Tag Archives: Published Works

20 years later, I finally understand what college media leadership taught me

Two decades after editing his university newspaper, Jeff Guin looks back on the newsroom as an early laboratory for experimentation, leadership, criticism, and institutional memory. Long before social media gave those instincts a digital form, the experience taught him to study what came before, preserve what mattered, challenge inherited practices, and give a new generation room to make the institution its own. The piece connects journalism training directly to his later approach to digital work.

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Master’s Thesis: “Timbertown Folk Traditions”

In 2002, my Master’s Thesis from the Northwestern State University Folklife and Southern Culture program was published in the Louisiana Folklife Journal and presented at the Louisiana Folklore Society Conference. Published in Louisiana Folklife Journal: Vol. XX., 1996 55 pages, 0 Photographs, $10.00 Abney, Lisa.…

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CRM Journal Review: Key Ingredients Exhibit

This review examines Key Ingredients: America By Food, a Smithsonian traveling exhibition that uses everyday foodways to explore American history, identity, work, migration, family, and community. Designed to travel to smaller communities through the Museum on Main Street program, the exhibition demonstrates how an ordinary and universally recognizable subject can open much larger cultural conversations. Food becomes the interpretive doorway through which visitors encounter both shared national stories and distinctly local experiences.

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Fostering community understanding amid inconvenient archaeology

A case study in public archaeology and community communication from Natchitoches, Louisiana, where excavation beneath a historic brick street created real disruption for residents and businesses. The Beneath the Bricks effort treated public explanation and dialogue as part of the archaeological process itself, using events, local media, and the web to build understanding while the work was underway.

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NCPTT Notes Issue 48: Introducing Preservation Today

This publication features the usual training and research articles. A few were written by a promising student journalist named Kevin Clarkston. I was lucky enough to teach Kevin in a Feature Writing class at Northwestern and then have him as a practicum student at NCPTT. One of his articles features the new Preservation Today social media experiment I've been working on.

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