{"id":154773,"date":"2020-06-01T15:13:23","date_gmt":"2020-06-01T19:13:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/?p=154773"},"modified":"2020-06-01T16:23:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-01T20:23:00","slug":"hannas-journal-article-wins-public-memory-award-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/2020\/06\/01\/hannas-journal-article-wins-public-memory-award-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Hanna\u2019s Journal Article Wins \u2018Public Memory\u2019 Award"},"content":{"rendered":"
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UMW Professor of Geography Steve Hanna, seen here during a 2018 interview for \u2018With Good Reason\u2019 radio, was the lead author on a journal article that won the prestigious Zumkehr Prize for Scholarship in Public Memory. Hanna\u2019s research involves \u2018narrative mapping\u2019 applied at Southern plantation museums to determine how the South tells its story about slavery. Photo by Karen Pearlman.<\/p><\/div>\n

As visitors to Southern plantation homes know, the information they receive depends on docents and the questions they\u2019re asked, and by where on the site the group is congregated. In the parlor, for instance, tour-takers might hear about the residents\u2019 family history and the placement of furniture. Outside, they will likely learn more about crops and, perhaps, the lives of enslaved people who labored in the fields.<\/p>\n

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The process of capturing and interpreting these variations is called \u201cnarrative mapping,\u201d said UMW Geography Professor Stephen Hanna, whose research with colleagues at other universities aims to determine \u2013 and eventually change \u2013 how the South tells its story of slavery.<\/p>\n

Hanna and his co-researchers applied the process to 170 tours at 15 different plantation museums. The results from two of those antebellum sites, Louisiana\u2019s Laura Plantation and Virginia\u2019s Berkeley Plantation, formed an\u00a0article<\/a>, published in the\u00a0Journal of Heritage Tourism\u00a0<\/em>that won the prestigious Zumkehr Prize for Scholarship in Public Memory.<\/p>\n

The honor would not have been possible, Hanna said, without years\u2019 worth of help from Mary Washington students.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey contributed their ideas, hard work and energy to the project\u201d from 2014 to 2017, said Hanna, who served as the article\u2019s lead author and who, as the team\u2019s only cartographer, designed the method for graphically presenting the results. \u201cMy work with the students has become my favorite memories of my time at UMW.\u201d Read more.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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