Oral History, Community, and Work in the American West

Contributors

339 Contributors José M. Alamillo was born in Cueva Grande, Zacatecas, Mexico, and raised on a lemon ranch in Ventura County. His family worked in the lemon packinghouses and orchards year-round, which allowed him and his siblings to attend local public schools uninterrupted . At middle school age, he took part in University of California , Santa Barbara’s Educational Opportunity Program (EOP) that encouraged minority students to attend a four-year college or university . He is a proud beneficiary of affirmative action programs like EOP. After graduating from the University of California, Santa Barbara , he started graduate school at University of California, Irvine, in the Comparative Cultures Program (ethnic studies). William Bauer (Wailacki and Concow of the Round Valley Indian tribes) is an associate professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He has written one book, “We Were All Like Migrant Workers Here”: Work, Community and Memory on Northern California’s Round Valley Reservation, 1850–1941 (University of North Carolina Press, 2009) and has published essays in the Western Historical Quarterly, American Indian Quarterly, and Southern California Historical Quarterly. A native Californian and a folklorist, Barbara Allen Bogart began her oral history career when she was a doctoral candidate at the University of California, Los Angeles. As a faculty member in the American Studies Department at the University of Notre Dame, she created a course on the American West that she continues to teach for the University of Wyoming. She conducted several oral history projects when she worked at the Wyoming State Museum and as director of the Uinta County Museum in Evanston, Wyoming . Almost all of her research and writing has focused on local history and oral narratives in western communities. 340 Contributors Leisl Carr Childers is a visiting professor at Northern Arizona University . She worked on the Nevada Test Site Oral History Project at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, between 2005 and 2008, interviewing ranchers and radiation monitors, preparing the oral histories for archiving, and digitizing the collection on the university library’s website. The interviews she conducted formed the basis of her dissertation, “The Size of the Risk: An Environmental History of the Nuclear Great Basin,” completed in 2011. She currently works with history and social studies teachers on a Teaching American History grant in Flagstaff, Arizona. Jessie L. Embry is the associate director of the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies. She was a member of the first oral history class sponsored by the Redd Center in 1973 and became the director of the oral history program in 1979. She has written ten books and more than one hundred articles, which are nearly all based on oral history. She has taught an oral history class at Brigham Young University and long-distance. Marci Farr currently works as a manuscript processor at Weber State University, Stewart Library Special Collections. She was a student fellow in 2007 with John Sillito and researched Thomas D. Dee for the Utah Construction Company annual symposium. With the completion of that project, she was hired to interview graduate nurses from the Dee Hospital as well as St. Benedict’s Hospital School of Nursing to ensure their stories will be preserved when they are no longer here to share them. Joanne L. Goodwin is associate professor of history at University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and director of the Women’s Research Institute of Nevada. Her publications include Women in American History, 1585—Present, an Encyclopedia, edited with Joyce Appelby and Eileen Cheng (M. E. Sharp, 2002); Gender and the Politics of Welfare Reform (University of Chicago Press, 1997); and numerous chapters , articles, and reviews in Gender and History, Journal of Women’s History, Signs, Pacific Historical Review, and the Journal of Social History. Her research on the first social welfare policy for single mothers, called mothers’ pensions, has been published and re- Contributors 341 printed in several collections. Since arriving at UNLV, she has played a major role in the collection, preservation, and dissemination of women’s history in the Las Vegas valley. She has published widely in that new area. Sarah Langsdon is associate curator of special collection at the Stewart Library, Weber State University, where she has worked since 1999. In 2000, she graduated with a master’s in history from Utah State University. She coauthored a book with John Sillito in the Arcadia Images of America series on Ogden. She has been involved in collecting oral...