"What are you teaching in Spring 2023?" with AMCS Postdoctoral Fellow Elizabeth Eikmann

L98 314M Topics in St. Louis: Artifact StL

Want to learn about St. Louis history and culture? Want to meet curators, park rangers, archivists (and more!) who practice St. Louis history in their jobs every day? Want to visit some really interesting sites? If you answered yes…then this course is for you!

Artifact STL will explore the history, culture, and people of St. Louis using the city's visual, material, and structural artifacts as our primary lens of study. Through critical, interdisciplinary examination of artifacts such as images, objects, buildings, and landscapes, we will seek to understand the persistence of inequity in our region, be it on the basis of race, class, gender, or sexuality. Together, we will forge connections between the visual, material, and structural artifacts of the past to debates that persist today.

Dr. Eikmann is an expert in St. Louis history, women’s history, and the history of photography. She is a teacher, scholar, and public historian with experience working with museums, public libraries, universities, and the local tourism industry. She currently serves as a Postdoctoral Fellow at Washington University in St. Louis where she is working on her book project.