Higher Education Collaborative

Interested in involving students in the project?

The Higher Education Collaborative works with local professors to involve college and university students in collecting and transcribing oral histories of Worcester women as a part of their coursework. Students have the opportunity to learn actively through hands-on experience with oral history and share their work with the Worcester community through public forums, in print and online. This is an effort to create innovative cross-institution collaboration and engage students in the community in a respectful and meaningful way.

Since this effort was launched in 2005, the following professors have incorporated WWOHP interviewing into their courses. It is our hope that every campus in the Colleges of Worcester Consortium will have at least one related project underway during the 2007-08 academic year.

Lisa Krissoff Boehm, Worcester State College, Urban Studies Department

UR 191 - City as Text (Fall 2006)
UR 290 - Gender and the City (Fall 2005)

Carol Donnelly, Worcester State College, Education Department

UR 191 - City as Text (Fall 2006)

Judy Fask, Holy Cross College, Deaf Studies Program

DFST 350 - Experience in the Deaf Community Seminar (Spring 2007)
DFST 301 - Advanced ASL (Fall 2007)

Charlotte Haller, Worcester State College, History Department

History/Women’s Studies 207 - Women and Work in Historical Perspective (Spring 2007)

Deborah Martin, Clark University, Geography Department

Geography 141 - Research Methods in Geography (Spring 2007)

Brian K. Neice, Assumption College, Chemistry Department

Honors 100 - Life Stories (Fall 2006)

Kelly Niles Yokum, Consortium Gerontology Studies Program

Sociology 257 - Aging and Society (Holy Cross, Spring 2007)

Future Connections

Stephanie Yuhl, Holy Cross College, History Department

History Seminar (Fall 2007)
Public History

Rosa Carrasquillo, Holy Cross College, History Department

Latino History (Fall 2007)

Contact

Lisa Krissoff Boehm, PhD. in American History, is the consulting historian for WWOHP. In addition to supporting WWOHP with the overall project, Krissoff Boehm is available to discuss the ways in which the project can fit into courses offered at area colleges. If you plan to use the WWOHP project for a class assignment, please contact her at 508-929-8669 or .

Krissoff Boehm is Associate Professor of Urban Studies and Director of the Commonwealth Honors Program at Worcester State College. Krissoff Boehm is the author of Popular Culture and the Enduring Myth of Chicago (Routledge, 2004) and the upcoming Making a Way Out of No Way: African American Women, Domestic Work, and the Second Great Migration, 1940-1970, which employs oral histories. She wrote a chapter for the work, Preparing the Next Generation of Oral Historians (Alta Mira Press, 2006) and is the North East Regional Director for Consortium of Oral History Educators or COHE.