Helping humanities professionals tap the power of the region's expansive cultural heritage to enrich community life, inspire visitors, and revitalize the economy.
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Sharon Ann Holt, Ph.D
Director of Programs, Mid-Atlantic Regional Center for the Humanities
3207 Winter Street * Philadelphia, PA * 19104
shan.holt@verizon.net
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| As a public historian, scholar, and teacher, Dr. Holt builds community awareness and civic vitality around searching understandings and bold presentations of American history. She consults with historical organizations on new initiatives, including strategic and financial management. As a practicing public historian, she works developing exhibits, publications, programs, and community-based collaborations, as well as teaching at Rutgers University-Camden and Philadephia's University of the Arts. She sits on the board of the McNeil Center of Early American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, and publishes in journals in public history, museum studies, and American history. |
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| Holt has been Director of Programs at MARCH since 2003. She holds a Ph.D in American history from the University of Pennsylvania. |
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| Holt is the author of Making Freedom Pay: North Carolina Freedpeople Working for Themselves, 1865-1900 (University of Georgia Press, 2000, 2003). She won the Greene-Ramsdell prize from the Southern History Association for her first published article in 1994, and has published in SIGNS, the Journal of Southern History, De Nieuwste tijd, The Public Historian, and on the web at Common-place. In the past year, she presented major papers in Chicago, IL, and at the University of Amsterdam (w/slides). |
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