Mark Tebeau
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Phone: 480-965-8595
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975 S. Myrtle Ave. PO Box 874302 Room 4502--SHPRS--Arizona State University Tempe, AZ 85287-4302
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Mail code: 4302Campus: Tempe
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An urban, public, and digital historian, Mark Tebeau has directed more than two dozen digital humanities, oral history, and public history projects. Along with co-editors Serge Noiret and Gerben Zaagsma, he recently authored A Handbook of Digital Public History (De Gruyter Oldenbourg.) In Fall 2022, Tebeau served as the first "Public Historian in Residence" at the Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C2DH) at the University of Luxembourg.
In March 2020, Tebeau co-created and co-directs A Journal of the Plague Year: An Archive of Covid-19, an international curatorial consortium that is building a crowdsourced digital archive documenting the pandemic. With attention to silences evident in traditional archives, JOTPY is connecting and linking data drawn from around the United States and the world into an archive that will help present and future researchers understand this tenuous moment.
Tebeau leads the development of Curatescape a framework for mobile publishing that seeks to make open-source and/or low-cost hosted mobile tools available to scholars and curators. With funding from the NEH Office of Digital Humanities, Curatescape is being used by more than 20 cultural organizations, universities, and heritage preservation organizations to curate landscapes and museums. Projects include Salt River Stories, Cleveland Historical (which Tebeau co-directs), Spokane Historical, Baltimore Heritage, New Orleans Historical, Explore Kentucky, and Connecticut Communities.
Prior to joining Arizona State University in 2013, Tebeau founded and directed the Center for Public History + Digital Humanities at Cleveland State University. Tebeau and the center collected more than 1200 oral histories that explore the history of the Northeast Ohio region.
As an urban historian, Tebeau’s first book, "Eating Smoke: Fire in Urban America, 1800-1950" (Johns Hopkins, 2003) examined how urban residents physical and metaphorically constructed American cities in response to the risk of fire. He is now completing a book that explores the history of public gardens, monuments, and public art through the lens of the Cleveland Cultural Gardens.
He can be found on twitter @urbanhumanist.
- Ph.D. Carnegie Mellon University
- M.A. Carnegie Mellon University
- A.B. University of Chicago
Tebeau's research explores the changing historical construction of cities, landscapes, and place. In particular, his work has focused on how gardens, urban monuments, and memory landscapes have been imagined in the United States and across the globe. As a public historian and digital humanists, Tebeau argues that scholars have become curators and that urbanists should reimagine the field to curate cities as living museums.
As an urban historian, Tebeau has explored how the danger of fire shaped cities from the 18th century into the 21st century. Eating Smoke contrasts how firefighters confronted fire danger through physical labor and a cult of heroism with fire underwriters transformation of fire hazard into abstract risks calculated and commodified on statistical ledgers. Eating Smoke shows how the modern city became less subject to sweeping center city fires, even as the particular risks of fire shifted toward the suburbs and beyond.
Tebeau's current research explores how diverse American communities created monumental conversations in cities, parks, and gardens across the United States. Using the Cleveland Cultural Gardens as a lens, Tebeau seeks to show that monuments took on lives that traversed national boundaries, creating global conversations about identity and culture. At the same time, local communities and neighborhoods deployed and redeployed
As a public historian, Tebeau has held fellowships and curated exhibits at the Smithsonian Institution, Mercer Museum-Bucks County Historical Society, and the Missouri Historical Society. Prior to beginning entering the professoriate, he held curatorial positions at the Cleveland History Center (Western Reserve Historical Society.) With over two decades of museum and community history experience, Tebeau's work has included developing exhibits, public programs, and educational activities, including walking tours to digital collecting projects, and interpretative projects with public arts agencies.
As a digital historian, Tebeau developed the place-based mobile application Cleveland Historical, which became the prototype for Curatescape, a framework for mobile curation that allows scholars, museums, and main street preservation advocacy groups to curate landscapes as living museums. He presently works with Arizona State University students to interpret the history of the greater Phoenix region through Salt River Stories.
