Project Team

Dr. Ann McCleary In her role as Director of the Center for Public History, McCleary has overseen a variety of research projects focusing on the history and culture of the Georgia Piedmont. She directs an on-going oral history program of this region and is currently directing grants documenting both music and baking traditions.

Dr. McCleary also coordinates the Public History program and the Museum Studies Certificate program. She co-teaches the courses in Museum Studies at the Atlanta History Center, having worked for many years in the museum community in Virginia and as a museum consultant. Her current interests are in twentieth-century rural life; she is working on a book examining the impact of the home demonstration movement on rural women and housing in Virginia during the 1920s and 1930s

Phone: 678-839-6041
E-mail: amcclear@westga.edu
http://www.westga.edu/~history/center.htm

 

 

Ms. Arden Williams Arden started work at the Georgia Humanities Council in 2005. She is a program officer (focusing on the grant program), as well as the Georgia statewide coordinator for the Smithsonian Institute's traveling exhibit, "Key Ingredients".

She holds a B.A. in history and an M.A. in public history from the University of W. Georgia. She currently is working on her PHD in history at Georgia State University.

Previously Arden worked for the National Archives – SE Region, presenting educational programs within the community, working with genealogists and directing the student interns.

She enjoys working with students and has also been an adjunct professor at Clayton State University, teaching "Introduction to Public History".

Phone: 404-523-6220
E-mail: awilliams@georgiahumanities.org
http://www.georgiahumanities.org