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. Classroom tutorials on conducting oral histories are available if requested. It is our hope that every campus in the Colleges of Worcester Consortium will become involved in this project.

To view signed interviews conducted by students in the College of the Holy Cross American Sign Language and Deaf Studies program, please visit  http://www.holycross.edu/departments/CISS/deafstudies/website/wwhp.html

  • Linda Ammons, Assumption College, Anthropology/Sociology Department Women’s Studies: Images (Spring 2009)
  • Lisa Krissoff Boehm, Worcester State College, Urban Studies Department City as Text (Fall 2006) Gender and the City (Fall 2005) Introduction Women’s Studies (Spring 2009)
  • Rosa Carrasquillo, College of the Holy Cross, History Department Latino History (Fall 2007)
  • Leslie Choquette, Assumption College, History Department Women's Studies: Images (Spring 2009, Fall 2009)
  • Carol Donnelly, Worcester State College, Education Department City as Text (Fall 2006)
  • Regina Edmonds, Assumption College, Psychology Department Women’s Studies: Images (Fall 2008)
  • Judy Fask, College of the Holy Cross, Deaf Studies Program Experience in the Deaf Community Seminar (Spring 2007, 2008) Advanced ASL (Fall 2007, 2008)
  • Paula Fitzpatrick, Assumption College, Psychology Department Honors 100 – Life Stories (Fall 2008)
  • Charlotte Haller, Worcester State College, History Department History/Women’s Studies 207 - Women and Work in Historical Perspective (Spring 2007)
  • Louise Caroll Keeley, Assumption College, Philosophy Department Honors 100 – Life Stories (Fall 2008)
  • Maryanne Leone, Assumption College, Foreign Language Department Women’s Studies: Images (Fall 2008) 
  • Deborah Martin, Clark University, Geography Department  Research Methods in Geography (Spring 2007)
  • Brian K. Neice, Assumption College, Chemistry Department   Honors 100 - Life Stories (Fall 2006)
  •  Maria Parmley, Assumption College, Psychology Department Women’s Studies: Images (Fall 2009)
  •  Kelly Niles Yokum, Consortium Gerontology Studies Program Aging and Society (Holy Cross, Spring 2007)
  • Stephanie Yuhl, College of the Holy Cross, History Department History Seminar (Fall 2007, Fall 2009)

Contact

Maureen Ryan Doyle and Charlene L. Martin, Ed.D. are the co-chairs of the Worcester Women’s Oral History Project and are 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 them at 508-767-1852 or info [at] wwhp [dot] org.