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Community History Project
at Belmont University
To engage with local neighborhoods to teach,
preserve, and share our community history and culture
History cannot give us a program for the future, but it can give us
a fuller understanding of ourselves, and of our common humanity,
so that we can better face the future.
Robert Penn Warren
A proposal by Angela J. Smith, Ph.D.
August 18, 2011
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Introduction
With the broad objectives of education, outreach, partnership, research and documentation,the Belmont Community History Project can bring together distinct historic resources and
disciplines. Cultural information and community stories are contained in individuals, families,
businesses, churches, schools and in personal memories and old boxes that all of them have
tucked away. Te Community History Project is a methodical, interdisciplinary approach in which
students track down and explore these resources to advance their own academic goals and to add
to the legacy of local history.
Tis project is designed to begin at the university and extend step by step into the immediate
neighborhoods and then beyond. Students will learn to use established historical methods to do
the research and data collection; to interpret it through their own and others examination; and to
preserve and document their nds so that they will later be widely accessible to the public.
Research and documentation are both the process and the product of such a project, but
partnership is essential to achieve them. Connecting the project and participants will allow us
to share existing resources and jointly pursue grant opportunities and other support where it is
appropriate. Beyond material and nancial partnership and even education and outreach, the
Community History Project can be one more of the increasing ways that Belmont is recognized
and can serve well beyond its boundaries.
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Implementation
1. Angela Smith, whose CV begins on page 12, earned a doctorate in Public Historyat Middle ennessee State University in May 2011. Tis project proposes that she
teach two sections of Historical Documentary Filmmaking (Junior Cornerstone)
and one honors course in Spring 2012, and concurrently she will begin to develop
local history initiatives.
2. As a full-time employee, she will initially:
a. teach 3/3 load of local history-based courses with a 3-hour course
equivalent to administer the initiatives and build, then manage the
web component tof the project.
b. plan, coordinate, and develop projects and establish outcomes.
c. network with local history professionals, educators, and interested
members of the community.
d. build an accessible website to share research results with the publicand provide a platform for student historical documentary projects.
3. Initial projects
a. Block History Initiative
Tis is a long-term project where students in disciplines such as
history, health sciences, sociology, education, and religion will
conduct methodical, block by block research of the city of Nashville.
Te information will be catalogued and translated into a searchable
geographical information system (GIS) database that provides a
visual framework of change over time. Initial conversations have
taken place with several people involved with Vanderbilt Medical
School and the geo-science GIS department at MSU, and there is
interest in further exploring possibilities.
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b. Student Historical Documentary Film Festival
odays high school and college students have unprecedented
technological savvy that can be coupled with academic studies.Several lm festivals and local theaters around the country show
quality documentary lms created by students. Tis initiative
is aimed at giving students a venue for competition and a larger
public audience. It could link not only with the various disciplines,
but also with such things as the annual campus theme Wealth
and Poverty in 2011-12 as well as the ongoing theme, Ways of
Knowing. Te Metro Public Library is open to partnerships in this
endeavor.
c. Local Church History Initiative
Tis initiative can take various forms. For example, students in
an independent study or Community of Scholars project could
conduct research on a particular churchs history, teach members
how to digitize church historical records, and conduct oral histories
of longtime church members. Tis project could be tied to courses
in religion or history. Partnerships might include interfaith
organizations and religious publishing houses.
d. Edgehill Oral History Project
With the growth of Belmont University, the physical and sociological
landscape continues to change. Te Edgehill Oral History Project
would focus on methodically capturing the perspectives of residents
who have seen the area morph into its present form with the
attendant physical and sociological changes. Tere are potential
partnerships on Music Row.
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Project Objectives
Educate BU students and the community about the land and place that have been common toboth, as well as the unique histories that have followed.
Reach out in an eort to create a historical record of our neighbors experiences, stories and
artifacts.
Partner with classes and student groups, churches, civic groups, and libraries to expand
opportunities for outreach and service.
