Student Spotlight: Austin Herrera
Written by Megan Melone
Photography submitted by Austin Herrera
Austin Herrera is a junior majoring in secondary history education. Austin manages McKendree’s archives, the collection of the university’s historical documents, photographs and artifacts. I interviewed Austin on his work in the archives and his experience as a McKendree student:
Where are you from?
HERRERA: I’m from Belleville, Illinois.
You are a history ed. major. Why’d you choose that?
HERRERA: I was getting my associate in arts at SWIC (Southwestern Illinois College), and I had a history professor named Raymond Webb, and I was just engrossed in his teaching style. He told history like a story, which was impactful because usually people do not have much interest in history, but in his classroom everybody...