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Dr. Susan Asbury
Assistant Professor
Department of History and Political Science
Phone: 478-471-2982
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| Office Hours: | Fall 2025: In-person office hours: Mondays 10:45 a.m. 鈥 12:15 p.m.; Wednesdays 10:45 a.m. 鈥 12:00 p.m. Virtual office hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays 12:30 p.m. -- 2:30 p.m. (link in class syllabus) By appoinment as well |
| Biography: | Susan Asbury holds a Ph.D. in American Studies from The Pennsylvania State University at Harrisburg. She completed a B.A. in History at Berry College and an M.A. in Public History at the University of South Carolina. For nearly ten years, Asbury worked in the museum field as a curator, museum educator, and administrator. Her research interests are in material culture, public history, U.S. history, consumerism, the intersections of popular culture and folklore studies, and social history. She has written articles, book chapters, blogs, and encyclopedia entries on her research. Asbury discovered her interest in the material culture of play while working as associate curator at The Strong National Museum of Play in Rochester, New York, and is currently working on her book, Family Game Night: Board Games, Play, Memory, and Culture in Victorian America, that focuses on the early decades of the American board game industry. The book will be published in 2026. I am delighted to be at MGA! |
| Courses: | HIST 2111 -- US History to 1865 HIST 2112 -- US History 1865-present HIST 2010 -- Foundations in Public History HIST 3010 -- Introduction to Public History HIST 3011 -- Museum Studies in Practice HIST 3012 -- American Architecture and Historic Preservation HIST 4100 -- Material Culture Studies HIST 4110 -- Historic Site Interpretation |
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| Education: | Ph.D., American Studies, Penn State University, Harrisburg M.A. Public History, University of South Carolina McKissick Museum Certificate in Museum Management, University of South Carolina B.A., History, Berry College |
| Awards and Honors: | Georgia College and State University 鈥淭hank-a-teacher鈥 award recipient, fall 2021 G. Rollie Adams Research Fellowship and Mary Valentine and Andrew Cosman Research Fellowships, The Strong, summer 2017 Penn State Harrisburg American Studies Dissertation Research Travel Fund recipient, summer 2017 Student Life Division Award, 鈥淧ositively Restless,鈥 Elizabethtown College, 2015-2016 Emerging Scholars Mentor, Elizabethtown College, 2015 Carole Isaac Nexus Award for the Student Development Learning Communities, Student Life Division Award, Elizabethtown College, 2011-2012 National Council on Public History (NCPH) Student Project Award, 2000 |
| Publications: | Family Game Night: Board Games, Play, Memory, and Culture in Victorian America. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, Spring 2026. |
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