bio

E. C. Thompson is currently a Texts & Technology PhD student at the University of Central Florida. He holds an MA in public history from Georgia Southern University. His bachelor’s degree in history is also from UCF and included a minor in Florida studies.

His thesis work at Georgia Southern examined the legacy of the Lost Cause of the Confederacy in public art in Augusta, Georgia. Of particular note is his argument for the use of photogrammetry and 3-d models of monuments as an avenue to facilitate monument removal. View the entire AugustaMonuments project here.

E. C. Thompson is originally from Cocoa Beach, Florida.

Writing & Projects

The Public Historian
“Review of the Owens-Thomas House & Slave Quarters”
August 2023 edition

The Enola Gay Controversy: 1945-1995
Reacting to the Past Game
Alison Scardino Belzer & Alena Pirok with Zach Graham, Breanna Lively, and E. C. Thompson
2023

AugustaMonuments.com
Web project dedicated to examining local monuments
March 2023-ongoing

Exhibits

“Augusta Monuments” at the Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, GA, Spring 2023

“Manufacturing Music: 140 Years of Gretsch Legacy” at the Statesboro Convention and Visitors Bureau, Statesboro, GA, 2022-2023

Conferences

2025 Florida Historical Society Annual Meeting & Symposium
“Roundtable on Complicated Memory at Home and Abroad”
Orlando, FL
October 2025

2025 Florida Historical Society Annual Meeting & Symposium
“Roundtable on Public History and Community Partnerships”
Orlando, FL
October 2025

2025 Florida Historical Society Public History Forum
“RICHES Digital Archiving Project Case Study: The Roots of Entrepreneurship in the Parramore Community”
Orlando, FL
May 2025

2024 Florida Historical Society Annual Meeting & Symposium
“Learning What Historians Do by Telling the Stories of Florida’s World War II Veterans”
Orlando, FL
October 2024

NCPH2023
Poster Session – Lost Cause in Augusta
Atlanta, GA
April 2023

ORGANIZATIONS

NCPH
Phi Alpha Theta
Phi Kappa Phi