Category: Oral History

Category: Oral History

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

Brian Johnson, Northwest History Network Associate

Professional Credentials

  • MLIS, Emporia State University
  • BA, History / Anthropology, Linfield College

Personal Statement

I am a Certified Archivist with over 20 years of providing access to local history. I am experienced in project management and have provided a wide variety of services to customers needing assistance with archival, records and research projects.

Areas of Specialization

  • Archival and collection project management
  • Collection preservation needs and assessment
  • Copyright issues
  • Local historical resource
  • Local history research
  • Historical photograph research and identification
  • Historical materials assessment, sales and brokering

Professional Associations

  • Academy of Certified Archivists
  • Northwest Archivists
  • Society of American Archivists
  • Northwest History Network

Selected Positions, Projects, and Publications

  • Director of Archival and Preservation Services, American History Savers, Inc. Clients include:
    • The Baldpate Inn, Colorado
    • University of New Mexico
    • Trails Club of Oregon
    • Numerous local authors, collectors and antiquarian dealers.
  • Portland Fire & Rescue. Arcadia Publishing, 2007

Contact Information:
503-415-0713
brian.johnson@amhist.com
http://americanhistorysavers.com/

 

 

 

James Hillegas Northwest History Associate
Mr. Hillegas, who enjoys history as well as his coffee.

Professional Credentials

  • MA, History, Portland State University
  • BA, Interdisciplinary Studies, Fairhaven College, Western Washington University

Personal Statement

Historian of the 20th century urban environment in North America, including pollution abatement, the built environment, sustainability, and oral history.

Areas of Specialization

  • Education; Historical Research; Historical Writing; Oral History

Professional Associations

  • American Society for Environmental History
  • Urban History Association
  • Organization of American Historians
  • Northwest History Network
  • Oregon Historical Society

Selected Positions, Projects, and Publications

  • Working for the “Working River”: Willamette River Pollution, 1926-1975 [working title]. Book in progress, Oregon State University Press, Corvallis, OR.
  • “Working for the ‘Working River’: Willamette River Pollution, 1926-1962.” MA Thesis, Portland State University, 2009.
  • “With the Determination of the Machine Age: Interstate 5 is Built through Bellingham, Washington, 1945-1966,” The Journal of the Whatcom County Historical Society, Centennial Edition (2004), 105-138.
  • Oregon Encyclopedia entries:
    • “Izaak Walton League in Oregon”
    • “Geocaching”
    • “U.S.S. Sederstrom (DE-31)”
    • “U.S.S. Astoria (CA-34)”
    • “U.S.S. Oregon City (CA-122)”
    • “U.S.S. Coos Bay (AVP-25) / U.S.C.G.C. Coos Bay (WHEC-376)”
    • “Mt. Angel Oktoberfest”

Contact Information:
971-506-5998
~jvhillegas@gmail.com
http://wwwhistoricalthreads.blogspot.com/
http://sustainabilityhistory.org/