About Wallace…
John Wallace is a Tennessee-based public historian and museum professional who specializes in the stewardship of material culture tied to death, violence, and dispossession in the American South, with a focus on artisan-led undertaking and the funerary industry in Southern Appalachia.
Wallace earned his bachelor’s degree in history from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and is currently pursuing a master’s degree in history, with a concentration in public history and museum management. He has over three years of experience in museums, historic site interpretation, and collections, with particular strengths in collections management policy, historic site interpretation, and cemetery preservation planning.
Wallace will serve as an Assistant Registrar for the Alabama Department of Archives and History and teach Introduction to Historic Preservation (IARC 3500) as a remote Adjunct Professor for the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.
