Educational Background: SFASU, 2020, MA in History with an Emphasis in Public History; SFASU, 2011, BA in History Research/Areas of Interest: Archives, Post-World War II Germany, Modern East Asia, Popular Culture Office:
In the Fall 2013 Collections Management course Mr. McNeeley and two other students wrote a $5,000 grant on behalf of Millard's Crossing which was subsequently funded by the Texas Historical Foundation. Since then he has been working at the East Texas Research Center as a graduate assistant. In January 2018 Jared began working full-time in the Nacogdoches High School as a floating substitute. With the 2019-2020 school year he became a full-time regular teacher (including AP history). In summer 2020 (despite COVID and life) he successfully defended a history and structural analysis of the Dawn of Light Lodge #79 in Lufkin, Texas founded by the Texas Prince Hall Masons and the archival processing of the Rev. Bettie Kennedy Collection in the ETRC.
Joyce Pitts Educational Background: SFASU, 2016, MA in History with an Emphasis in Public History; SFASU, 2010, BA in History Research/Areas of Interest: How gender roles are formed in societies, what purpose did they serve for the cultures that created them, and how gender roles have affected society, and how they have changed throughout history. Material culture during especially WWI and WWII. Office: East Texas Research Center, Steen Library
Ms. Pitts completed her capstone thesis project, Pickering Lumber Company: Archival Processing Project, under the direction of Dr. M. Scott Sosebee with Dr. Perky Beisel, Dr. Court Carney, and Linda Reynolds also serving on the committee. This project involved the processing of this collection and placing this early twentieth-century Texas timber company in its historic context. She worked for several years as a full-time employee of the East Texas Research Center, Steen Library. In June 2019 she moved north, way north, to North Dakota where she accepted a job with the North Dakota State Archives!
Amanda Saylor Educational Background: Stephen F. Austin State University, 2017, B.A. in History Research/Areas of Interest: Memory, Oral History, Social History, Archives, Museums, and Local History Office: East Texas Research Center, Steen Library
Mrs. Saylor began in the program in Fall 2017. She worked as a graduate assistant in the East Texas Research Center where she processed the East Texas Historical Association's archival collection. In Fall 2017 she and Laura Turner developed and opened a 75th Anniversary Exhibit for a local manufacturing firm, NIBCO. In Fall 2018 Amanda and fellow students created the Cason Monk-Metcalf 125th Anniversary Exhibit. She successfully defended her capstone thesis project on an oral history of race relations in Vidor, Texas and graduated in 2019: Reputation versus Reality: An Oral History of Vidor, Texas. She is now working part-time at the Texas Forestry Museum and adjuncting part-time at Tyler Junior College in Tyler, Texas.
Cody Stanley Educational Background: SFASU, 2016, MA in History with an Emphasis in Public History; SFASU, 2010, BA in History Research/Areas of Interest: Museums, Texas History, Political History, 20th Century History
Mr. Stanley completed his public history capstone thesis project, Albert Thomas: Space in the Bayou, about U.S. Representative Albert L. Thomas (8th Texas District) and his role in the expansion of Houston through the establishment of NASA's Manned Spacecraft Center in that city. As part of the project Mr. Stanley created four individualized exhibits for Rice University, NASA, Millard's Crossing Historic Village, Inc., and The University of Houston-Clear Lake, all repositories of Representative Thomas's archival materials spanning his long career from 1936 until his death in 1966. The thesis director was Dr. Perky Beisel and Dr. M. Scott Sosebee, Dr. Paul J. P. Sandul, and Linda Reynolds were also on the committee. Click here to see a selection of interpretive panels (all in pdf format) from his exhibit - Congressman Albert Thomas and Space in the Bayou: Panel 9, Panel 21, Panel 22, Panel 35, Panel 81, and Panel 82.
Kurt Austin Terry Educational Background: SFASU, 2017, MA in History with an Emphasis in Public History; Baylor University, 2014, BA in History Research/Areas of Interest: 19th and 20th century U.S., local history & memory
A "talking head" in the May 11, 2016 broadcast of Waco's Unfinished Legacy: Part 2 - The Waco Horror about the Waco lynching of Jessie Washington on May 15, 1916.
Mr. Terry spent Summer 2016 supervising the USDA Forest Service, National Forests and Grasslands in Texas Oral History project. These interviews were conducted by USFS personnel in the 1990s and 2000s with former CCC workers and people connected with the Ratcliff Lake Recreation Area in Davy Crockett National Forest and the Aldridge Sawmill Historic Site in Angelina National Forest. Previously Kurt worked as a GA in the History Department for the 2015-2016 semester transcribing oral histories, processing archival materials, and completing a historic resources survey for the Voice from Small Places project.
In May 2017 Mr. Terry completed his oral history based capstone thesis project Forgetting the Lynching of Jesse Washington: Manifestations of Memory and the "Waco Horror" under the direction of Dr. Paul J. P. Sandul and the committee members: Dr. Court Carney, Dr. Mark Barringer, and Dr. Stephen Sloan (of Baylor University). Kurt began his Ph.D. program at Oklahoma State University in Fall 2017.
Mary Tucker Educational Background: SFASU, 2021, MA in History with an Emphasis in Public History; SFASU, 2016, BA in History Research/Areas of Interest: Cemeteries, Oral History, Archives, the Victorian Era, and Food History
Mary Tucker began her studies at SFASU by working as a graduate assistant in the History Department of SFASU. In Fall 2018 she partnered with Emily Smith to prepare a national register nomination for the Stone Fort Museum. In Spring 2019 she worked on organizing preservation and conservation work at Oak Grove Cemetery - both SFASU students and hired specialists - 22 gravestones fully restored! In Fall 2019 Mary began full-time GA duties at the East Texas Research center processing the archives map collection. Mrs. Tucker successfully defended her thesis, Gravegoods: A Primer for Preservation, in August 2021. She immediately began teaching at Christ Episcopal School in Nacogdoches for the 2021-2022 school year.
