Amy Kostine

Amy Kostine

Programs Manager at the Center for Historic Preservation

amy.kostine@mtsu.edu

Amy M. Kostine is the Programs Manager at the Center for Historic Preservation. In this role, she administers the Center’s National Historic Trails Program, managing a variety of federally and other externally funded projects aimed at the preservation and interpretation of the nation’s national historic trails. Those projects include National Register of Historic Places nominations, architectural surveys and assessments, historic structure reports, preservation plans, exhibits, brochures, cultural landscape inventories, and interpretive plans. In addition, she collaborates and supports staff on other federal programs and projects.


Kostine received her A.S. in photography from Onondaga Community College, her B.A. in history from Le Moyne College, and her M.A. in history with an emphasis in public history and historic preservation from Middle Tennessee State University, completing her thesis on the sites, stories, and interpretation of the Trail of Tears in East Tennessee. She is the recipient of a Tennessee Historical Commission Certificate of Merit and a Tennessee Native American Eagle Award for her work on Trail of Tears National Historic Trail wayside exhibits at David Crockett State Park and the Tennessee Trail of Tears brochure, respectively. While she specializes in the Cherokee Trail of Tears, her research interests also include Native history and culture and the history of photography.

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