Career Opportunities

Graduates of the public history have gone on to find employment at places like the USS Salter Museum, Vermilionville Historic Park, Tabasco Archives, the National World War II Museum, the Historic New Orleans Collection, the Smithsonian, teh Levine Museum of the New South, the Lafayette Natural History Museum, the Dallas Museum of Art, the City of Lafayette, the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities, the New Orleans Children’s Museum, the Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center, the Ohio State Legislature, and the Center for Cultural and Eco-Tourism. Others have entered more traditional teaching fields or gone on to pursue advanced degrees in History and Law.

Alumni include:

• Public Programs Coordinator at the National World War II Museum, New Orleans, Louisiana
• Education Programs Manager, Levine Museum of the New South, Charlotte, North Carolina
• Curator, Vermilionville Living History Site, Lafayette, Louisiana
• Director of Preservation Services at Foundation for Historical Louisiana