Dr. LAURA B. FRETWELL
Ph.D., George Mason University
Areas of Expertise
- Digital and Public History
- Space, Place and Memory
- American South
Email: lfretwell@fau.edu
Office Phone: 561-297-2687
Laura B. Fretwell is Assistant Professor of Digital and Public History at Florida Atlantic University. She researches the histories of cultural institutions, identity, memory, and ideas of belonging and power throughout the nineteenth and twentieth century American South. Her research and teaching often incorporates public history and digital humanities methods such as digital mapping and oral history interviews. Her book manuscript in progress, Forgetting the Freed: The Buried Histories of Chimborazo Park, analyzes the dynamics between past community organizing, placemaking, and memory by recovering the largely unknown experiences and memories of African American residents displaced from a public and commemorative site in Richmond, Virginia. She has held fellowships and worked as a Historical Consultant and Public Facilitator across a variety of public humanities institutions, including the National Park Service, the Smithsonian Institution, the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University, the Centre for Contemporary and Digital History at the University of Luxembourg, and various nonprofit organizations. She teaches courses in American history and digital and public history.
Undergraduate Courses
- US History Since 1877
- US History to 1877
- Public History
- Oral History
- Digital History
Graduate Courses
- Public History
- Digital History
Curriculum Vitae (Available upon request)