Shaun Illingworth, MLIS, is the director of the Rutgers Oral History Archives (ROHA). As webmaster for the #15 oral history website in the world, he has developed an online repository featuring tens of thousands of pages of fully transcribed, text-searchable material and more than 695 full-text interviews that cover a variety of topics, including military history, social and cultural history, Rutgers history, and New Jersey history.
Throughout his 14 years with ROHA, he has fostered a dramatic expansion of the program's scope and reach. Illingworth has been instrumental in developing all aspects of the program, including interviewing techniques, website engineering, undergraduate education, and community outreach.
Shaun Illingworth
DirectorRutgers Oral History Archives, Department of History
School of Arts & Sciences
Key topics
Personal experiences of American veterans and home front participants in WWII, Korea, Vietnam, the Cold War, and more; New Jersey 20th Century history; oral history general information and workshops