Category: Oregon

Category: Oregon

Professional Credentials

  • BA in History from Yale University
  • MA in Oral History from Columbia University

Personal Statement

I am an oral historian, community organizer and popular educator committed to furthering history and historical inquiry as a method for movement building and transformative social change. I believe in supporting diverse communities and organizations to document, analyze, and learn from their own histories.

Areas of Specialization

  • Oral history
  • Public history
  • Rural Oregon
  • Social movements
  • Grassroots and community-based organizing
  • El Salvador
  • Immigration

Professional Associations

  • Groundswell: Oral History for Social Change
  • Oral History Association

Selected Positions, Projects, and Publications

  • Network Founder and Co-Coordinator, Groundswell: Oral History for Social Change – Emerging network of oral historians, cultural workers, and community organizers who use oral history and narrative for social change and movement building.
  • Project Coordinator, Roots & Wings Oral History Project, Rural Organizing Project- Community-based oral history project to collectively document, critically analyze, and publicly disseminate the history of grassroots, progressive organizing in rural Oregon over the last twenty-five years.
  • Independent Producer, La Historia: A Transnational Story of Salvadoran Community Organizing – Oral history and audio documentary project exploring the role of historical memory in the transnational organizing of a Virginia-based Salvadoran immigrant Hometown Association.
  • Peter Kardas and Sarah K. Loose (eds.), The Making of a Popular Educator: The Journey of Beverly A. Brown. Portland, OR: Jefferson Center, 2010.
  • Sarah K. Loose with Juan Ayala Argueta, Ramon Alfaro Veliz, and Isidra Garcia Villalobos,Una Sistematización de la Educación Popular en el Cantón Santa Marta, Cabañas, El Salvador, 1978 – 2001. San Salvador: ADES Santa Marta, 2003.

Contact Information:
sarahloose@gmail.com

Professional Credentials

 

Personal Statement

I am a multimedia artist specializing in moving imagery and instructional
technology. I consider myself an amateur historian focusing on the heritage
and history of my community, the Silverton Country, as well as the history
of multimedia technology and its impact on society.Areas of Specialization:
Digital motion picture production, editing and animation. I am skilled in
all aspects of digital and analog graphic art, moving imagery and audio
techniques. I am especially interested in acoustic audio recording
techniques, late 19th century political cartoons and early motion picture
hard and software. I am also well versed in analog to digital conversion of
various media, including but not limited to Optical Character Recognition
(OCR), phonographic audio restoration, photographic scanning, and film
transfer. I am a frequent lecturer on a variety of topics, from antique
phonographics to Martian lava tube caves.

Professional Associations

  • Northwest History Network

Selected Positions, Projects, and Publications

  • Coordinator – The Davenport Project
  • GeerCrest Farm & Historical Society – Board of Directors
  • CONTACT: Cultures of the Imagination – Board of Directors
  • Silverton Planning Commission – Commissioner
  • Silverton Grange No. 748 – Lecturer
  • “Cartoons by Davenport” – Researcher and editor for this annotated edition of Hearst cartoonist Homer Davenport’s 1898 book
  • “Silverton” – Author/Compiler of Arcadia Publishing’s book on Silverton fortheir “Images of America” series

Contact Information:
503-779-9378
http://gus.2020oregon.net
The Davenport Project