Research the communities that surround Belmont in an eort to discover and record our
history Belmont and Beyond in university classrooms as well as church and community
forums.
Document and catalog the work of the project in a publicly accessible venues such as the
Community History Projects website and public lectures and presentations on and o campus.
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Objective: Education
each BU history courses that focus on local historical research such as the Junior Cornerstone,Historical Documentary Filmmaking. Model can extend across disciplines in both classroom and
service learning.
o begin, focus on the areas where Belmont, Edgehill and Music Row have intersected through
their respective histories:
land use change over time
demographics
cultural landscape studies
histories of Belmont and neighborhoods
history of the music industry in Nashville
Objective: Structured Outreach in the Community Oer opportunities for local residents to learn about preservation and digitization. In the
process we capture the stories in oral and video histories; we digitize their photographs
and identify them (and, of course, return them.) Ultimately, there will be a place that the
neighborhood and the broader public can come to study and add to the collected records.
Oer community classes and workshops for little or no cost to participants. Design some to
be intergenerational children and their grandparents and others to be student or adult
learning.
Partner with local schools to share our discoveries with the next generation. At Belmont, the
initiative could work with sociology, journalism, history, political science, and music business
professors to develop course projects anchored in the local community.
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Oer educational opportunities and exhibits within the community Easley Project, school
auditoriums, church fellowship halls, Edgehill Branch Library, high-rise apartments and clinic.
Develop history-related entrepreneurial opportunities for area residents and students. Ideas
such as helping create a small publishing company to publish short run books and pamphlets
could oer ways to develop practical skill sets and bring the project back to the community
in a concrete form.
Belmont art and photography students can create works using vintage and contemporary
Edgehill photos. Te proposed Community History Project can hang exhibits where people pass
by and stop, look and talk about what they see. Tey share their stories: I remember ...
Public Relations students can plan events for opening receptions and can use Community
History Project materials to create brochures or keepsakes to pass out.
Education students can work with teachers at Rose Park and Carter-Lawrence on lesson plans
that incorporate material that Belmonts Community History Project has gathered.
Sports administration students and athletes can create an exhibit and nd speakers for an event
related to the Negro Leagues.
Community Health Research
Objective: Community Partnerships
Tere are many partnership opportunities for the Community History Project. Te project
can approach local libraries, schools, and churches with a goal of learning and preserving the
communitys history: oer the community a chance to create their own historical narrative rather
than have others create it for them; and partner with classes and student groups, churches, civicgroups, and libraries to expand opportunities for outreach and service. Initially partnerships could
include geo-sciences lab at MSU, Vanderbilt Health Sciences, Meharry Medical Center, Belmont
Mansion, Metro Public Schools, ennessee State Library and Archives, Metro Public Library, and
Metro Archives.
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Objective: Research and Documentation
Te Community History Project is a vehicle to research the communities that surroundBelmont in an eort to discover and record our common history and culture Belmont and
Beyond in university classrooms as well as church and community forums. Systematic research
projects will build a collaborative community history. Many times research is conducted in a
vacuum where individuals are unaware of what others are doing. A primary goal is to create and
coordinate a central repository that ensures that the research of Belmont classes, public schools,
and the community becomes part of the record that exists and also expands upon it.
Te work of the project will be documented and catalogued in publicly accessible venues such
as an interactive website as well as public lectures and presentations on and o campus.
In the beginning, that does not require that the university create a dedicated space to house it.
A replicable academic model will be documented and ultimately shared.
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Funding
I believe there are grants available for this project. Initial conversations suggest this mightbe a t for an NEH digital initiative grant, as well as science foundation grants for health-based
community research. I have spoken to a contact at Vanderbilt who is interested in discussing a
partnership based in community health research. Tere is value in studying economic, ethnic,
social, and cultural changes in a community over time. Te areas of change are important not only
for the history, but also for matching donor objectives.
