EMMA WALCOTT-WILSON

Research Fellow

Emma Walcott-Wilson has a PhD in Geography from the University of Tennessee. She started her research on heritage tourism during her MA program at the University of Missouri and continued to focus on tour guide experiences and narrative formation in her recently completed doctoral dissertation entitled: Tour guides as place-makers: Emotional labor, plantation aesthetics, and interpretations of slavery in South Carolina. During her time as a research assistant and RESET fellow, she has conducted extensive qualitative fieldwork at historic house museums and tourist plantations. Emma worked as a museum professional for five years before starting her doctorate and is especially enthusiastic about building connections between people who work at historic sites and museums and those who conduct research in the area of public history and interpretation. 

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Contact: ewalcot1@vols.utk.edu

Selected Publications