Save the Date: April 10, 2015
Annual Miller Memorial Lecture Featuring
Historian and Curator Katherine Ott
We are pleased to announce Katherine Ott, a public historian and curator at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History, as the speaker for the annual Fredric M. Miller Memorial Lecture. Ott earned her Ph.D. at Temple University, where she studied the history of medicine and took the archives class taught by Fred Miller. Ott is the author or co-editor of three books, an OAH Distinguished Lecturer, and is in the midst of program planning for the 25th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act this July.
This event honors the life and legacy of Miller, the curator of the Urban Archives at Temple University from 1973 to 1989 and a program officer of the National Endowment for the Humanities from 1989 to 1998. This year, we invite you to the Campus Center at Rutgers-Camden on April 10 for the lecture, which will begin at 6 p.m. with a reception preceding. The lecture will culminate an exciting series of events on the Rutgers-Camden campus, beginning April 9-10 with the annual conference of Oral History in the Mid-Atlantic Region (OHMAR) and continuing on April 10 with the public history unconference “Telling Untold Histories” prior to the lecture. Registration information for the lecture will be posted soon on the MARCH website; for the conferences, registration is open now. Mark your calendars!