Here you can find an oral historian in our region!

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LIZ H. STRONG
Location: New York, NY
Email: lizhibbard@gmail.com

Liz H. Strong is a freelance oral historian, living in New York City. She has worked for the Columbia Center for Oral History Research, the New York Preservation Archive Project, the Washington State Department of Commerce, and many others. Strong earned a BA in Narrative Arts from Oberlin College in 2009, and an MA in Oral History from Columbia University in 2015.

MELISSA ZIOBRO
Location: West Long Branch, NJ
Email: mziobro@monmouth.edu

Melissa Ziobro currently serves as the Specialist Professor of Public History at Monmouth University, offering classes such as Oral History, Introduction to Public History, and Museum and Archives Management Basics. Her service includes the administration of the Department of History and Anthropology’s social media program and its student club, production of the Department newsletter, and management of the University’s fledgling “Monmouth Memories” oral history program. Melissa is also the editor of New Jersey Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal (a peer-reviewed journal published twice annually under the auspices of the NJ Historical Commission, Rutgers University Library, and Monmouth University). She worked as a command historian at the U.S. Army Communications-Electronics Command, Fort Monmouth, NJ from 2004-2011, where her duties included administering the Command’s oral history program for the Center of Military History.

ERICA FUGGER
Location: New York, NY
Email: erica.fugger@gmail.com

Erica Fugger is a New York-based oral historian whose focus lies in examining the personal narratives underpinning revolutions and social movements. She currently serves as President of the Columbia Oral History Alumni Association and Project Coordinator of the Oral History M.A. program, of which she is a recent graduate. Erica’s previous experience includes managing the historic collections of the Columbia Center for Oral History Archives, conducting oral histories for the Brooklyn Navy Yard Center, and teaching interviewing workshops around the New York metropolitan area. As an Atlantic Philanthropies Research Fellow at INCITE, she coordinates the Wake Up Oral History Project, which uses oral history as a form of community and capacity building for a transnational Buddhist youth movement in the tradition of Vietnamese Zen Master Thích Nhất Hạnh.

DAVID J. CARUSO
Location: Philadelphia, PA
Email: dcaruso@sciencehistory.org

David J. Caruso is the Director of The Center for Oral History at the Science History Institute and former President of OHMAR. He is also the former Review Editor for the Oral History Review.

KATHERINE A. SCOTT

Katherine A. Scott is Assistant Historian of the U.S. Senate Historical Office.

LU ANN JONES

National Park Services staff historian Lu Ann Jones specializes in oral history research methods and the history of women, labor, agriculture, and the American South. She is a member of OHMAR’s Board of Officers.