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Dr. Anne E. Parsons

Contact Information

Email: aeparson@uncg.edu
Office: 2137 MHRA
Office Phone: 336-334-5645

Education

Ph.D., University of Illinois at Chicago, 2013
M.A., New York University, 2005
B.A., Smith College, 2000

Academic Positions

Director of Public History, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 2018-
Associate Professor, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 2019-
Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 2013-2019
Visiting Instructor, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2012-2013

Research Interests

Public History
Carceral Studies
Difficult Histories
History of Social Medicine
History of Gender and Sexuality
Modern U.S. History

Current Project

Project Director, Remembering Resistance: The 1942 Jewish Uprising in Tuchyn, Ukraine

Courses Taught

HIS 212: U.S. History Since 1865
HIS 346: Topics in Historical Memory: LGBTQ History and Public Memory (read UNCG News story)
HIS 626: The Practice of Public History
HIS 627: Museum and Historic Site Interpretation: Principles and Practice
HIS 631: Digital History
HIS 633: Community History Practicum
HIS 720/721: Capstone Projects

Selected Publications

From Asylum to Prison: Deinstitutionization and the Rise of Mass Incarceration after 1945 (University of North Carolina Press, 2018). Co-Winner, 2019 Outstanding Book Award, Disability History Association.
"From Asylum to Prison: The Story of Lincoln, Illinois," Journal of Illinois History 15 (Winter 2011 [2012]).
"When the Erotic Becomes Illicit: Struggles over Displaying Queer History at a Mainstream Museum," co-authored with Jill Austin, Jennifer Brier, and Jessica Herczeg-Konecny, Radical History Review 113 (Spring 2012).
"Gender Crossroads: Representations of Gender Transgressions in Chicago's Press, 1850-1920," co-authored with Jennifer Brier, Out in Chicago: LGBT History at the Crossroads, edited by Jill Austin and Jennifer Brier (Chicago: Chicago Historical Society, 2011).
Other publications listed on Vitae.

Selected Awards and Honors

Co-Winner, Outstanding Book Award, Disability History Association, 2019
Grassroots Grant, North Carolina Humanities Council, 2018
Soros Justice Media Fellowship, Open Society Foundation, 2015
Mini-Grant, North Carolina Humanities Council, 2014
Wood Institute Travel Grant, College of Physicians of Philadelphia, PA, 2011
Other awards listed on Vitae.

Public History

Curator, Care and Custody: A History of Mental Health. A traveling exhibit sponsored by the National Library of Medicine.
Project Director, "Pride and Pain," an exhibit and programming of Greensboro's polio hospital.
Partner, "States of Incarceration: A National Dialogue of Local Histories," Humanities Action Lab, New York, NY, 2015-2016.
Host Committee Member, "Bills of Sale: Slave Deeds of Guilford County," International Civil Rights Center and Museum, Greensboro, NC, 2015.
Project Director, "Pieces of the Past: The Art of Gwendolyn Magee," an exhibition on quilts depicting African American history and culture, High Point Museum, High Point, NC, 2014.
Researcher, "Out in Chicago," an exhibition on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender History, Chicago History Museum, Chicago, IL, May 2011-2012.
Other projects listed on Vitae.