Historical Administration Faculty
(see also the Eastern
Illinois History Department Faculty Page)
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Terry A. Barnhart, Professor;
Ph.D., Miami University (OH); Curator of History, The Ohio Historical
Society, 1983-94; Graduate of Seminar for Historical Administration,
Colonial Williamsburg, 1992. Teaching fields: social and cultural
history, state and local history, archival and historical agency
management, and history of museums.
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Patricia L. Miller, Adjunct Instructor;
M.A., University of Illinois; Executive Director, Illinois Heritage
Association; Past Chair, Illinois Historic Sites Advisory Council;
Senior Examiner, American Association of Museums Accreditation Program;
Museum Assessment Program (MAP) Advisory Committee. Teaching fields:
administration of historical organizations. |
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Debra Ann Reid, Associate Professor; Ph.
D., Texas A & M; M. A. in History Museum Studies, Cooperstown
Graduate Program; M. A. in History Baylor University. Experienced
in history museum and historic site interpretation as well as administration
and museum studies instruction at institutions in the Northeast,
Midwest, and Texas. Active in the Association for Living History,
Farm and Agricultural Museums (ALHFAM), Agricultural History Society,
the International Agricultural Museum Association, the Midwest Open
Air Museums Coordinating Council, and the Rural Women’s Studies
Association.Teaching fields: collections management, material culture,
and 19th and 20th century U. S. social and political history. |
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Richard V. Riccio, Adjunct Instructor;
M.A., University of Arizona; Museum Exhibit Designer; Instructor,
Museum Studies Certificate Program, Harvard University, 1990-95;
Exhibit designer, Peabody Museum, Harvard University, 1987-1995;
Curator, Worcester Historical Museum, 1983-1987; former NAME Midwest
Regional Representative. Teaching fields: exhibit design and museum
interpretation. |
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Nora Pat Small, Associate Professor; Ph.D.,
Boston University; M.A. in Architectural History, University of
Virginia; Preservation consultant, 1983-1985; Architectural Historian,
Kansas State Historical Society, 1981-1983. Teaching fields: architectural
history, historic preservation, material culture, and 18th and 19th
century social history. |
Emeritus Faculty
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E. Duane Elbert, Emeritus Professor;
Ph.D., Indiana University. Former Illinois State Historian; Postdoctoral
Fellow, Cooperstown Graduate Program; Intern, Old Sturbridge Village;
Winterthur Winter Institute 1986; Scholar-in-Residence, Landis Valley
Museum, 1989; Past President, Illinois State Historical Society;
Curator, Coles County Historical Society. Teaching fields: folk
life, decorative arts, and collections management. |
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Robert E. Hennings, Emeritus Professor; Ph.D.,
University of California, Berkeley. Taught at University of Kentucky;
Eastern Illinois University chair of history department, 1974-1990;
Southern Historical Association; Illinois State Historical Society
Board; Advisory Board of Journal of the Illinois State Historical
Society; past board member and past president of Coles County Historical
Society. Teaching fields: American colonial, American progressive
period, and architectural history.
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David J. Maurer, Emeritus Professor; Ph.D., The
Ohio State University. Consultant. First AASLH Scholar-in-Residence;
Past President, Illinois State Historical Society; Past President,
Congress of Illinois Historical Societies and Museums; two terms
on the Illinois Historic Sites Advisory Council; four terms on governor’s
Review Panel for Museum Capital grants. Teaching fields: administration
of historical organizations, collections management, and oral history. |
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