Jamie Ferguson is the Senior Historian in the Montgomery Parks Cultural Resources Stewardship Section. She has worked with M-NCPPC since 2008 and among her current responsibilities is developing interpretive signage and managing cemeteries on county park land. She recently authored Sharp Flashes of Lightning Come from Black Clouds: The Life of Josiah Henson. She is completing a doctoral degree in the history of American civilization at the University of Delaware. Her dissertation is entitled, “Asylum for Jim Crow: African American Mental Hospitals in the Upper South, 1865-1965.” She holds a Master’s Degree in history from James Madison University and a Bachelor’s Degree in history from Radford University. Before her employment at Montgomery Parks, Jamie was the archaeological lab curator for a private cultural resources management firm and has worked in various capacities at several museums and archives, including the Center for Historic Architecture and Design, Delaware Historical Society, Frontier Culture Museum of Virginia, Historic St. Mary’s City, Monticello, Montpelier, and Virginia’s Explore Park.
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