Address: 554 Griffin Hall
Phone: 337-482-6900
Email:
carriker@louisiana.edu
Robert Carriker, Associate Professor and Director of Public History Program (Ph.D. Arizona State University, 1996). Carriker’s teaching and research focus on Public History, the History of the American West, 20th Century U.S. History, and Community History. He is a native of the state of Washington. He graduated with a B.A. in History from Gonzaga University in Spokane Washington and relocated to Arizona to pursue a M.A. degree in United States History and Public History with a certificate in Historic Preservation and then a Ph.D. in U.S. History and Public History. Recently, he has worked with the following groups:
• Lafayette Historic Preservation Commission
• Consultant to The Alexander Mouton House and Lafayette Museum
• Consultant to The Mississippi Valley Museum at Acadian Village
• Committee member for the Louisiana Purchase Bicentennial Celebration
• Committee for the Council on the Development of French in Louisiana
• Consultant to The Acadian Museum in Erath, Louisiana
• Board of Directors for The Louisiana State Prison Museum at Angola
• Assistant Historian for The National Endowment for the Humanities’ summer seminar on Lewis and Clark held in Spokane, Washington
• Historian/Researcher for National Park Service’s Tonto National Monument
• Cultural Resource Management Intern with United States Forest Service’s Region IX in Portland, Oregon
Carriker is also the director of the History and Geography Department’s History On the Move program—a summer school program combining classroom learning with hands on experiences through travel. It is a vital method for studying comparative Cultural/Heritage Tourism experiences throughout the country. Becoming cultural/heritage tourists for three weeks, the class travels through Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, Arizona, and Nevada where they visit the historic sites, museums, National Parks, National Monuments, and rich cultural offerings of the American Southwest.