Dr. Erin Conlin
Dr. Erin L. Conlin earned her PhD from the University of Florida, where she analyzed the evolution of Florida’s modern farm labor regime through a detailed examination of twentieth-century Bahamian migratory farmworkers. She is now an assistant professor specializing in oral, public, and 20th-century U.S. history at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. In this position, she teaches a variety of history courses at the graduate and undergraduate level. Currently, Erin is developing oral history as a pedagogical tool in her undergraduate survey history classes. She uses it to highlight connections between personal and local/national histories, and to demonstrate the diverse ways in which historians gather and marshal evidence to craft effective, analytical arguments. As a member of the Oral History Association Education Committee, Erin hopes to continue developing oral history as pedagogy and reflecting on its efficacy. Erin is also working on developing IUP’s oral history program.
Erin joined SPOHP in Fall 2012 as a graduate coordinator, and then spent a year as a visiting scholar at the Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada. As a SPOHP graduate coordinator, she helped organize SPOHP’s public programs and supervised the growing internship program. She also taught an “Introduction to Oral History” course. In both the internship and introductory course, Erin organized community-based oral history projects to encourage students to connect with the broader public.
Erin earned her BA degree from the University of Wisconsin in 2002 and her MA degree from the University of Florida in 2010. For more information about Erin, read her featured SPOHP biography.
Liz Gray
Liz Gray graduated from UF in Spring 2014 with a BA in History and the Florida Teaching minor. Liz worked at SPOHP for two years, transcribing oral histories for the African American History Project and the Panama Canal Project.
Liz is currently volunteering at SPOHP and applying to be a secondary history teacher in the Alachua County School District.
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