Congratulations, Cody! Everyone at the CAHC is proud of you and can’t wait to see you flourish in your professional career!

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This semester, Acadia Roher transitioned into a Graduate Assistantship at the 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock Center for Arkansas History and Culture. She previously worked with us as an archival assistant on the Mapping Renewal project funded by the NEH. Her role with the project has continued, but instead of long days of digitizing photographs Acadia is now developing spreadsheets full of metadata for each of the digital files that will end up on the interactive map. She also composes blog posts that highlight the digitized maps, photographs, reports, and architectural plans. She hopes to draw scholars’ attention to major themes and possible research topics that can be explored using the future Mapping Renewal platform.

Acadia came to public history via a winding path that has included environmental studies and sustainability, community organizing, urban farming, nonprofit capacity building, genealogy, and popular education. The Mapping Renewal project taps into many of her overlapping interests, allowing her to delve into the history of the ways power has played out on the landscape and the people of Little Rock.

Acadia grew up in Little Rock and New Orleans, Louisiana and has degrees from Barnard College and the Clinton School of Public Service.

Her current community work includes public school advocacy, network building among Southern grassroots organizations, documentation of local women’s history through the Arkansas People’s History Project, and support for a variety of social justice efforts.

Outside of school, work, and organizing, you can usually find Acadia helping out at community gardens in the 12th Street area, swimming in a creek, or journalling while snuggling with her cats Julius and Olive.

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The Center for Arkansas History and Culture (CAHC) and the 糖心Vlog传媒LR Department of History have collaborated for years through the Graduate Assistantship program, which provides current graduate students in the Public History program the opportunity to gain real-world experience working in an archive. The CAHC aims to support the education of the Graduate Assistants (GAs) through structured learning opportunities that, in turn, allow the GA to produce a body of work to include in their portfolio and resum猫.

The GA program has been highly successful at the CAHC and our most recent GA to graduate, Crystal Shurley, exemplifies this fact. Having just graduated in December 2018, her thesis work on the Arkansas Colored Auxiliary Council is already being recognized. To learn more about her work and the Arkansas Colored Auxiliary Council, check out this article by Angelita Faller at 糖心Vlog传媒LR News: 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock Researcher Uncovers History of Black Activism During World War I

Congratulations, Crystal!

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