Grad students selected as Visiting History Scholars, Mount Desert Islander reports
Mount Desert Islander reported two University of Maine graduate students, Brittany Goetting and Darcy Stevens, have been selected as 2019 Visiting History Scholars by the Mount Desert Island Historical Society. Goetting and Stevens will help the society prepare for the bicentennial of Maine’s statehood by researching and writing articles for the 2020 issue of the society’s annual magazine, Chebacco, the article states. Goetting is a Ph.D candidate and adjunct instructor at UMaine and Husson University, and researches the community and identities formed by Baptists in Maine and the Canadian Maritimes in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Stevens is a doctoral student and teaching assistant, and studies the daily lives of colonists in the years surrounding the American Revolution, including how they navigated the social landscape, according to the article. “Our partnership with the University of Maine connects us with young historians as they forge their careers,” said Tim Garrity, executive director of the society. “We are happy to give them a place to practice their profession and look forward to learning all we can from them while they are with us.”