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HST 401/501—Topics in American History: Field Methods in Community History Research
Special Session 13: July 9-August 4, 2007
Instructor: Christine L. Ridarsky
About the Instructor
Christine L. Ridarsky is a Ph.D. candidate in American History at the University of Rochester. She is writing her Ph.D. dissertation on rural life and community in Hector, New York, in the period roughly between 1870 and 1940. She has been historian for the Finger Lakes National Forest Farmstead Archaeology & History Project since 2001 and has also worked as an archaeological field assistant on the project. She is an experienced public historian who has worked as an archivist, oral history coordinator, grant writer, and consultant for several organizations in the Rochester and Finger Lakes regions of New York. She has bachelor’s degrees in Journalism & Mass Communication and Political Science (Kent State, 1993) and a master’s degree in American History (SUNY Brockport, 2003). She worked as a newspaper journalist for eight years before pursuing her current career in history.
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