The Advisory Board of distinguished scholars from both within Rutgers and across the nation advises the Oral History Archives regarding methodology. Professor John W. Chambers, professor of history at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, serves as the chair of the project's advisory committee. He is the author of the books To Raise an Army: The Draft Comes to Modern America (Free Press/Macmillan, 1987) and The Tyranny of Change: America in the Progressive Era, 1890-1920 (Rutgers Press, 2000), and the editor-in-chief of The Oxford Companion to War, Peace, and Society. Dr. G. Kurt Piehler, former director of the Oral History Archives, teaches in the history department at the University Tennessee in Knoxville, Tennessee. Professor Piehler's early scholarship has centered on questions of identity, memory, and the politics of commemoration. He is the author of several published articles and a book, Remembering War the American Way (Smithsonian Institution Press, 1995). Other board members include David Levering Lewis, the Pulitzer Prize winning historian, Alice Kessler-Harris, an internationally recognized scholar of women's history, and Richard Kohn, the former Chief Historian of the United States Air Force. |
