PhD Student Bios
Savannah Chastain Cravey
Savannah Chastain Cravey
U.S. History: African American history, Cemetery and Death Studies, Digital history
Savannah Chastain Cravey is a first-year Ph.D. student in History at George Mason University. Cravey earned her Master's degree in History from Georgia Southern University, where she worked at the Georgia Southern Museum.
Cravey has spent the past 5 years working in education between student teaching, museum work, and as a former school teacher. Her plan is to continue to use education to push historical scholarship into school systems, museum settings, and other avenues. Her focus is on African American enslavement history by looking at how cemeteries, schools, homes, churches, and places of labor map out communities that promote freedom and autonomy.
Selected Publications
Fort Douglas Archaeology Walking Tour. The Public Historian 1 August 2024; 46 (3): 95–99. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/tph.2024.46.3.95
Education
Master's of History, concentration in Public History, Georgia Southern University, 2024.
Bachelor of Arts in History, University of North Georgia, 2021.
Recent Presentations
“Researching Local History: Emerging Freedom-Mapping African American History in Bulloch County," Bulloch County Historical Society, May 2024.
“Pop-Up: Stories from Beyond the Grave: The Enslavement History of Bulloch County,” National Council on Public History, Salt Lake City, UT, April 12, 2024.
Panel Organizer and Panelist, “Community and Religion in Georgia: Understanding African American, Jewish, and Queer Communities,” Georgia Association of Historians, Kennesaw, GA, February 17, 2024.
Fossil Seminar, Georgia Southern Museum, Sugarmill Elementary, October 28, 2022.
Around the World, Varsity Tutors, online presentation, 2022.
Inventions That Changed the World, Varsity Tutors, online presentation, 2022.
In the Media
Grice Connect, Emerging Freedom: Mapping African American history in Bulloch County, May 26, 2024.