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Community History Project DRAFT Detailed Budget
Tis assumes a federal grant (not a private donor) whereby the sponsor funds Direct costs plusIndirect costs at the full negotiated rate of 38%. Its important to note that not all of our existing
federal contracts have won the full 38% rate. If this is funded by a private sponsor, then what and
how much the organization will fund varies.
Category Grant Year 1 Grant Year 2
Personnel Compensation
$50,000 (100% FTE on
10-month contract)
$52,000 (100% FTE on
10-month contract) assumes
4% pay increase
Equipment and Supplies
$45,000 (9 media
kits@$5,000 per kit) +
$3,250 (computer, Web, &
design software for PI) =
$48,250 $0
Other Costs $250 (annual Web hosting) $250 (annual Web hosting)
Total Direct Costs $95,250 $52,250
Indirect Costs or F&A (full
federal rate is 38% of DirectCosts) $36,195 $19,855
Grand Total $131,445 $72,105
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Angela J. Smith131 Holly Forest
Nashville, Tennessee 37221
hm: 615.673.6447 cell: 615.513.6324 smithangj@gmail.com
Portfolio site - http://newmediahistory.com/portfolio/
[most material listed below is displayed in the digital portolio]
Education
Ph.D.
Public HistoryMiddle Tennessee State UniversityMay 2011GPA: 4.0Dissertation: John Beecher: An Activist Poet Chronicles an American CenturyDissertation website: http://newmediahistory.com/johnbeecher/
M.A.
HistoryMiddle Tennessee State UniversitySpring 2007GPA: 3.96Thesis: Highlander Folk School and its Adversaries, 1932-1942
B.A.
Belmont UniversityDecember 1984Communication Arts and English
Teaching Experience
HIS 3015, Historical Documentary Filmmaking
Belmont UniversityConceptualized, developed and taught a Problem-Based Learning Junior Cornerstone course; course oered by the HistoryDepartment to non-history majors as part o the universitys General Education requirement; class objectives included localhistory research, group collaboration, and public presentation; fnal flm product or each o the three student groups waspresented to a public audience at the end o the semester.2009-2010 (3 semesters)
Multimedia Storytelling
Belmont UniversityTaught journalism students the mechanics and crat o digital storytelling. The course ocused on the undamentals ovideo, audio, still photography, and standard web delivery systems.
Spring 2011
History 2020, Survey of American History, 1877-present
Middle Tennessee State UniversitySpring 2010
History 2010, Survey of American History through Reconstruction
Middle Tennessee State UniversityAs GTA, assisted Dr. Jan Leone by planning and presenting primary source exercises once a week.Fall 2009
CURRICULUM VITAE
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Changing Media: US and UK
Cooperative Center or Study Abroad Summer ProgramAssisted Linda Quigley, a Media Studies instructor at Belmont University, in a study abroad course in London or fveweeks. Worked with her to develop activities, lectures, feld trips to introduce students to dierences between British andAmerican media in print, web and multimedia.Summer 2007
Visual Journalism
Belmont University
Developed and taught a class that ocused on blending narrative, graphics, and technology to tell stories in new ways.Spring 2007, 2009
Historical Documentary Independent Study
Belmont UniversityFour students have taken the course since 2004, with each producing a documentary on a dierent topics: the lunchcounter sit-ins in Nashville during the 1960s; the early history o the antebellum Belmont Estate; the history o RCA StudioB; and Nashvilles Park Center, a nonproft that serves clients with chronic mental illnesses.2004-2008
Introduction to Media Technology
Belmont UniversityTaught web section o this course, which was designed to introduce the varied technologies used in todays media world to
reshman public relations and journalism students.Fall 2004-2006
Journalism Practicum 2
Belmont UniversityAssisted in developing curriculum or inaugural hands-on course or students to learn online online journalism by practicingthe discipline; fnal product was a hyperlocal website to cover the university and its surrounding neighborhood; co-taughtwith Dr. Sybril Bennett.Spring 2005
Community of Scholars Course in Historical Documentary Filmmaking
Belmont UniversityDeveloped and taught summer intensive that ocused on telling the story o the ounding o Belmont College as a womens
school in 1890 and its history or the next 60 years; our students met or class three hours a day or fve weeks and, aterresearching archives and conducting and flming oral histories, students produced two documentary flms that were shownto a public audience at the end o the course.Summer 2005
Publications/Work Products
Myles Horton, Highlander Folk School and the Wilder Strike of 1932
Published on Highlanders websitehttp://www.highlandercenter.org/links.asp
1946 Columbia Race Riot
Produced and designed websitehttp://www.mtsu.edu/~tnriot46/
The History of Murfreesboro Electric Department
Worked with the Center or Historic Preservation at MTSU to produce a documentary about the history o MurreesboroElectric Department.
