Alison Vick
E-mail: avick2@vols.utk.edu
Website: alisonvick.wordpress.com
EDUCATION
Ph.D History, University of Tennessee- Knoxville (Beginning Fall 2014)
MA, History, Virginia Tech, 2013
Thesis: “A Catalyst for the Development of Human Rights: German Internment Practices in the First World War, 1914-1929”
Graduate Certificate in Public History
BA, East Tennessee State University, Summa cum Laude, 2009
History major, German minor
EMPLOYMENT
Adjunct History Instructor, Pellissippi State Community College, 2013-present
Courses Taught: U.S. History to 1877, U.S. History since 1877, World Civilization since 1500
Adjunct History Instructor, King University, 2013-Present
Courses Taught: Online U.S. History to 1877, Online U.S. History since 1877, Ordered Communities and Societies
History Interpreter and Program Coordinator, Tennessee State Parks, May 2013- August 2013
Develop and present programs documenting the history of East Tennessee in the eighteenth century
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Virginia Tech, 2011-2013
Twentieth-Century German, Fall 2012
History of the Balkans, Fall 2012
Historical Methods, Fall 2011
Summer Research Intern, College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences, 2012
Prepare grant reports on external funding opportunities for individual faculty members in the History and Foreign Language Departments
History Interpreter and Archivist, Tennessee State Parks, 2010-2011
Coordinate and present history programs at Cordell Hull Birthplace State Park and Sergeant Alvin C. York State Park
Manage, organize, and preserve the Hull Library and Archives
Develop museum exhibits
Write interpretive scripts & park interpretive panels for Hull/York audio tours
Write grants for park improvements
History Interpreter at Sergeant Alvin C. York State Park, Tennessee State Parks, 2009
Develop and coordinate programs for a public audience on The First World War
AWARDS
William Preston Society Thesis Award, Virginia Tech, 2014
Outstanding Thesis Award, Virginia Tech, 2014
Tennessee State Parks Employee Award, 2011
Tennessee Association of Museums Annual Conference Scholarship Award, 2011
Tennessee State Parks Appreciation Award, 2009
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Publications
Research Note: “We are a Distinct and Peculiar People: Oliver Perry Temple and the Knoxville Industrial
Agency Address of 1869,” The Journal of East Tennessee History, 84 (Spring 2013): 87-100.
“Keichline, Anna Wagner (1889–1943),” IN Lisa Frank, ed., An Encyclopedia of American Women at
War: From the Home Front to the Battle Fields. (Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2013): 335-6.
http://ebooks.abc-clio.com/reader.aspx?isbn=9781598844443
“Wilson, Ruth Willson,” IN Lisa Frank, ed., An Encyclopedia of American Women at
War: From the Home Front to the Battle Fields. (Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2013): 601-2.
http://ebooks.abc-clio.com/reader.aspx?isbn=9781598844443
Conference Presentations and Lectures
“The Pursuit of International Law at Leipzig: The War Crimes Trials Following the First World
War” Brian Bertoti Innovative Perspectives in History Graduate Conference, Blacksburg, VA: April 2013
“Panthers under Foreign Skies: The 36th Infantry Division and the End of the Great War”
Brian Bertoti Innovative Perspectives in History Graduate Conference, Blacksburg, VA: April 2012
“Blacksburg Oral History Project” Blacksburg History Lecture Series, Blacksburg, VA: December 2011
“Nature as a School: Creating Junior Ranger Summer Camps for Children of Every Age”
Alliance for the Cumberlands Annual Conference, Fall Creek Falls State Park, Pikeville, TN: February 2011
Journal Editing
Journal of East Tennessee Intern, Fall 2012
Editing, copyediting, photo and illustration selection, photo captions
Public History Activities
Report on the Historic Properties of Blacksburg, Virginia, Spring 2013
Research and prepare written report on the history of Blacksburg’s historic properties based on archival research
Mini-Documentary on the Public History Program at Virginia Tech, Spring 2012
Interview faculty members and students about the Public History program at Virginia Tech and edit using FinalCut software
http://www.vtpublichistory.org/the-program/
Blacksburg Oral History Project, Fall 2011
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