Leadership

Throughout his twenty-one years with ROHA, Shaun Illingworth has fostered a dramatic expansion of the program's scope and reach. Trained in oral history and library and information science at Rutgers University, Mr. Illingworth has been instrumental in developing all aspects of the program, including interviewing techniques, website engineering, undergraduate education and community outreach. As webmaster for the #15 oral history website in the world, he has developed an online repository featuring over a thousand oral histories and tens of thousands of pages of fully transcribed, text-searchable material that cover a variety of topics, including social, cultural, legal, educational, immigration and military history, as well as the histories of Rutgers University and the State of New Jersey. He earned a B.A. in History at Rutgers College and an MLIS at the Rutgers School of Communications and Information.

Associate Director Jeongeun "Jŏng-ŭn" Park (she/her) is a historian, a digital humanities specialist, and an educator. Jeongeun is a community builder who is excited to Engage Diverse Voices so that ROHA can tell a more complete Rutgers and New Jersey story. She looks forward to exploring how the personal, the local, and the state history connect to the national and the global history. She hopes to highlight the ordinary and the extraordinary stories of individuals enmeshed in history by increasing the accessibility of ROHA's digital archive, broadening the reach of its newsletters and podcasts, and expanding community outreach. Jeongeun is an avid reader of histories of the Cold War and modern Northeast Asia. She received her Master of Arts in History from Rutgers University-New Brunswick and her Bachelor of Arts in History from Stanford University.