A little about myself

Hello, welcome. My name is Will. I’m a public historian specializing in oral history project development and digital content curation, with expertise in museum collections research and archival records management.

I’ve mostly collaborated on national and local initiatives that have helped museums and non-profit organizations build more usable interpretations of the past on their own terms.

My professional background and research interests adhere to an ethic of, what the renowned oral historian Michael Frisch calls, ‘shared authority’ and operate at the intersection of race, memory, and power. I completed my PhD in History at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and Public History MA at American University.

A commitment to gender and sex equity, racial and economic justice informs my work. I bring this perspective to bear as a public historian who has collaborated on numerous archival, oral history, and digital humanities projects with diverse community partners.