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Sarah Craig

Tallapoosa,GA

Summary

A committed public historian passionate about social history, material culture and museum education. Seeking to tell the stories of the groups and communities whose stories often go untold. Demonstrates solid leadership and research skills. Highly adaptable when working in a group or alone. Experience in public speaking and Microsoft programs such as Word, PowerPoint, Access, Excel, and the Department of the Interiors ICMS database.

Overview

4
4
years of professional experience

Work History

Oral History Archivist

Center For Public History
01.2022 - 05.2022

● Digitize and Catalog Archival materials.
● Establish and maintains organizational system for archival materials.
● Write weekly reports to informs director of project progress
● Resolve problems when they arise.
● Lead quarterly progress meetings.

Graduate Curatorial Assistant

Antonio J. Waring Jr. Archeological Laboratory
02.2018 - 12.2021

Education outreach

  • Lead tour groups.
  • Memorize tour script.
  • Memorized and present project information to tour groups
  • Adapted tour script and activities to fit ages of visitors.
  • Setup felid trip activities for pre k-12th grade students.
  • Lead field trip activities for pre k-12th grade students.
  • Assisted in activity development for annual open house.
  • Set up activities for annual open house.
  • Set up and lead public outreach events.

Project Lead for the Ninety-Six National Historic Site Collection

● Revitalize artifacts to the National Park Services' current curatorial standards.

● Write weekly reports to inform the curator of the project's progress.

● Manage other students on the project.

● Resolve problems when they arise.

Environmental Assistant

● Monitor traps around the facility.

● Monitor and extract data from environmental devices.

● Record pest activity and environmental fluctuation in the Waring Environmental Database

  • Assisted in planning public programs related to exhibitions, fostering community engagement with museum's collections
  • Assisted in planning public programs related to exhibitions, fostering community engagement with museum's collections

Oral History Intern

Haralson County Veterans Association
05.2021 - 07.2021

● Develop questions for interviews.

● Conduct oral history interviews with Haralson County Veterans.

● Scheduled and managed appointments for interviews

● Create indexes for the interview conducted.

Curation Intern

Pettigrew-White- Stamps House
05.2018 - 07.2018

● Catalog collections present at Stamp House

● Create a database for Upson Historical Society

● Create reports for Upson Historical Society

Education

Master of Arts - History

University of West Georgia
Carrollton, GA
12.2023

Bachelor of Science - Mass Communication

University of West Georgia
Carrollton, GA
05.2020

Skills

  • Research performance
  • Program development,
  • Program evaluation
  • Excellent Communication
  • Differentiated Instruction
  • Quick learner
  • Public Speaking
  • Public Relations
  • Community Engagement
  • Curation and Interpretation
  • Highly Adaptable
  • Classroom Management
  • Microsoft Office
  • Google Suite

Affiliations

  • American Association for State and Local History
  • • Southeastern Museum Conference

Professional Training

• National Park Service collections management
• ICMS Database
• National Park Service Artifact tag creation
• General collections management
• Artifact handling  
• Large Artifact Curation
• Artifact Identification
• Direct labeling
• Microenvironment
• Environmental monitoring
• Bug identification
• HOBO environmental monitoring devices
• Shelving System  
• Photo digitization  
• Photo Curation
• Slide photo digitization
• Slide photo curation
• Tape Cassette Digitization
• Document Digitization
• Document curation
• Artifact intake  
• Education Outreach

Timeline

Oral History Archivist

Center For Public History
01.2022 - 05.2022

Oral History Intern

Haralson County Veterans Association
05.2021 - 07.2021

Curation Intern

Pettigrew-White- Stamps House
05.2018 - 07.2018

Graduate Curatorial Assistant

Antonio J. Waring Jr. Archeological Laboratory
02.2018 - 12.2021

Master of Arts - History

University of West Georgia

Bachelor of Science - Mass Communication

University of West Georgia
Sarah Craig