Alum Chris Wilson to speak on public history

WSU History Career Diversity Series: Public History

Curating Curiosity from Sulkies to Sausage to Civil Rights: A Career in Public History

WSU History alum Christopher Wilson is the Director of the Experience and Program Design and the Program in African American History and Culture at the National Museum of American History. Chris created the Museum's award-winning historic theater programs, which offer interactive, personal presentations of stories of America's past that resonate in the nation's present. Before taking his current position at the Smithsonian, Wilson spent eighteen years at The Henry Ford in Dearborn. Most recently, Chris created the History Film Forum, a four-day exploration of history on the screen. A collaboration of the Smithsonian Institution and the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Forum brings together filmmakers, historians, audience members, and political leaders to examine the state of both narrative and documentary history film as vehicles for teaching and interpreting history.

Thursday, October 15, 3:00 p.m., Community Room of the WSU Undergraduate Library.
The talk is free and open to the public.

This presentation will be followed by the History Department's fall reception for faculty, alumni, and current students.

View the full roster of speakers for the 2015-16 Career Diversity Series.