[447] Norkunas Captures History One Person's Story At A Time

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: April 29, 2010
EDITORIAL CONTACT: Gina Logue, 615-898-5081, or WMOT-FM, 615-898-2800

NORKUNAS CAPTURES HISTORY ONE PERSON’S STORY AT A TIME
Historian of Women and Minority Voices and More on “MTSU on the Record”

(MURFREESBORO) – Dr. Martha Norkunas, professor of history at MTSU, will talk about her career as an oral historian at 8 a.m. this Sunday, May 2, on “MTSU on the Record” with host Gina Logue on WMOT-FM (89.5 and wmot.org).
In 1999, Norkunas began the Project in Interpreting the Texas Past (ITP to research, interpret and present the histories of women and minority communities. She has worked with museums, historic sites and nonprofits across the country on issues of memory, identity, gender and the representation of minority voices.
Norkunas also has been involved in a number of oral history projects on industrial and labor history, immigration, racial identity and gender.
To hear last week’s interview with Dr. Sean Foley on the Arab Gulf states, go to http://frank.mtsu.edu/~proffice/podcast2010.html and click on “April 25, 2010.” Contact Logue at 615-898-5081 or WMOT-FM at 615-898-2800.


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