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Rosemary
Crockett is an independent scholar and director of The Tuskegee
Airmen Wives Tell Their Stories Project, which documents the lives
and experiences of the wives of the U.S. military's first African-American
flying units: the 99th Fighter Squadron, the 332nd Fighter Group,
the 477th Bombardment Group and related units. Rosemary earned degrees
in English Literature, International Relations, American Literature,
and a Ph.D. in History of American Civilization. She has nearly
completed her three year tenure as OHMAR secretary.
Susan Douglass.
Oral History has been an integral part of Professor Douglass' research
and teaching since joining the History and Anthropology of Monmouth
University in the fall of 1995. She has conducted interviews for
Survivors of the Shoah-an Oral History Foundation dedicated to interviewing
Holocaust survivors. The highlight of her elective on the Holocaust
has been the eyewitness accounts of survivors. Her elective on The
Vietnam War includes an oral history component in which each student
interviews a Vietnam vet and integrates this material with their
research papers for this course. In the fall of 2002 she taught
the first oral history course to be offered at Monmouth University
using as her class project interviews of members of the Destroyer
Escort Sailors Association-Garden State Chapter. These interviews
are available onsite and online. Currently she has students conducting
interviews for the Fort Hanock/National Park Service (Gateway NRA,
Sandy Hook, New Jersey) oral history program. Working with the Curriculum
and Instruction Department at Monmouth University she developed
an oral history project for Partners in Learning (PAL) in which
education majors were paired with students in public schools in
Asbury Park and Long Branch to conduct interviews of community leaders
in their hometowns.
Jeff
Friedman is Assistant Professor in the dance department, Mason
Gross School of the Arts at the New Brunswick campus of Rutgers
University. Freidman is the founder and program director of LEGACY
Oral History Project, an organization that records the life-histories
of San Francisco Bay Area performing artists. Mr. Friedman has performed
his solo dance/text performance piece "Muscle Memory"
across the US. His essay "Fractious Action: Theoretical Framework
and Case Studies of Oral History-Based Performance" will be
published in Baylor University's upcoming Oral History Research
Handbook.
Joel
Gardner is the president of Gardner Associates, which specializes
in oral history projects for corporations and institutions. His
current clients include the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the
MacArthur Foundation, and the Union League of Philadelphia. He has
worked as an oral historian for thirty years, first in the UCLA
Oral History Program, then with the Louisisana State Archives, and
through Gardner Associates, with the Columbia Univesity and Getty
Center for Research in the Humanities.
Howard
Green is Research Director of the New Jersey Historical Commission,
and a former president of the Oral History Association. Howard's
most recent book, Words that Make New Jersey History is widely used
in high school and college courses in the state. His current project
is a history of the Delaware and Raritan Canal.
Shaun
Illingworth is Assistant Director of the Rutgers Oral History
Archives of World War II, Korea, Vietnam and the Cold War. Shaun
began working for the project as an undergraduate intern; his work
included a history honors project in which he edited and annotated
the WWII diary of a Rutgers alumnus. Shaun has been instrumental
in all aspects of the project: interviewing, reviewing, editing
and archiving. He has served as Webmaster for the project's highly
acclaimed website and, in five years time, has taken the site from
40 histories to the over 280 interviews currently posted. This semester,
Shaun will complete his Masters at the Rutgers School of Communications,
Information and Library Science.
Deborah
Kelly is a historic preservation consultant and a partner in
the consulting firm, Preservation Partners. Deborah recently completed
a two year, state-funded project, "The New Jersey Women's Heritage
Trail"--a state-wide survey of historic resources. Preservation
Partners is currently working on a publication about this project
entitled "Women's Place in New Jersey History" (forthcoming
in early 2005). Deborah earned her B.A. in political science from
Mount Holyoke College, and her M.S. in historic preservation from
the University of Pennyslvania.
Stuart
M. Lefkowitz earned his B.S. degree in biology and psychology
from The City College, C.U.N.Y. and a M.S.Ed. degree in college
student personnel administraion from Indiana University. Mr. Lefkowitz
has served several years on staff at New York University and the
City College before entering the business world, Then, as a result
of numerous visits to Colonial Williamsburg, he developed a love
for 18th century American history. As a resident of northwest NJ,
where iron mining provided this country with iron from Colonial
times until the 1970s, Stuart found there there was little documentation
about the people associated with the mining industry. Currently,
Mr. Lefkowitz is pursuing a masters in history.
