Archives and Public History Faculty
Dr. Peter J. Wosh, Director of the Archives and Public History Program, addresses an historical gathering at the Surrogate's Court/Hall of Records in New York City.
Peter J. Wosh
Director, Programs in Archival Management and Public History
Professor Wosh directs the program in Archives and Public History at NYU. Professor Wosh’s research has focused primarily on American religion, American institutional cultures, and archival management issues. His background includes work as an archivist in a variety of academic and nonprofit institutions, including: Director of Archives and Library Services, American Bible Society (1989-1994); Archivist/Records Manager, American Bible Society (1984-1989); University Archivist, Seton Hall University (1978-1984). He is the author of Privacy and Confidentiality Perspectives: Archivists and Archival Records, with Menzi Behrnd-Klodt (Chicago: Society of American Archivists, 2005); Covenant House: Journey of a Faith-Based Charity (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005); Spreading the Word: The Bible Business in Nineteenth-Century America (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1994); The Diocesan Journal of Michael Augustine Corrigan, Bishop of Newark, New Jersey, 1872-1880 (Newark: New Jersey Historical Society, 1987); as well as articles in various archival, historical, and library journals. Professor Wosh’s current research involves editing the published writings of Waldo Gifford Leland, a pioneering archival theoretician, for the Archival Classics series published by the Society of American Archivists.
Rachel Bernstein
Adjunct Professor of History
Professor Bernstein received her PhD from Rutgers University in 1984 and shortly thereafter joined the Program in Public History as Adjunct Professor. She teaches several courses in the program, regularly offering “Oral History.” Professor Bernstein also conducts seminars and directs oral history projects for a wide variety of labor and community organizations. In collaboration with Debra Bernhardt she worked on Ordinary People, Extraordinary Lives: 100 Years of Labor in New York City, which involved a documentation project, a conference, a book, and a traveling exhibit. Her collaboration with Professor Mattingly on the Public History Program led to their article, "The Pedagogy of Public History" published in the Fall 1998 edition of the Journal of American Ethnic History (v. 18, no 1).
Nancy Cricco is the University Archivist at New York University, where she also received her M.A. in American Civilization with a Certificate in Archival Management and Historical Editing. Ms. Cricco has been at NYU since 1992, and is responsible for administering a collection that currently includes 5000 linear feet of records, 200,000 photographic images, 3000 audio and video tapes, and assorted ephemera. She has been especially active recently in coordinating a major project to mark up NYU's finding aids and digitize various images and texts from the special collections area in order to promote the remote researching of archival materials via the World Wide Web. Prior to joining New York University, Ms. Cricco worked at the Brooklyn Historical Society and the Chapin School in New York City. An active participant in local and national archival organizations, she has presented papers at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference and also delivered an address concerning "Archival Sources for Documenting the Role of Women in Higher Education" at the Fifth Interdisciplinary Congress on Women at the University of Costa Rica. Her recently published book, The Miracle on Washington Square, constitutes an important photo history of New York University. Ms. Cricco is an adjunct in the Archives Program, teaching courses on using Enhanced Archival Description through Standard General Mark-Up Language.
Paula De Stefano heads the Preservation Department at New York University, where she administers all aspects of the Libraries' preservation program. Ms. De Stefano has been with NYU since 1988, and worked in various capacities in the preservation department at Columbia University for four years prior to that date. A nationally known authority on preservation matters, Ms. De Stefano has taught several courses on preservation management, reformatting, and archival/library preservation for the Palmer School of Library and Information Science at Long Island University and has presented a number of lectures, courses, and workshops throughout the United States. Some recent publications include: "Use-Based Selection for Preservation Microfilming," College and Research Libraries (September 1995); "New York State Combines Mass Deacidification with Rebinding," Conservation Administration News (July/October 1994); and "Photograph Preservation: A New Component in Preservation Programs," in Photograph Preservation and the Research Library (Mountain View CA: The Research Libraries Group, 1991). Ms. De Stefano is an adjunct in the Archives Program, teaching an introductory course on preservation and reformatting.
Thomas J. Frusciano has served as University Archivist and Records Officer at Rutgers University since 1989, where he also teaches a course on Manuscripts and Archives in the School of Communications, Information, and Library Services. Mr. Frusciano's archival experience also includes a stint as University Archivist (1981-1989) and head of the Tamiment Institute Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives (1987-1989) at New York University, and as Assistant Archivist at Educational Testing Service (19761981). He received his M.A. in History from the University of Montana in 1976, and a Certificate in Archival Management from the University of Denver the same year. Frusciano has written widely on archival automation and software. He co-authored the book, New York University and the City: An Illustrated History, which was published by Rutgers University Press in 1997. Mr. Frusciano has taught numerous workshops and courses on various aspects of archival management, and has lectured widely on the USMARC:amc format. He has chaired of the Society of American Archivists' College and University Archives Section, and Archival Educators' Roundtable, and was named a Fellow of the Society in 2002. He is an adjunct in the archival management program, teaching courses on automation and the USMARC:amc format. Tom currently edits the exciting and prestigious new Journal of Archival Organization, published by Haworth Press, which made its debut in 2002.
