Vic Geraci is the Food and Wine Historian of the Regional Oral History Office. Upon completing his Masters in Public History from San Diego State University (1992) he went on to complete his doctorate in American history from UC Santa Barbara (1997). Between 1997 – 2003 Geraci held positions as Assistant and later Associate Professor of History at Central Connecticut State University. While at CCSU Geraci served as the History Department’s Director of the Secondary History / Social Science Teacher Education program, taught upper division American history courses, and helped establish a Master’s Degree program in Public History where he taught the Introductory and Oral History courses. His main areas of research interest include American Agriculture (Post Civil War to Present) with specific focus on the California Wine Industry. In 2003 Geraci came to University of California Berkeley as a Food and Wine Historian/Specialist where he utilizes oral and public history methodologies honed through projects involving Sicilian Immigration, alcoholic centers, local history, environmental organizations, vintner associations, forestry, and over forty years of secondary and university teaching and curriculum development in California. He has written journal articles and reviews in the Southern California Quarterly, Journal of Agricultural History, The Public Historian, JIWA, Connecticut History, and the Journal of San Diego History. Geraci’s book publications include the co-authored Aged In Oak, The Lure of the Forest: Oral Histories from the National Forests in California, The Unmarked Trail: Managing National Forests in a Turbulent Era, Salud: The Story of the Santa Barbara Wine Industry and the co-edited the book Icons of American Cooking.

Robin Li is an Academic Specialist at ROHO. While at ROHO, she has worked on the Rosie the Riveter/World War II Homefront Oral History Project, the Oakland Army Base Oral History Project as well as serving as the lead interviewer for the Otto Lin Oral History Project. In 2007, Li received her PhD from the University of Michigan in American Culture, where she studied U.S. cultural history and ethnic narratives. Her approach to oral history prioritizes collecting and analyzing life history narratives, and then using those narratives to engage with more traditional archival sources. Li's research interests include transnational identity formation, narrations of science, the US in the world, and cultural history. She is currently at work on a book manuscript exploring the narration of US-China relations in the mid-twentieth century through the oral histories of Chinese student immigrants. 

Martin Meeker is an Academic Specialist at ROHO. At ROHO, Martin heads up several oral history projects, including: the Kaiser Permanente project, which explores the history of health care since 1970; the Shorenstein Program, which looks into the politics and policy of national debt; the Oakland Army Base project, which recovered the social history of a large military installation; and several other projects, many of which focus on the history of politics and social movements in the San Francisco Bay Area. Martin’s approach to oral history interviewing is to move beyond the “recovering voices” tradition of oral history and, instead, to explore how interviewing can help scholars develop and refine their research questions and even begin to test hypotheses qualitatively. Martin earned his doctorate in U.S. history from the University of Southern California and then taught at San Francisco State University and UC Berkeley. He has published widely, including essays in the Pacific Historical Review and the Journal of Women’s History. His book, Contacts Desired: Gay and Lesbian Communications and Community, 1940s-1970s, was published by University of Chicago Press in 2006. Martin joined ROHO in 2003.

Emily Redman is a PhD candidate in the history of science at U.C. Berkeley. With ROHO since 2008, she has served as an interviewer for the Otto Lin Oral History Project and the Jud King Oral History Project. Her approach to oral history includes using archived oral histories as well as conducting her own interviews, both of which are then paired with more traditional archival sources in constructing a historical narrative. When working with federal documents, Redman has found that historical sources are often incomplete and sometimes unavailable to researchers. Oral histories, then, can provide a rich source of information that might otherwise be undocumented or inaccessible. Redman’s research interests include comparative educational reform efforts in math and science; the National Science Foundation and its efforts in mathematics and science education reform; federal and local education policy and practice; rhetorical strategies used in framing debates on public understanding of science and mathematics; and applications of quantitative and statistical methods. Redman is completing a dissertation on federal involvement in K-12 mathematics education reform in the 20th century U.S.

Samuel J. Redman is an Academic Specialist at the Regional Oral History Office (ROHO). At ROHO, he works on several oral history projects, including; the Rosie the Riveter / WWII American Homefront oral history project and the Japanese American Confinement Sites oral history project. Prior to his arrival at UC Berkeley, Redman worked for the Field Museum of Natural History, Science Museum of Minnesota, and Colorado History Museum. His essays and reviews on oral history have appeared in theOral History Review, Western History Quarterly, and the New York Times. 

Jess Rigelhaupt is Assistant Professor of History and American Studies at the University of Mary Washington (UMW). As an Academic Specialist at ROHO he worked on numerous projects, including the Rosie the Riveter/World War II Homefront Oral History Project, the SFMOMA Oral History Project, the Oakland Army Base Oral History Project, and the Mount Shasta Peace Mural Oral History Project. At UMW he has supervised two oral history projects. One focused on James Farmer's teaching and broader contributions to UMW and the other documented the founding of Women's and Gender Studies at the university. He received his PhD in American Culture from the University of Michigan. Rigelhaupt is writing a book on mid-twentieth century civil rights movements, labor unions, progressive coalitions, and politics in the San Francisco Bay Area.