As an oral historian Tebeau has both collected oral histories and developed digital tools for evaluating oral histories, including SocialScribe. Tebeau received oral history training at the Rural Folklife Center at Kenyon College under the direction of the Library of Congress's American Folklife Center. Building on his work documenting industrial workers in Cleveland and then the history of the Cleveland Cultural Gardens, in partnership with Cleveland NPR affiliate WCPN, Tebeau initiated and developed the Cleveland Regional Oral History Collection, now a digital archive with more than 1200 interviews at Cleveland State University, which is also available through the Cleveland Voices Podcast.
Understanding how senses of place and space can be expressed, understood, and imagined in collaboration with public audiences remains a vexing problem for urban (and rural) communities across the globe. Storytelling and community building around history remain powerful tools in connecting individuals to one another and their environments. More critically, engaging publics in this process, training them to be stewards of place and storytellers, stands at the heart of both rebuilding civil society and creating a more vibrant, diverse, and tolerant citizenry.
- Mark Tebeau. Salt River Stories. (2014).
- Mark Tebeau, Mark Souther. Cleveland Historical. (2014).
- Mark Tebeau. Curating Landscape in the Mobile Age,. White Paper for NEH (see Mobile Historical grant) (2013).
- Mark Tebeau. Listening to the City: Oral History & Place in the Digital Era. Oral History Review (2013).
- Mark Tebeau. Salt River Stories. (2013).
- Mark Tebeau, Mark Souther. Cleveland Historical. (2013).
- Finn,Edward Frederick*, Cavalier,Darlene Faith, Gano,Steve, Guston,David H, Halpern,Megan K., Montoya,Mitzi, Ostman,Rae Ellen Marie, Simeone,Michael Paul, Tebeau,Mark Thomas, Wylie,Ruth. Increasing Learning and Efficacy about Emerging Technologies through Transmedia Engagement by the Public in Science-in-Society Activities. NSF-EHR-DRL(8/1/2015 - 7/31/2019).
- Hirt,Paul Wayne*, Tebeau,Mark Thomas. Nature History and Culture at the Nation's Edge. (2/20/2015 - 6/30/2015).
- Hirt,Paul Wayne*, Simeone,Michael Paul, Tebeau,Mark Thomas. Nature History and Culture at the Nation's Edge. NEH(8/1/2014 - 8/31/2015).
- Tebeau,Mark Thomas*, Ferguson,Cody Eugene. Digital Interpretation of Arizona Falls. SRP-SALT RIVER PROJECT(3/17/2014 - 6/30/2014).
- Reyes,Angelita*, Reyes,Angelita*, Barton,Craig Evan, Gilfillan,Daniel, Sadowski-Smith,Claudia, Tebeau,Mark Thomas. CHIF: Interdisciplinary High-Impact Place Studies Project : Patrick Robert Parker Sydnor Historic Site Mecklenburg County VA (ASUF 30005923). ASU FDN(1/1/2014 - 12/31/2015).
- Tebeau,Mark Thomas*. CHIF: Digital Oral History (ASUF 30005923). ASU FDN(1/1/2014 - 12/31/2015).
- Tebeau,Mark Thomas*. Mobile Museum Initative. NEH(6/1/2013 - 8/31/2015).
