Community Work

As a public historian, my work is inherently community based. I’ve been lucky to build partnerships with colleagues at Coastal Carolina University, the local museum, and a variety of community stakeholders.

Recent Projects

• Traditional Cultural and Ecological Trail exhibition at the Waccamaw Indian People Tribal Grounds, 2024
• Waccamaw Indian People: Past, Present, Future, 2021, Project Documents
• Waccamaw Indian People: Past, Present, Future website
• Printing the Past: SC in 3D, 2019, Project Documents
• Printing the Past: SC in 3D, 2019, Website
• Charles Joyner Reading Room, 2017

Awards and Grants

External

2024   
Horry County Historic Preservation Award; Horry County Historical Commission. For efforts with the Waccamaw Indian People to preserve Horry County History.

2023   
SC Humanities Mini-Grant for Traditional Ecological Trail Project at Waccamaw Indian People Tribal Grounds. $4,995.

CCU Sustainability Grant, for Environmental and Cultural Heritage project with Dr. Carolyn Dillian and the Waccamaw Indian People ($10,000)

CCU AIDC DEI Travel Grant, for National Council on Public History ($900)

2022   
↠ Society for American Archaeology – National Award of Outstanding Public Archaeology Project, for Waccamaw Indian People: Past, Present, Future.

↠ G. Wesley Johnson Award from the National Council on Public History – Honorable Mention for Katie Clary and Carolyn Dillian. “Printing the Past: Building Accessibility and Engagement Through 3D Technologies.” The Public Historian, vol. 43, no. 2, May 2021.

2021   
↠ Society for American Archaeology – National Award for Collections-Based Education and Research, for Printing the Past: SC in 3D

2020   
↠Publication of the Year for Dillian, Carolyn and Katie Clary. “Artifacts and Accessibility: 3D Technologies for Museum Exhibits.”South Carolina Antiquities, 2020. From the Archaeological Society for South Carolina. 

↠ Leadership in History Award of Excellence, American Association for State and Local History, for Printing the Past: SC in 3D.

↠ History in Progress Award, given to less than 5% of awardees; American Association for Stateand Local History, for Printing the Past: SC in 3D.

2019   
↠ Silver Award for Exhibits under $10,000 for Printing the Past: SC in 3D, Southeastern Museums Conference

Internal

2024    Office of the Provost: Faculty Innovation and Excellence Awards for Coastal Carolina University, Public Engagement, Outreach, and Service.

2023    Office of the Provost: Faculty Innovation and Excellence Awards for Coastal Carolina University, International Collaborations in Research

2021   
↠ College of Humanities and Fine Arts Distinguished Scholarly or Creative Endeavors.

↠ Office of the Provost: Faculty Innovation and Excellence Awards for Coastal Carolina University, Public Engagement, Outreach, and Service.

↠ Nominated, Faculty Innovation and Excellence Awards for Coastal Carolina University, Inclusive Pedagogy Award.

Related Publications

In production. Dillian, Carolyn D., Katie Stringer Clary, and Charles A. Bello. Collaborative and Community Archaeology. University of Florida Press, TBA.

In production. Dillian, Carolyn D., Katie Stringer Clary, Harold Hatcher, and Cheryl Cail. “Collaboration With Non-federally Recognized Tribes: The Waccamaw Indian People Exhibit At The Horry County Museum, South Carolina.” in Collaborative and Community Archaeology. (peer-reviewed)

Under Review. Clary, Katie, Carolyn Dillian, Harold Hatcher, and Cheryl Cail. “Death, Bodies, Burial, and the Law: The Plight of Non-Federally-Recognized Indigenous Groups in the United States.” in Displays of Grief and Commemoration in our Communities, ed. Robyn Lacy and Robert Spinelli. Accepted by Berghan Books Publishers. (peer-reviewed)

Under Review. Clary, Katie, Carolyn Dillian, Harold Hatcher, and Cheryl Cail.”Decolonizing Federal Policies for Native American Death Ways.” In Decolonizing Death Studies, edited by Panagiotis Pentaris, Stacey Pitsilldes, and Hajar Ghorbanu. Routledge, London: Taylor and Francis, TBD. (peer-reviewed)

↠ Dillian, Carolyn, Katie Clary, Jesse Morgan, Harold Hatcher, and Cheryl Cail. “Collaboration and Co-Creation in the Exhibit Waccamaw Indian People: Past, Present, Future.” South Carolina Antiquities, 2022. 6,350 words.

↠ Clary, Katie, Carolyn Dillian, and Jesse Morgan. “Community Collaborations in Exhibition Development.” History News, Vol. 9, No. 1, Autumn 2021, 19-23.

↠ Clary, Katie, and Carolyn Dillian. “Printing the Past: Building Accessibility and Engagement Through 3D Technologies.” The Public Historian, vol. 43, no. 2, May 2021, 41-62. (Honorable Mention from the National Council on Public History, G. Wesley Johnson Award for publications in 2021.)

↠ Clary Katie, and Carolyn Dillian. “3D Technologies for Exhibits and Programs.” Technical Leaflet for American Association for State and Local History. History News, Vol. 7, No. 2, Spring 2020: 1-8. 

↠ Dillian, Carolyn and Katie Clary. “Artifacts and Accessibility: 3D Technologies for Museum Exhibits.” South Carolina Antiquities, 2020: 23-32.  *Award-winning article – Article of the Year, Association for South Carolina Archaeology 

↠ Dillian, Carolyn and Katie Clary. “Archaeological Museum Exhibits and Accessibility for the Sensory and Visually Impaired.” Horizon and Tradition, Southeastern Archaeological Conference. Vol. 62, No. 1, April 2020. https://www.southeasternarchaeology.org/wp-content/uploads/SEAC-Newsletter-Spring-2020-final.pdf  

Clary, Katie and Carolyn Dillian, “Please Touch: 3D Technologies for Accessibility in Museums,”  Nursing Clio peer-reviewed blog, November 2019. https://nursingclio.org/2020/01/29/please-touch-3d-technologies-for-accessibility-in-museums/  

Clary, Katie. “Teaching Public History in Core Courses,” National Council on Public History professional blog, History@Work, Summer 2019. 

Clary, Katie. “St. Michan Mummies,” on MummyStories.com edited by Dr. Angela Stienne; https://www.mummystories.com/single-post/KatieStringerClary2019-2, March 6, 2019.

Clary, Katie. “Neskhons,” on MummyStories.com edited by Dr. Angela Stienne; https://www.mummystories.com/single-post/KatieStringerClary, November 12, 2018.

Clary, Katie. “Mummies of Phillippi,” on MummyStories.com edited by Dr. Angela Stienne; https://www.mummystories.com/single-post/KatieStringerClary2019, January 29, 2019.

↠ Stringer Clary, Katie. “Public Access to History (and Pre-History) Through Archaeology” in EXARC International Journal, 2018/3, August 2018.

Stringer, Katie. “Primary Sources, Artifacts, and Students with Special Needs.”  Teaching with Primary Sources, Middle Tennessee State University (Fall 2013).