Cathy Moran Hajo
Adjunct Professor of History
Professor Hajo is the Associate Editor and Assistant Director of the Margaret Sanger Papers, a scholarly editing project located at NYU. With the Sanger Papers, she has published two volumes of the _Selected Papers of Margaret Sanger_, a two-series microfilm edition, and two electronic publications. She has worked as a documentary editor for almost twenty years, specializing in the publication of historical materials in digital form, and participating in scholarly conferences and meetings on digital issues. She is President-Elect of the Association for Documentary Editing, to become president in October 2008. Dr. Hajo received her PhD from NYU in 2006 and is currently revising her dissertation, "What Every Woman Should Know: Birth Control Clinics in the United States, 1916-1939." for publication. She recently wrote: "Last Words: Documenting the End of Lives," which was published in the Fall 2006 issue of Documentary Editing.
Esther Katz
Adjunct Professor of History and Director/Editor, the Margaret Sanger Papers Project
Professor Katz teaches the graduate seminar in Historical Editing. She serves as the Director and Editor of the Margaret Sanger Papers Project, sponsored by the Department of History and supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities as well as various governmental grants and private foundations. Professor Katz is currently editing the second and third volumes of the four-volume The Selected Papers of Margaret Sanger, published by Illinois University Press. Drawn from over 150,000 of Sanger's letters and papers, these volumes will highlight the public and private life of the nation's most notable birth control leader and trace the intersection of Sanger's life and work with other reformers, activists and world leaders. In addition to the book edition, Professor Katz is also working on The Speeches and Articles of Margaret Sanger, an electronic edition of Sanger's unpublished speeches and less accessible articles that will be published on the NYU Web site. In recognition of her work on the Sanger Papers Project, Professor Katz was awarded a grant from the American Council of Learned Societies in 1989. She also authored Women's Experience in America: An Historical Anthology (Transaction Books, 1980).
Robert Sink, who teaches the Institutional Archives course, has been Chief Archivist for the Center for Jewish History since 2001. The Center, which is located on West 16th Street in New York City , serves as the archival research repository for several significant institutions, including: the American Jewish Historical Society, the Leo Baeck Institute; YIVO; the American Sephardic Institute; and the Yeshiva University Museum . Prior to joining the CJH, Bob had worked as Archivist/Records Manager at the New York Public Library since 1985. Bob is a distinguished member of the profession, a Fellow of the Society of American Archivists, a New York City Centennial Historian, and the recipient of a Distinguished Achievement in the Archival Profession Award from the Archivists Round Table of Metropolitan New York in 1996. Prior to assuming his current position, Bob worked for NYPL as a Manuscript Specialist (1981-1985), and served as Senior Archivist for the Brooklyn Rediscovery Project (1978-1981). He has published widely on a variety of archival and historical topics ranging from Lewis Hine photographs to archival appraisal, and speaks regularly at archival conferences. He has served the profession in a variety of capacities, most recently completing a stint as SAA Treasurer in 2000. Bob has been teaching archives courses for nearly twenty years, at such institutions as Columbia University, St. John's University , and Queens College . Bob received his M.A. in American Urban History from the City University of New York in 1977 and an M.S. in Library and Information Science from Pratt that same year.
Daniel Walkowitz
Professor of History and Metropolitan Studies
Professor Walkowitz received his PhD (1972) at the University of Rochester, where he worked with Herbert Gutman. In 1980-81 he and Professor Mattingly co-founded the Program in Public History, which capitalized on his ongoing interests in history and filmmaking. He has taught the Public History Seminar several times and also serves as the head of NYU’s undergraduate Program in Metropolitan Studies. Walkowitz has worked as the co-director (with Barbara Abrash) of the PBS television docudrama, The Molders of Troy, which drew upon his doctoral research and his book, Worker City, Company Town (University of Illinois Press, 1978). He has served as advisor on a number of important historical films and documentaries, including "The Wobblies" and "The Good Fight." His book, Working with Class: Social Workers and the Politics of Middle-Class Identity (University of North Carolina Press, 1999), uses the study of social workers to explore the interplay of race, ethnicity, and gender with class and examines how the conflict between blacks and Jews in New York City during the 1960s shaped late-twentieth-century social policy concerning work, opportunity, and entitlements.
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