Courses
2025 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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HST 792 | Research |
HST 799 | Dissertation |
HST 599 | Thesis |
HST 591 | Seminar |
HST 593 | Applied Project |
WWS 569 | Memory and Monuments |
2024 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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HST 792 | Research |
HST 799 | Dissertation |
HST 599 | Thesis |
HST 502 | Public History Methodology |
HST 502 | Public History Methodology |
HST 585 | Professional Experience |
HST 585 | Professional Experience |
HST 585 | Professional Experience |
HST 585 | Professional Experience |
2024 Summer
Course Number | Course Title |
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HST 580 | Practicum |
HST 580 | Practicum |
HST 580 | Practicum |
2024 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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HST 580 | Practicum |
HST 580 | Practicum |
HST 580 | Practicum |
HST 580 | Practicum |
HST 792 | Research |
HST 799 | Dissertation |
HST 599 | Thesis |
HST 485 | History in the Wild |
HST 502 | Public History Methodology |
HST 593 | Applied Project |
HST 580 | Practicum |
2023 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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HST 591 | Seminar |
HST 580 | Practicum |
HST 580 | Practicum |
HST 580 | Practicum |
HST 792 | Research |
HST 799 | Dissertation |
HST 599 | Thesis |
HST 492 | Honors Directed Study |
WWS 569 | Memory and Monuments |
HST 580 | Practicum |
2023 Summer
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HST 580 | Practicum |
HST 580 | Practicum |
HST 580 | Practicum |
2023 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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HST 580 | Practicum |
HST 580 | Practicum |
HST 580 | Practicum |
HST 580 | Practicum |
HST 792 | Research |
HST 799 | Dissertation |
HST 599 | Thesis |
HST 502 | Public History Methodology |
HST 591 | Seminar |
2022 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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HST 580 | Practicum |
HST 580 | Practicum |
HST 580 | Practicum |
HST 792 | Research |
HST 799 | Dissertation |
HST 599 | Thesis |
HST 502 | Public History Methodology |
WWS 569 | Memory and Monuments |
HST 580 | Practicum |
2022 Summer
Course Number | Course Title |
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HST 580 | Practicum |
HST 580 | Practicum |
HST 580 | Practicum |
2022 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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HST 792 | Research |
HST 799 | Dissertation |
HST 599 | Thesis |
HST 682 | Advcd Rsrch Skill |
2021 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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HST 580 | Practicum |
HST 580 | Practicum |
HST 485 | History in the Wild |
HST 580 | Practicum |
HST 792 | Research |
HST 799 | Dissertation |
HST 599 | Thesis |
HST 502 | Public History Methodology |
2021 Summer
Course Number | Course Title |
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HST 580 | Practicum |
HST 580 | Practicum |
HST 580 | Practicum |
WWS 563 | The Lived Experience of WWII |
WWS 563 | The Lived Experience of WWII |
WWS 563 | The Lived Experience of WWII |
2021 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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HST 580 | Practicum |
HST 580 | Practicum |
HST 580 | Practicum |
HST 580 | Practicum |
HST 792 | Research |
HST 799 | Dissertation |
HST 599 | Thesis |
HST 682 | Advcd Rsrch Skill |
HST 502 | Public History Methodology |
WWS 569 | Memory and Monuments |
2020 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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HST 580 | Practicum |
HST 580 | Practicum |
HST 580 | Practicum |
HST 792 | Research |
HST 799 | Dissertation |
HST 599 | Thesis |
HST 306 | Studies in US History |
HST 502 | Public History Methodology |
HST 494 | Special Topics |
2020 Summer
Course Number | Course Title |
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HST 580 | Practicum |
HST 580 | Practicum |
HST 580 | Practicum |
HST 591 | Seminar |
WWS 563 | The Lived Experience of WWII |
WWS 563 | The Lived Experience of WWII |
WWS 563 | The Lived Experience of WWII |
2020 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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HST 502 | Public History Methodology |
HST 580 | Practicum |
HST 580 | Practicum |
HST 580 | Practicum |
HST 580 | Practicum |
HST 306 | Studies in US History |
HST 792 | Research |
HST 799 | Dissertation |
HST 599 | Thesis |
HST 682 | Advcd Rsrch Skill |
2019 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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HST 591 | Seminar |
HST 485 | History in the Wild |
HST 494 | Special Topics |
HST 792 | Research |
HST 799 | Dissertation |
HST 599 | Thesis |
HST 790 | Reading and Conference |
HST 580 | Practicum |
HST 692 | Research |
HST 590 | Reading and Conference |
- Mark Tebeau. Workshop: Public History & Digital Humanities. American Historical Association Annual Conference (Dec 2014).
- Mark Tebeau, Clayton Hanson, Anna Harbine. Strategies and Techniques of Mobile Interpretation for Landscapes & Museums. National Association for Interpretation (Nov 2014).
- Mark Tebeau. Imagining the De-Industrial City though Post-Industrial Digital Tools. Concordia University: De-Industrialization and Its Aftermath (May 2014).
- Mark Tebeau. Ephemerality & Performance in Public History. National Council for Public History (Apr 2014).
- Mark Tebeau. Re-Imagining Curation in the Digital Age. Minnesota Digital Humanities Conference (May 2013).
- Mark Tebeau. Digital Tools and Skills for Public Historians. National Council on Public History (Apr 2013).
Oral History Review
University of Masschusetts Press
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Advisory Committee to the Board of Trustees on Education (2009 - 2013)