Megan DeFries is the oral historian for Duquesne University’s Oral History Initiative. Since 2014, Megan has been conducting the Spiritan Oral History Project, documenting the lives of Spiritan priests and missionaries, and in 2016 began the Duquesne Veterans’ Oral History Project, recording the service experiences of veteran students and alumni. She has presented papers at the Oral History Society Conference in Leeds, UK in July 2017 and at the Oral History Association Annual Meeting in Montreal, Quebec, Canada in October 2018. Megan is a member of the Oral History Association and the Oral History Society. She can be reached at 412-396-6323 or defries171@duq.edu.

Amanda Seim is currently in the Public History Masters program at Duquesne University. She recently interned with the Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation where she developed and conducted a walking tour of East Liberty. While working as a graduate research assistant this past year, Amanda helped set up Duquesne University’s first Digital History laboratory. For the Veterans’ Oral History Project, she created the interactive map that traces each of the veterans’ movements during their time in service. She also helped build the individual StoryMaps that trace the steps of each individual veteran’s journey. View Amanda’s digital portfolio here.

Stephanie Walrath is pursuing a Master’s degree in Public History at Duquesne University, with a focus on environmental history and cultural education in National Parks. She has interned in educational programming pertaining to the civil rights movement and urban slavery with the Historic Columbia Foundation in Columbia, SC, as well as in an Oral History capacity with the Duquesne University Archives. For the Veterans’ Oral History Project, Stephanie created the digital exhibit’s first two podcasts highlighting relevant issues in veterans’ affairs; she also created the StoryMaps that follow each veteran’s service journey. Her public history portfolio can be viewed here.

Anna Samuels is a Public History Masters candidate at Duquesne University. During her time at Duquesne, she’s collaborated on an oral history project with her class that documented a student led movement to raise money for the university in the 1960s and served as an intern for the “South Side Voices: Stories on Carson,” a community oral history project. For the Veterans’ Oral History Project, Anna created the comprehensive timeline which traces the history of each conflict alongside the narrators’ movements. She also contributed two narrative maps tracing the wartime experiences of veterans Raymond Amelio and Thomas Meade. Follow her on twitter @annajsamuels or check out her portfolio here.

Kedric Reiser is a second year Masters student in Public History at Duquesne University. He as interned at the Mercer County Historical Society developing a display for the Mercer Bicentenial. For the Duquesne Veterans Oral History Project, Kedric managed the development of the scalar site for the project and contributed story maps on Daniel Cronin and Joseph Murray.