Lisa Withers

Jun 1, 2020

Public History PhD student, Lisa R. Withers, receives Doctoral Dissertation Completion Grant

Public History PhD student, Lisa R. Withers receives a Doctoral Dissertation Completion Grant.

Jan 16, 2019

Public History PhD student, Lisa Withers, works to preserve Green Book spaces

The History Department is proud to announce that Public History PhD student, Lisa Withers, was featured on Fox News for the work she is doing to preserve Green Book safe spaces in North Carolina. 

Aug 1, 2018  |  Humanities and Social Sciences News

Exploring Public History in Prague

With the city of Prague as their classroom, a group of NC State students experienced the power of public history. During a two-week summer course in the Czech Republic, six students visited medieval monuments, a concentration camp and nearly a dozen other sites in and around the capital city.

Jun 25, 2018

Graduate Students Present Work at National Council on Public History Conference

Public History graduate students, Katie Schinabeck, Sarah Soleim, Lisa Withers, and Hanna Howard attended the 2018 NCPH conference in Las Vegas this past Spring. Working within the theme of “Power Lines,” the students projects focused on addressing the power of […]

Jul 18, 2017

Reports from the Field: Public History Graduate Students Attend the Annual Meeting for the National Council on Public History (NCPH)

In April 2017, several NC State public history students attended the NCPH annual meeting in Indianapolis, Indiana. The following interview provides the perspectives of two student attendees, Katie Schinabeck and Lisa Withers. Both individuals are doctoral students in the public history program at NC State.