Laura Turner Educational Background: SFASU, 2021, MA in History with an Emphasis in Public History Research/Areas of Interest: Archives, Museums, Leprosy
Ms. Turner completed her MA in Public history while working fulltime for SFASU as a budget analyst in University Affairs. She successfully defended her capstone public history project: creating a digital exhibition about leprosy for (and in cooperation with) the National Hansen's Disease Museum in Carville, LA in May 2021. Her final project titled Stories from Both Sides of the Hedge: A History of and Digital Exhibit for the National Hansen's Disease Museum was completed in wonderful style despite COVID-19.
Kaitlin Wieseman Educational Background: SFASU, August 2011, MA in History with an Empahsis in Public History; SFASU, 2009, BA Theater and History Research/Areas of Interest: women's history, Irish history, colonial American history
Ms. Wieseman successfully defended her capstone thesis project, The Forgotten Irish: The Important of the Irish Immigrant s in theTexas Revolution and a Lack of a Public Remembrance, under the direction of Dr. Perky Beisel and her committee Dr. Paul Sandul, Dr. M. Scott Sosebee, and Dr. Chay Runnels. As part of her thesis, Ms. Wieseman created a website utilizing Weebly - http://power-hewetsoncolony.weebly.com/index.html and an Omeka site for her primary sources - http://powerhewetsoncolony.omeka.net/. Ms. Wieseman worked as a research assistant and educator at the Stone Fort Museum on the campus of Stephen F. Austin State University for a year. She is now the education coordinator at the Texas Forestry Museum in Lufkin.
Presentations
East Texas Historical Assoc. Annual Meetings, Nacogdoches, TX (Fall) & various in TX (Spring)
ETHA Fall 2017 - Chris Cotton, Allison Grimes, and Laura Turner presented in a session titled: The National Register in Nacogdoches County. They gave overviews of their work on the Hotel Fredonia in Nacogdoches and the Fenci Residence/McIlwain General Store of Appleby. Dr. Beisel chaired the session which was based on work in her HIS581 Historic Preservation class of Fall 2016. The students were awarded the best student paper of the conference, held in Galveston.
ETHA Spring 2016 - Hayley Hasik, Kurt Terry, and Katie Hutto all participated in the conference held in Beaumont, Texas.
ETHA Spring 2013 - Chase A. Ables, John Aaron Grimes, John K. Keeling, Kristi R. Warren, Mark L. Musquiz Jr., Pamela A. Temple, and William Tracy Allen presented the findings of their oral history project conducted as part of HIS581 Seminar in Public History (Oral History) with Dr. Sandul in summer 2012. "Oral Histories of Black Life in East Texas: A Student Project," was very well received in Galveston!
ETHA Fall 2010 - Stephen DeLear, Laura Blackburn, Jessy Hanshaw, Matt Tallant, Aaron Marsh, and Lisa Bentley presented their oral interviews conducted on the behalf of the African American Heritage Project.
ETHA Fall 2009 - Chris Elzen, Lisa Bentley, Pam Ringle, Cassie Bennett, Joyce Preston, and Brenna Kelly presented papers at the fall meeting of the East Texas Historical Association in Nacogdoches. (See photographs below)
ETHA Fall 2008 - Sara Baker, Jennifer Brancato, and Chris Elzen presented papers at the fall meeting of the East Texas Historical Association in Nacogdoches. (See photographs below)
ETHA Fall 2007 - Paul Maleski, Angela Henderson, and Curtis Odom presented a summary of their Nacogdoches Historic Resources Survey project (Presentation PowerPoint).
TOHA Conference, 2016
On April 23, 2016 Hayley Hasik, Conor Herterich, Kurt Terry, and Chris Cotton conducted panel session on the use of oral history transcriptions in teaching at the graduate level as part of the Texas Oral History Association Annual Meeting at Baylor University in Waco, Texas. Here is the conference program. Dr. Beisel was the session chair and Dr. Sosebee and Dr. Sandul attended as well.
Both Dr. Beisel and Ms. Hasik serve as members of the 2015-2017 TOHA Board. They are shown here, far right and second from right respectively, at the 2016 TOHA Conference with other board members.
Graduate Research Conference, CLAA, SFASU
In Spring 2015 Erick Roy presented a poster on the life and work of Arthur Szyk. Amanda Carr presented a poster on the Millard's Crossing Historic Village, Inc. archival processing project from 2010-2015. (See photographs below)
2011 NCPH Meeting - Pensacola, FL
April 2011 On Wednesday the 6th of April four History MA students (Kaitlin Wieseman, Carolyn Whitsitt, Carolyn White, and Misty Hurley) and one History BA student (Cassandra Bennett who began the Public History MA program at Middle Tennessee State University in Fall 2011) joined Drs. Perky Beisel, Paul Sandul, and Scott Sosebee along with Mr. Herman Wright (LongBlackLine.org) on a twelve-hour road trip from Nacogdoches, TX to Pensacola, FL. Thanks to the generous support of the East Texas Historical Association, the History Department, and Student Affairs, we were able to make this an affordable and extremely educational trip. We all had fun at the conference, met great people, listened to stimulating sessions, toured the posters and the town (including a dip in the Gulf of Mexico), and presented our papers. Carolyn Whitsitt and Kaitlin Wiseman presented papers concerning their thesis research and Cassandra Bennett presented a poster. (See photographs below).
