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About the Director
OHO at UConn Director Bruce M. Stave was the winner of the New England Association of Oral History's first Harvey Kantor Memorial Award for Outstanding Work in Oral History. He later served as that organization's president and the president of the New England Historical Association. He is Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of History Emeritus and chaired the University of Connecticut Department of History for nine years. His publications include From the Old Country: An Oral History of European Migration to America (co-author), winner of the 1995 Homer Babbidge Award, The Making of Urban History: Historiography through Oral History, and Mills and Meadows: A Pictorial History of Northeast Connecticut (with Michele Palmer, former manager of Tapescribe). Witnesses to Nuremberg: American Participants at the War Crimes Trials (with Michele Palmer and Leslie Frank) was published in November 1998. His book, Red Brick in the Land of Steady Habits: Creating the University of Connecticut, 1881-2006 was published for the University's 125th anniversary. He was editor of The Oral History Review , the journal of the Oral History Association, between 1996 through 1999 and currently serves on its Editorial Board, and is associate editor of the Journal of Urban History . He is co-editor of Talking About Connecticut: Oral History in the Nutmeg State. He served as a Fulbright Professor in India, Australia, New Zealand, the Philippines, and the People's Republic of China as well as lecturing in more than a dozen other nations.

Bruce M. Stave, Director
University of Connecticut
Whetten Graduate Center; Room 307
Oral History Office
438 Whitney Avenue Ext., U-1132
Storrs, CT 06269-1132
Voice: (860) 486-4578 or 6102
FAX: (860) 486-4582 or 0641
E-mail address: Bruce.Stave@UConn.edu

Associate Director Mark Overmyer-Velázquez is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Connecticut. After completing his doctoral studies in Latin American history at Yale University (2002), Overmyer-Velázquez taught in the History and Chicano/a Studies Departments at Pomona College. As the Andrew Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at Wesleyan University’s Center for the Humanities (2003-2004) he finished his first book, Visions of the Emerald City: Modernity, Tradition and the Formation of Porfirian Oaxaca, Mexico (Duke University Press, 2006). The book and related articles analyze how elites (city officials and Church leaders) and commoners (city artisans and female sex workers) mobilized visual cultures to construct and experience the mutually defining processes of modernity and tradition during late 19th and early 20th century Mexico. Supported by an SSRC International Migration Studies Grant, Professor Overmyer-Velázquez has initiated research on a second book project entitled, “‘Bleeding Mexico White’: Race, Nation, and the History of Mexico-US Migration.” This project examines the binational twentieth century history of Mexican migration situated at the intersection of Mexican and Mexican American (Chicano/a) histories and includes a study of Connecticut’s Mexican population. He is a Fellow at the University of Connecticut Humanities Institute for 2006-2007.

Martha McCormick, TAPESCRIBE Manager. comes to the Oral History Office from an administrative and managerial background, coupled with extensive transcribing knowledge. She also works part time for the Emiliana Noether Chair in Modern Italian History at the University of Connecticut. She is executive secretary of the New England Association of Oral History.