The Oral History Manual Paperback - 2002

Barbara W. Sommer has spent her career in the field of public history. She helped develop a regional archives in Minnesota and directed a historical organization that won state and national recognition for its work. She has been an oral historian for more than twenty-five years, serving as director or co-director for numerous oral history projects, leading oral history workshops and making presentations, and she is a founder of the Oral History Association of Minnesota. She served as a reviewer for the Bush Foundation on its first Native American oral history proposal, and was appointed liaison for the Oral History Association to the American Association for State and Local History. She is the owner of BWS Associates, an oral history consulting firm. Sommer holds a B.A. from Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota, and an M.A. from the University of Minnesota. Mary Kay Quinlan, Ph.D., freelance journalist and oral historian, is editor of the Oral History Association Newsletter and has been active in regional and national oral history activities for many years. She was a Washington correspondent for the Omaha World-Herald and Gannett News Service for fifteen years and has taught graduate and undergraduate journalism courses. Quinlan has conducted oral history workshops, presented at regional and national conferences, and has been an NEH peer reviewer for oral history project proposals. Quinlan holds a B.A. with high distinction from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, an M.A. in journalism from the University of Maryland, and a Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of Maryland.