The Van Hoy Interlude

Photo of Dr. Teresa Van Hoy visiting the St. Mary’s University Public History program!

Having Dr. Van Hoy visit today was a great way to re-awaken an interest in history that has been dormant for a few years. She brought in a great perspective to the class by sharing some great stories and personal testimony about her time as a historian. Dr. Van Hoy helped bring together the history that we are making now with the history from the past. Danielle, a fellow student in the course, was a main source of interest for this visit.

Danielle Garza featured in the “Faces and Voices of History” article

Dr. Van Hoy spoke to us about her previous experience with the history department and how she was able to include her experiences from her history as a student to her future experiences as a future public historian. We ended our visit with Dr. Van Hoy by taking some shots that we can later include on our curriculum vitae and LinkedIn profile. Hopefully we can continue to bring these shared experiences into the classroom. I know they can definitely share some insight and theory to the history that we will be contributing to in regards to this program.

I’ve included some photos with this post. I plan on using my art of photography within this field as we progress into other areas of history. I think that using the areas of “expertise” in your favor is extremely important. “You will all bring something different table in this program,” Dr. Van Hoy stated, and I completely agree with this. Dr. Wieck has made it clear that her expertise that intersects history and technology shows in her work and we should be able to intertwine these trainings and previous works within out time in this program.

Discussing these topics and ways to loop into the public history we are learning was a great way to shed some light on the possibility of what work we can do on a local and state level as well as a national level.

Now let’s just stay on this with the same momentum and we’ll see what happens!

Stay tuned!!!

 

 

3 Replies to “The Van Hoy Interlude”

  1. Geremy,
    Thank you for capturing the feel of the moment of the start of the Public History program!

    I was moved by meeting Dr. Van Hoy for the first time and hearing about some of the accomplishments of some of our history student predecessors including past projects and potential future history projects.

    I noticed how in our first class you were able to naturally ‘capture the moment’ and I think that skill and instinct will serve all of us in the program well. I look forward to seeing how you apply that instinct as a colleague to help us capture some of these moments as you start looking through archive photos. I can tell you have an eye for picking out photos for a future digital collection. I think we should make some time to go visit the Marianist archives together to find the right photos to share with the broader public digitally.

    1. I completely agree with that! Thank you for the feedback! Let me know when we can take a trip over the the archives. The Marianists have always been a source of inspiration for me.

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