Dr. Viet Thanh Nguyen is awarded the Stephen E. Ambrose Oral History Award by Shaun Illingworth, Director of the Rutgers Oral History Archives, and Bill Fernekes, Ed.D., Chair of the Rutgers Living History Society, at the Annual Meeting on May 2, 2026.
THE STEPHEN E. AMBROSE ORAL HISTORY AWARD is presented annually by The Rutgers University Living History Society to individuals who have made an outstanding contribution to the practice and/or use of oral history. The award is named for the late historian and author Stephen E. Ambrose, who helped guide the Rutgers Oral History Archives program at its inception in 1994 and who served on its Academic Advisory Board for the balance of his life.
Past Recipients
Viet Thanh Nguyen (2026)
Daniel James Brown (2025)
Julieanna Richardson (2024)
Svetlana Alexievich (2022-23)
Doug Stanton (2020-21)
Deborah Gray White (2019)
James Bradley (2018)
John Whiteclay Chambers II (2017)
Ric Burns (2016)
Jacqueline Dowd Hall (2015)
Peter Bergen (2014)
Michael Beschloss (2013)
Isabel Wilkerson (2012)
Elizabeth & Michael Norman (2011)
David Isay (2010)
Ken Burns (2009)
Rick Atkinson (2008)
Studs Terkel (2007)
Steven Spielberg (2006)
Tom Brokaw (2005)