Refuse to Fold
For academic documentary, partnered with Brian Dempsey to document the changing narrative o the blues in theMississippi Delta; conducted interviews, shot ootage and photos; responsible or production and editing o flm publishedas part o Brians Ph.D. dissertation.
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Genesco Archive Project
As contract employee, evaluated, catalogued, and rehoused company papers or Genesco, an 85-year-old Nashville,Tennessee, shoe retailer that currently owns Journeys, Johnston&Murphy, Underground Station, Dockers, and Lids stores.
CRM Project: Land ownership along Van Cleve Lane
A cultural landscape project that examined land ownership history on a section o Stones River National Battlefeld inMurreesboro, Tennessee.
Oaklands Plantation Exhibit: Beyond the PlantationAssisted director by designing, printing and acilitating the installation o the frst exhibit to interpret Arican-Americanpresence and legacy at the Oaklands Plantation in Murreesboro, Tennessee.
Landmarks of American History Website: War of Invasion, War of Liberation
Designed website or Landmarks o American History grant or Dr. Robert Hunt.
Material Culture Resource Project
Created a content management site (Drupal) or a class collaboration or Dr. Bren Martin; created the inrastructure anddesign and students added instructional material on the preservation o material culture or the general public.
Conference Presentations
March 3, 2009Panelist: History to Storyline: Media and Mediating the Message
George Wright Society Biennial Conerence on Parks, Protected Areas, and Cultural SitesPortland, Oregon
April 13, 2007Panelist: Visual Media and History: Using Technologies to Teach and Learn History
Annual Meeting o the National Council o Public HistorySanta F, New Mexico
November 12, 2005Thesis research presentation on Highlander Folk School
Education or Social Change: The Story o the Highlander Folk School rom 1932 to the Present.Symposium sponsored by Nashville Public LibraryNashville, Tennessee
September 29, 2006Visual Media and History: Using New Technologies to Teach and Learn History
Tennessee Conerence o HistoriansNashville, Tennessee
Feb. 9, 2005They Marched
Instructed and supervised student Tamara Tatars production o documentary on civil rights events in mid-1960s inNashville; presented fnished work at Arican-American History Conerence, Tennessee State University.Nashville, Tennessee
May 2004The Holland Farm
Researched, flmed and produced documentary on one o Tennessees Century Farms; presented to the board o the LandTrust or Tennessee.Nashville, Tennessee
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Grants and Grant Proposals
2010Digital Commons Proposal
Belmont UniversityDesigned and specd a lending library that would be called a learning commons to create a central place or students toreceive training and then check out digital equipment or use in classwork throughout the university; the proposal is underconsideration by the Ofce o Provost.
2008Moving History Grant Proposal
First Annual Digital Media and Learning CompetitionSponsored by the MacArthur Foundation, Duke University, and HASTACProposed a mobile history initiative to partner with Dr. Chad Berry and the Center or Appalachian Studies at Berea Collegein Kentucky; goal o initiative was to raise the level o digital literacy among citizens in under-served rural populations innon-traditional and non-threatening learning environment; proposal did not win, the idea remains relevant i proper undingwere available.
