Keith Hebert is Associate Professor of History and Public History Program Officer at Auburn University. Previously, Hebert served as the state historian for the Georgia Historic Preservation Office. Hebert's research focuses on the history of the American South. He has published three peer-reviewed monographs including Cornerstone of the Confederacy: Alexander Stephens and the Speech that Defined the Lost Cause (2021). In 2019, Hebert completed an administrative history of Horseshoe Bend National Military Park. Hebert has served as principal investigator on numerous National Park Service and Organization of American Historians projects including a regional historic resource study of post emancipation Black schools in the South, a study of Black communities in the Cumberland Gap Region, and an examination of USCT soldiers from the Kingsley Plantation near Jacksonville, Florida. Hebert has also successfully listed several sites on the National Register of Historic Places including two national significant examples of visionary art environments (Pasaquan and Paradise Garden). He also co-authored Georgia's Rosenwald Schools multiple property nomination. Currently, Hebert is working in Selma, Alabama, to document, preserve, and interpret the historic sites associated with Bloody Sunday.
