Wesley Hogan, Research Professor of the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute

Please note: Wesley has left the "MFA in Experimental and Documentary Arts" group at Duke University; some info here might not be up to date.

Wesley Hogan is a Research Professor at the Franklin Humanities Institute and History. Between 2003-2013, she taught at Virginia State University, where she worked with the Algebra Project and the Young People’s Project. Between 2013-2021, she served as Director of the Center for Documentary Studies. She writes and teaches the history of youth social movements, human rights, documentary, and oral history. Her most recent book, On the Freedom Side, draws a portrait of young people organizing in the spirit of Ella Baker since 1960. In July 2021, a book she and Paul Ortiz have co-edited will be released, People Power: History, Organizing, and Larry Goodwyn’s Democratic Vision in the Twenty-First Century.  She co-facilitates a partnership between the SNCC Legacy Project and Duke, The SNCC Digital Gateway, whose purpose is to bring the grassroots stories of the civil rights movement to a much wider public through a web portal, K12 initiative, and set of critical oral histories.   

Contact Info:

Office Location:	114 S Buchanan Blvd Bay 5, Box 90403, Durham, NC 27708
Office Phone:	(919) 660-3610
Email Address:

Teaching (Spring 2024):

• HLTHPOL 396T.02, BASS CONNECTION HEALTH POLICY Synopsis

  Reuben-Coo 133, M 03:05 PM-05:35 PM

• HISTORY 515S.01, ORAL HISTORY METHODS Synopsis

  Class Bldg 125, Th 10:05 AM-12:35 PM

  (also cross-listed as DOCST 515S.01)

• DOCST 179FS.01, YOUTH JUSTICE MOVEMENTS Synopsis

  West Duke 101, TuTh 03:05 PM-04:20 PM

  (also cross-listed as ETHICS 179FS.01, PUBPOL 189FS.01)

• HLTHPOL 395T.09, BASS CONNECTION HEALTH POLICY Synopsis

  Reuben-Coo 133, M 12:00 PM-02:30 PM

• HLTHPOL 795T.09, BASS CONNECTION HEALTH POLIC Synopsis

  Perkins 072, M 12:00 PM-02:30 PM

Education:

Ph.D.

Duke University

2000

Keywords:

Oral history--Methodology • Social change--United States--History--20th century • Social movements • Womens health services • Youth movements

Recent Publications   (More Publications)

1. Hogan, W; Mason-Hogans, D; Augusto, G, Learning within freedom movements: using critical oral history methodology, in Handbook of Research Methods and Applications for Social Movements, edited by Cox, L; Szolucha, A; Arribas Lozano, A; Chattopadhyay, S (January, 2024), pp. 128-143, Edward Elgar Publishing, ISBN 9781803922010  [abs]
2. Augusto, G; Hogan, W; Mason-Hogans, D, Adapting Critical Oral History Methodology to Freedom Movement Studies, The Oral History Review, vol. 49 no. 2 (July, 2022), pp. 251-282, Informa UK Limited [doi]
3. Ramanujam, N, Utilization and Perceptions of a Novel Cervical Visualization Tool, The Callascope, For Home-Based Self-Cervical Examinations, JWHG, vol. 8 no. 3 (December, 2021), pp. 1-24, JScholar [doi]
4. Hogan, WC; Ortiz, P, People Power History, Organizing, and Larry Goodwyn's Democratic Vision in the Twenty-First Century (July, 2021), pp. 274 pages, ISBN 9780813068473  [abs]
5. Cox, C; Forner, K; Gartrell, J; Hogan, W; Lawson, J; Moore, I; Nelson, N, Building and transferring movement informational wealth: The sncc digital gateway, Journal of African American History, vol. 105 no. 4 (September, 2020), pp. 626-647 [doi]  [abs]