National Council on Public History

Degrees Offered

• Other

Program Strengths

• Historic Preservation
• Material Culture
• Oral History

Credit Hour Requirements

60

How Many Students are Admitted Annually

MA~15

MAs produced last year

MSes last year was 18

Full-time Program Staff/Faculty

We typically have 2 full time staff (currently hiring for one position) who serve the preservation program, a master of resilient urban design degree, and architecture/landscape architecture students studying in Charleston;

3 full time faculty members;

and an amazing ‘bench’ of preservation professionals who teach a course in their area of specialization as lecturers

Financial Aid Available

Fellowships (in the form of tuition waivers); paid hourly work (graduate workers)

Deadline To Apply

Applications are accepted on a rolling basis

Internship Requirements

An internship is required to be completed in the summer between the two-year course of study. Students earn 3-credit hours for this internship. Students are encouraged to find paid internship work and program faculty assist with network connections to assist students in finding their internship, although it is the responsibility of each student to secure an internship.

Places Where Students Have Interned During the Past 3 Years

• Bennett Preservation Engineering
• National Park Service
• Ryan Tax Professionals (Historic Tax Credits)
• Historic Charleston Foundation
• Preservation Maine
• Warren Lasch Conservation Center
• Drayton Hall
• The Christman Company

Job Placement Percentage Within One Year

Employers Who Have Hired Graduates from this Program within the Past Five Years

• Historic Preservationist, Designing Local, Columbus OH
• Historic Preservation Planner, Town of Telluride, Telluride, CO
• Architectural Historian, North Wind Consulting, Phoenix, AZ
• Interpreter and Gravestone Restoration Assistant, Drayton Hall and KKBE Synagogue, Charleston, SC
• Junior Preservation Specialist/ Cultural Resource Planner, Page & Turnbull, San Francisco CA
• Preservation Planner, City of Charleston, SC
• Cultural Resources Technician with Colorado State University at the Hill Air Force Base
• Contractor for Atlantic Heritage
• Project Preservationist, George Washington’s Mount Vernon, Alexandria, VA
• Historic Preservation Planner, Town of Wake Forest, NC
• National Trust for Historic Preservation and BVL Historic Preservation Research
• Architectural Historian, State of Hawaii
• Project Engineer, The Christman Company, Sterling, VA
• Richard Marks Restorations, Charleston, SC

• Architectural Historian, New South Associates INC. Nashville, TN
• Bennett Preservation Engineering, Charleston, SC
• Zoning Administrator/Planner, City of Georgetown Planning and Community Development Department, Georgetown, SC
• Intern, New Hampshire Preservation Alliance
• Historic Preservation Specialist/Restoration Carpenter, Shenandoah Restorations
• Architectural Historian, AECOM, Raleigh, NC

• Preservation Maintenance Research Associate, NCPE/Olmsted Center for Landscape Preservation
• Technical Preservation Services Manager, Ohio History Connection, Columbus, OH Town of Abingdon, VA
• Preservation Planner, BAR, Charleston, SC
• Researcher, EHT Traceries, Washington, DC
• Historian, US Army Corps of Engineers, Seattle, WA
• Architectural Historian, Dovetail Cultural Resource Group, Fredericksburg, VA
• Architectural Historian, Evans & DeShazo, Inc., Sebatopol, CA
• Preservation & Architectural Support Specialist, PROSOCO
• Architectural Conservator at MTFA Architecture, Washington, D.C.
• Architecture Consultant, Meadors (Architecture Department), Charleston, SC
• Historic Preservation Specialist, Warren Lash Conservation Center, North Charleston SC

Community & Institutional Connections

Charleston, SC area based

• Richard Hampton Jenerette Foundation
• Preservation Society of Charleston
• Historic Charleston Foundation
• Drayton Hall
• Lincolnville Preservation & Historical Society

South Carolina

• Preservation South Carolina
• South Carolina Department of Archives and History

Degrees Offered

• Other

Program Strengths

• Other