Katie Blount Receives 2025 AASLH Individual Lifetime Achievement Award
The American Association for State and Local History (AASLH) has announced that Mississippi Department of Archives and History director Katie Blount is the recipient of a 2025 AASLH Individual Lifetime Achievement Award.
Blount has served as director of MDAH since 2011. Under her leadership, the agency has established the nationally recognized Two Mississippi Museums—the Museum of Mississippi History and the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum—strengthened relations with tribal partners through repatriation, and broken ground on the Vicksburg Civil War Visitor Center.
The AASLH awards program was initiated in 1945 to establish and encourage standards of excellence in the collection, preservation, and interpretation of state and local history throughout the United States.