MidTNHistoryhopeful

I am a Park Ranger at a historic site and have worked in professional Cultural Resource Management for 4 years. I am also a semi-professional guitarist in Nashville, TN (mostly studio work, some live).

Study Area(s): The Concept of "Frontier" in North America. Specifically the 18th Century, using interdisciplinary methods of Geosciences (GIS) and archaeology. Additionally, I have a great passion for Public History and interpreting History to the public (I'm a Ranger at a State Historic Park). Why?: Because the cross-cultural adaptation and integration that took place between the various Empires at the frontier, regardless of time period, helped shape our identities as Americans. I also believe that as America pushes further into a intra-cultural era, our past experiences will resound with answers for modern questions. Thats a bit broad, so specifically I'm working on these issues applied to 18th century Tennessee and Kentucky as well as the upper Mississippi Valley. Themes I'm working with are Middle Ground, Frontier Exchange economy and Metropolitanism. I'm using GIS, geomorphology, and Archaeology in order to back historical theories with scientific fact.