Owen Rogers is a Liaison Specialist for the Library of Congress Veterans History Project. He currently serves as the Vice President of the Oral History in the Mid-Atlantic Region Professional Association, with prior service as Communications Director and At-Large Board Member, and he actively supports the National Council on Public History as a member of their Government Historians subcommittee. Rogers holds a Public History Master of Arts degree from Central Connecticut State University and a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Connecticut. 

Rogers advances the field of Public History through practices, projects, and pedagogy that create inclusive spaces within traditional archives. Since 2012, his values and abilities have expanded the Library’s Veterans History Project, a user-sourced archive of veterans’ oral histories, manuscripts, and media. His oral history project experience includes CT Humanities’ Connecticut History Online, the Central Connecticut State University Veterans History Project, the Yale University-New Haven Preservation Trust’s New Haven Oral History Project, and the D.C. Public Library People’s Archive. Rogers also graduated from the Library’s Leadership Development Program, a 12-month competency-based training program for employees from diverse backgrounds, culminating in a supervisory detail at the Congressional Research Service’s Knowledge Services Group.

Awards and Achievements

2023: Chaired OHMAR conference at Science History Institute, Philadelphia, PA

2021: Guest lecturer at George Washington University on COVID oral history recording best practices.

2019-2020: Graduated from the Library of Congress Leadership Development Program, including a supervisory detail at the Congressional Research Service.

2018: “On the Spot” Library of Congress performance award for innovative and breakthrough social media collaboration and training programs for the Department of Veterans Affairs.

2018: Invited lecturer at "The VHP Lab Experiment" THATCamp pre-conference module at the NCPH 2018 annual meeting.

2018: Co-chaired “Vulnerable Voices: Power and Privilege in Oral History” OHMAR conference at American University

2017: “On the Spot” Library of Congress performance award for curating the LGBTQ+ "Military Life" section of the Library of Congress "Pride in the Library" pop-up exhibit and complementary oral history workshop.