Tim
Raphael is Assistant Professor of Visual and Performing Arts
at Rutgers University, Newark Campus. Mr. Raphael has taught theater,
performance and American studies at Wesleyan University, Dartmouth
College, Northwestern University, Ursinus College and the Universidad
Aberta in Lisbon, Portugal. He is currently working with students
to collect and adapt oral histories of the the immigrant experience
in Newark, to develop into a performance project. Entitled Something
to Declare, the first performance is scheduled for April 2004.
Mary
T. Rasa is the museum curator for the National Park Service's
Sandy Hook Unit of Gateway National Recreation Area, located at
Fort Hancock, New Jersey. Ms. Rasa established an internship with
Monmouth University, Rutgers University and Brookdale Community
College to enable students to gain experience in research methods
and museum management. Just this past year, Mary created the Fort
Hancock Oral History Project, as a way for students to get hands-on
experience with history: to date, students have conducted over 40
interviews, and have developed a database to track veterans who
served at Fort Hancock. In addition to mentoring undergraduates,
Ms. Rasa has produced publications for the Fort, including Museum
Collection: Preserving and Protecting Our Heritage, Fort Hancock
Walking Tour, Women's Army Corps, and The Fort Hancock Sign Plan;
as well as exhibits such as Sandy Hook's Military History, Social
Life at Fort Hancock, Sandy Hook Lighthouse Life, and The Cold War
Era at Fort Hancock.
Roy
Rosenzweig is Mark and Barbara Fried Professor of History &
New Media at George Mason University, where he also heads up the
Center on History and New Media (CHNM). As CHNM founder and director,
Dr. Rosenzweig is active in digital history projects on the French
Revolution, the history of sc ience and technology, world history,
the September 11, 2001 attacks, and the website History Matters:
The U.S. Survey Course on the Web. All of these projects are accessible
through the CHNM web site
<http://chnm.gmu.edu>.
His work was recognized in 2003 by the National Humanites Center
and the Rockefeller Foundation through the presentation of the Richard
W. Lyman Award, given for "outstanding achievement in the use
of information technology to advance scholarship and teaching in
the humanities."
Dr. Rosenzweig has authored many prize-winning publications. He
is the co-author, with Elizabeth Blackmar, of The Park and the
People: A History of Central Park, which won several awards,
including the 1993 Historic Preservation Book Award and the 1993
Urban History Association Prize for Best Book on North American
Urban History. He is the co-author, with David Thelen, of The
Presence of the Past: Popular Uses of History in American Life,
which won prizes from the Center for Historic Preservation and from
the American Association for State and Local History. He was co-author
of the CD-ROM Who Built America?, which won the American
Historical Association's James Harvey Robinson Prize for contributing
to the teaching and learning of history. He is author of Eight
Hours for What We Will: Works and Leisure in an Industrial City,
1870-1920, and has edited numerous history-related volumes.
He has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Fulbright professorship.
Currently, Dr. Rosenzweig serves as Vice President for Research
of the American Historical Association.
Sarah
Dashiell Rouse is Senior Program Officer with the Veterans History
Project, within the American Folklife Center, at the Library of
Congress (LOC). Ms. Rouse began her career at the LOC in 1976 by
working in the special collections--motion pictures, prints, photographs--before
transferring to the Veterans History Project in 2001. Sarah assists
the project director, Ellen McCulloch-Lovell, in developing and
structuring the Project. She directs the writing of the instructional
materials, works with partner organizations, is the liaison with
the oral history community, and guides the digitization of the Project.
A graduate of Randolph-Macon Women's College, Sarah then went on
to earn her M.L.S. from Catholic University. She has held leadership
positions in the Society of American Archivists, was awarded a Fulbright
Scholarship to Ireland, has taught collections management courses
at Catholic University, and is a published author.
Judith
Sloan is an actor, oral historian, human rights activist and
documentarian. Judith performs and teaches, including character
development, oral history and the arts, theater and community-building,
and conflict resolution. Judith has been a guest artist at the Public
Theater, La MaMA, the Smithsonian Institution and on National Public
Radio. With partner Warren Lehrer, Judith founded and runs EarSay--a
non-profit arts company dedicated to documenting and portraying
the lives of uncelebrated individuals and communities. The couple
has produced a book titled Crossing the BLVD, based on the immigrant
experience of living in Queens, NY.
Pam
Whitenack is Archivist and Director of the Archives at the Hershey
Community Archives, where she has worked for the past sixteen years.
Ms. Whitenack earned her B.A. in history from Wittenberg Unversity
and her M.A. in American history with a certification in museum
studies from the University of Delaware. She is co-author of Images
of America: Hershey a pictorial history of the community.Ms. Whitenack
is a past president of OHMAR.
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