2007-2008
Digital History StudioTechnology Access Fund GrantMiddle Tennessee State UniversityDesigned, specd, and purchased equipment with a $117,000 grant or a digital history studio in the History Department.Purchased 20 Macintosh laptops, laptop storage cart, server, RAID, proessional video cameras, proessional lighting,proessional digital still cameras, and accompanying sotware.
Work Experience
January 2004 to presentBelmont University
Part-time sta; adjunct instructorGraphics and web adviser to Belmont Vision, student newspaper o Belmont University; responsibilities include layoutand design o newspaper and website, teaching and acilitating student learning o design process and equipment use inproduction environment. Also designed Connect Magazine or Media Studies Department Spring 2006-2010; in additionto layout, design, and advising; also responsible or hardware and sotware purchases and upkeep in student mediaofce; purchased and maintained computers and digital equipment such as still and video cameras, microphones, audiorecorders. Additionally, rom 2007-present, served as adjunct instructor in the Media Studies Department teaching mediatechnology and multimedia courses, and in the History Department teaching Historical Documentary Filmmaking.
April 2008 to presentFreedom Forum Diversity Institute
Adjunct Multimedia FacultyAssist in teaching multimedia workshops or minority students and practicing journalists in early years o careers; in thiscapacity, work as contract employee or Diversity Institute o the Freedom Forum, based in Nashville.
1998-presentFreelance designer
Worked with a variety o clients in Nashville to produce web and print projects.
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1985-2002Graphic Design
Prepress Production
Web Design and Production
Employed by several print and graphic design companies over a 20-year period; worked at a national color separationhouse as the digital specialist in Nashville during the transition rom analog to digital technology in late 1980s; capitalizedon that knowledge and moved to San Francisco Bay area to manage prepress department o a large oset printer in the
East Bay; three years later, moved to Salem, Oregon, or similar opportunity. Chose to return to Nashville 12-years ago towork in design business and to enter graduate school.
Jackson Design, Nashville, TennesseeThird Power Imaging, Nashville, TennesseeK/P Graphics, Salem, OregonGehre Graphics, Concord, CaliorniaNEC Corp, Nashville, TennesseeAW Vidmer & Company, Brentwood, Tennessee
Technical Skills
Profcient in design or print, web, and flmmaking; thorough knowledge o design, web, and digital flmmaking sotwaresuch as Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, Quark Xpress, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Flash, HTML, CSS, WordPress,Drupal, Final Cut Pro, DVD Studio Pro, LiveType, Soundtrack Pro, and AterEects as well as in-depth knowledge oscanning, photography, proessional lighting, sound, and proessional video cameras; worked with Macintosh computersor most o career and have experience providing in-depth technical support and instruction in their use; also have workingknowledge o Microsot Windows.
Honor Societies
Phi Kappa Phi, inducted spring 2006
Scholarships
Bart McCash Memorial Scholarship, MTSU, 2006 and 2008
Design Awards
2011 Southeast Journalism Conerence, 1st, Best Magazine, or Connect Magazine; 1st, Best Website, orbelmontvision.com
2010 Southeast Journalism Conerence, 1st, Best Magazine, or Connect Magazine2009 Southeast Journalism Conerence, 1st, Best Magazine, or Connect Magazine2008 Southeast Journalism Conerence, 2nd, Best Website, or belmontvision.com; Honorable Mention, Best
Newspaper, Belmont Vision; Honorable Mention, Best Magazine, or Connect Magazine2007 Southeast Journalism Conerence, 1st, Best Magazine or Connect Magazine2006 Southeastern Journalism Conerence, 1st, Best Website, belmontvision.com
2003 Local and national Addy or Vanderbilt School or Medicine Promotional package2001 Local and national Addy or packaging design o CD booklet, O Brother, Where Art Thou?2001 Local and national Addy or design o book, I Hope You Dance1990 Local Addy or best letterhead design
Professional Memberships
American Association o History and ComputingAmerican Historical AssociationNational Council on Public HistoryOrganization o American HistoriansSouthern Historical Association