MIKE BUNN

Mike Bunn currently serves as Director of Historic Blakeley State Park in Spanish Fort, Alabama. Previously, he directed the Historic Chattahoochee Commission (a bi-state agency operating in southeastern Alabama and southwestern Georgia), and worked as a curator with the Columbus (Georgia) Museum and the Mississippi Department of Archives and History’s Museum of Mississippi. He has also worked with the Birmingham Historical Society and the Tuscaloosa County Preservation Society.

 

Mike obtained his undergraduate degree from Faulkner University, and earned master’s degrees in history and higher education administration from the University of Alabama. He also completed a graduate certificate in public history at the University of West Georgia. Bunn is author or co-author of several books on Gulf South history focusing on the colonial, early statehood, antebellum, and Civil War periods. He is the winner of the NSDAR Excellence in American History Award for Fourteenth Colony: The Forgotten Story of the Gulf South During the Revolutionary Era. He was recently announced as the recipient J.Y. Sanders Research Scholar Award by The Center for Southeast Louisiana Studies as Southeastern Louisiana University.

 

Mike is editor of Muscogiana, the journal of the Muscogee County (Georgia) Genealogical Society. He is also Chair of the Baldwin County Historic Development Commission, vice president of the Mobile Area Civil War Roundtable, the secretary of the Friends of Old Mobile, and a board member for the Bartram Trail Conference, the Friends of the Alabama Archives, and the Alabama Historical Association. He is a graduate of Leadership Baldwin and a certified interpretive guide with the National Association for Interpretation. 

 

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