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Cultural Resource Management

  • Overview
  • Faculty
  • Admissions Requirements
  • Certificate
  • Learning Outcomes

Department website: https://history.wvu.edu/

Certificate Offered

  • Cultural Resource Management

Nature of the Program

The Graduate Certificate in Cultural Resource Management provides instruction in the theory and practice of federally-mandated compliance for historic preservation and cultural resource management.  This certificate complements many WVU graduate programs including Art History, History, Public History, Public Administration, and Recreation Parks and Tourism Resources.  Individuals with an undergraduate degree with an interest in historic preservation, museums, and other cultural resources who want to earn the certificate without enrolling in a graduate degree program are eligible to apply.


Faculty

Chair

  • Kate Staples - Ph.D. (University of Minnesota)

Associate Chair

  • Matthew Vester - Ph.D. (University of California, Los Angeles)

Director of Graduate Studies

  • Jason Phillips - Ph.D. (Rice University)

Director of Undergraduate Studies

  • William Gorby - Ph.D. (West Virginia University)

Professors

  • Brian Luskey - Ph.D. (Emory University)
    Regular Graduate Faculty, 19th-century U.S., Social and Cultural History
  • Jason Phillips - Ph.D. (Rice University)
    Regular Graduate Faculty, Eberly Family Professor of Civil War Studies, Civil War Era, 19th-century U.S., Southern History, Material Culture
  • James Siekmeier - Ph.D. (Cornell University)
    Regular Graduate Faculty, U.S. Diplomatic, Modern Latin America
  • Matthew Vester - Ph.D. (University of California, Los Angeles)
    Regular Graduate Faculty, Early Modern Europe, Italy

Associate Professors

  • Melissa Bingmann - Ph.D. (Arizona State University)
    Regular Graduate Faculty, Public history, 20th-century U.S.
  • William Gorby - Ph.D. (West Virginia University)
    Associate Graduate Faculty, West Virginia, Appalachia, Immigration
  • Sheena Harris - Ph.D. (The University of Memphis)
    Regular Graduate Faculty, Race, Class, Gender, Education, Black Women's Organizations, Hip-Hop Feminism
  • Joseph Hodge - Ph.D. (Queen’s University at Kingston)
    Regular Graduate Faculty, Modern Britain, British Empire, Decolonization, International Development, Africa
  • Tamba E. M'bayo - Ph.D. (Michigan State University)
    Regular Graduate Faculty, West Africa, Colonial and Postcolonial, African Diaspora and Pan-Africanism
  • Kate Staples - Ph.D. (University of Minnesota)
    Regular Graduate Faculty, Medieval, Gender, England, Material Culture
  • Mark B. Tauger - Ph.D. (University of California, Los Angeles)
    Regular Graduate Faculty, 20th-century Russia/USSR, World/Comparative, Historiography
  • Jessica Wilkerson - Ph.D. (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill)
    Regular Graduate Faculty, Joyce and Stuart Robbins Chair, Appalachia and the South, Women, Gender, and Sexuality, 20th-c U.S., Labor and Working Class History

Assistant Professors

  • Brooke Durham - Ph.D. (Stanford University)
    Regular Graduate Faculty, Modern Europe, French Empire, North Africa, Decolonization
  • Max Flomen - Ph.D. (University of California, Los Angeles)
    Regular Graduate Faculty, Early American History, Native American History
  • Sean Lawrence - Ph.D. (University of California, Santa Cruz)
    Regular Graduate Faculty, Germany, Colonialism, Middle East, Environment, Political Economy
  • Austin McCoy - Ph.D. (University of Michigan)
    Regular Graduate Faculty, 20th-Century U.S., African-American, Labor, Social Movements
  • Devin Smart - Ph.D. (University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign)
    Regular Graduate Faculty, Africa, World/Global, Environmental
  • Jennifer Thornton - Ph.D. (University of California, Riverside)
    Associate Graduate Faculty, Public History

