HIstory Students Co-Curate Louisiana State Museum Exhibit

We are excited to see several years' work by our students, faculty, and alumni come together in a new exhibit, "Louisiana Women Healers in the Progressive Era," at the Louisiana State Museum-Capital Park. The exhibit highlights under-shared stories of Louisiana women’s history and looks at how women broke barriers while revolutionizing the development of medicine in Louisiana.

The exhibit started as an Applied Public History Seminar student project in 2020. The exhibit-design course explored the LSM’s history of science and medicine collections, and the students chose to narrow their focus to women's health. Since then, undergraduate and graduate students have continued working on the project in conjunction with our alumnus Anne Mahoney, the LSM-Capital Park museum’s curator, and the Guilbeau Center for Public History and its director, Dr. Marissa Petrou.

Congratulations to everyone involved, but especially our former and current History BA and MA students who worked on this exhibit: Jesse Wuoti, Nick Ellis, Shydee Johnson, Kaci Breaux, Theresa Slovacek-Herera, Kerri Sullivan Leger, Kassie McCallister, Nick Tate, Christine Savoie, Sydney Shuherk, and Ian Gregory Graff.

The exhibit will be revealed at a special Louisiana State Museum-Capital Park After Hours event on Thursday, July 25, from 4-6 pm.