Many people have contributed and are contributing to making the Wyoming Valley History
Project a reality. Here are some of those who played a major role in creating the
project and in keeping it alive.
Dr. John Hepp
Dr. John Hepp teaches courses at Wilkes University on U.S. and world history that
examine the period 1850 to the present. His research interests center on the effects
of technological and economic change on everyday urban life from about 1800 to the
present. Hepp is a member of the Council of the Pennsylvania Historical Association
and the editor of the PHA's History Studies Series. He is a member of the Editorial
Board of the Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography.
Dr. Chad Stanley
Dr. Chad Stanley received his PhD from the University of Connecticut in 2005, and
joined the Wilkes University faculty that same year. As an Associate Professor of
English at Wilkes, he teaches courses in Modern British and American literature, drama,
and composition. He is also the Director of the Writing Center and supervises the
Wilkes Writing Mentor Program. His most specific research interest is in the intersection
of military history and literature. He began work on the Wyoming Valley History Project
in the spring of 2011.
Dr. Stine, associate professor and chair of the Communication Studies Department,
had a distinguished career in broadcasting before coming to Wilkes, where he oversees
the university’s television studio and radio station, WCLH-FM. Stine, along with Dr.
Hepp, initiated the Wyoming Valley Oral History Project in 2008. The two have supervised
student-produced public history documentaries since 2002. He is a member of the national
Oral History Association.
Dr. Winkler is anthropologist with an undergraduate degree in sociology and religion.
She has taught at the University of Pittsburgh, Oregon State University, La Suerte
Biological Field Station (Costa Rica), Ometepe Biological Field Station (Nicaragua),
with Amizade Service Learning Group at West Virginia University, and on Semester at
Sea. She has received awards from her undergraduate alma mater and Rotary International
for her projects in Tanzania and career successes.