Emeriti Faculty

  • William S. Arnett - Ph.D. (Ohio State University)
  • Robert E. Blobaum - Ph.D. (University of Nebraska)
  • William I. Brustein - Ph.D. (University of Washinton)
  • Elizabeth Fones-Wolf - Ph.D. (University of Massachusetts)
  • Kenneth Fones-Wolf - Ph.D. (Temple University)
  • Jack Hammersmith - Ph.D. (University of Virginia)
  • Barbara J. Howe - Ph.D. (Temple University)
  • Elizabeth K. Hudson - Ph.D. (Indiana University)
  • Ronald L. Lewis - Ph.D. (University of Akron)
  • Mary Lou Lustig - Ph.D. (Syracuse University)
  • Robert M. Maxon - Ph.D. (Syracuse University)
  • Stephen C. McCluskey - Ph.D. (University of Wisconsin)
  • A. Michal McMahon - Ph.D. (University of Texas)
  • John C. Super - Ph.D. (University of California, Los Angeles)

Admissions for 2025-2026

Graduate Certificate in Cultural Resource Management

The Graduate Certificate in Cultural Resource Management provides instruction in the theory and practice of federally-mandated compliance for historic preservation and cultural resource management.  This certificate complements many WVU graduate programs including Art History, History, Public History, Public Administration, and Recreation Parks and Tourism Resources. Individuals with an undergraduate degree with an interest in historic preservation, museums, and other cultural resources who want to earn the certificate without enrolling in a graduate degree program are eligible to apply. The GRE is not required for admission to this program.

List of Admission Requirements: 
  • See the steps to apply for admissions and access the application here.
  • Curriculum Vitae or Resume. 
  • Students currently enrolled in a graduate degree program should meet with the CRM coordinator before applying.
International Applicants:
  • See the steps to apply for admissions and access the application here.
  • International applicants should view additional requirements here and here.
  • English language proficiency is required in order to hold a graduate teaching assistantship. See here.
Application Deadline:
  • The Cultural Resource Management Certificate program admits students on a rolling basis.

For questions, please contact: history@mail.wvu.edu

Certificate Code: CG02

Graduate Certificate in Cultural Resource Management

Certificate Code - CG02

Graduation requirement: Students must earn a minimum cumulative GPA of 2.75 and a minimum GPA of 3.0 in courses applied to the certificate.

Course List
Code Title Hours
CORE COURSES6
HIST 600
Cultural Resource Management
Select one course from the following list: *
ARHS 491
Professional Field Experience
HIST 620
Practicum in Cultural Resource Management
HIST 614
Internship in Public History
PUBA 751
Public Service Internship
RPTR 608
Recreation and Park Management Practicum
ELECTIVES9
Select three courses from the following list: *
ARHS 411
Conservation Practices: Digital Documentation, Treatment, Condition Assessment
ARHS 412
Collections Care and Preservation of Material Objects
HIST 609
Field Methods in Historic Preservation
HIST 610
Historic Site Interpretation
HIST 613
Local History Research Methodology
HIST 615
Museum Studies
GEOG 550
Geographic Information Science
LARC 465
Regional Design
LARC 466
Introduction to Urban Design Issues
PUBA 610
Public and Nonprofit Management
PUBA 645
Public Policy and Administration
PUBA 655
Public Engagement
RPTR 680
Non-Personal Interpretation
Total Hours15
*

Other courses to fulfill this requirement may be submitted to the Cultural Resource Management certificate advisor for approval. 

Certificate Learning Outcomes

Cultural Resource Management

Students earning a Certificate in Cultural Resource Management will be able to:

1. Interpret and apply federal and state laws, statutes, regulations, and policy that impact cultural resources and their management.

2. Employ professional methodologies in researching, recording, and evaluating cultural resources.

3. Synthesize information from a wide variety of sources to create cultural resource management documents, such as National Register evaluations, management plans, mitigation recommendations, interpretive strategies, and other technical reports.

4. Collaborate with cultural resource management specialists, such as archaeologists, engineers, architects, curators, historic preservationists, project managers, and planners, among others, through an understanding of each discipline's unique role in CRM.

5. Explain the significance of CRM to public audiences, and understand the connection of interpretation and public education to cultural resource management. 

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