Beyond Coursework | Maddie Mott

 

Source: Beyond Coursework: Maddie Mott – KPSU

In this episode of Beyond Footnotes we interview Maddie Mott, a PSU history undergraduate and development coordinator at the Clackamas County Historical Society. This is Maddie’s second time on the show—in winter quarter we interviewed her and her colleague Corinne Rupp their work at the Clackamas County Historical Society. Recently Maddie had an article published in the journal Willamette Valley Voices, titled “The 1830-1833 Disease Epidemic of Oregon: A Closer Look” and was awarded the prize of Best Undergraduate Paper. In this episode she discusses her research for the article, which included interdisciplinary work of history and medicine,  her experience with professionally publishing an article, and her process of applying to and deciding on graduate school.

Maddie Mott is a senior at Portland State University and is bound for Brown University this fall, where she will be the Digital Media Fellow in their Public Humanities Fellow. She works as the Development Coordinator at the Clackamas County Historical Society. You can read her article in the latest issue of Willamette Valley Voices.

Beyond Footnotes
Beyond Footnotes is a history-themed podcast on local KPSU, sponsored by Portland State University’s Department of History, and run by history graduate students, Lyndsay Smith, Evan Smiley and Jeffrey Stone. Beyond Footnotes features interviews with the talented faculty and students of PSU, providing a forum for local historians to share their work with each other and the community. The show was co-created and formerly hosted by Ryan Wisnor and Joshua Justice of Dive Audio and originally launched on October 9, 2015.