NCPH Executive Office Staff 

Executive Director: John Dichtl

Program Director: Sarah Koeppel  

Membership Assistant: Angenita Childs 

Graduate Intern: Steve Christopherson 
 

NCPH Executive Office
327 Cavanaugh Hall - IUPUI
425 University Blvd.
Indianapolis, IN 46202
Tel: (317) 274-2716; Fax: (317) 278-5230; ncph@iupui.edu
 


The Public Historian
 Editorial Staff
Contact Information
Editor: Randolph Bergstrom
 
Managing Editor: Lindsey Reed
 
Contributing Senior Editors: Shelley Bookspan & Otis Graham, Jr.

Review Editor: Lee Simpson
 
Assistant Review Editor: Paul J. P. Sandul
 
Exhibit Review Editor: Jo Blatti, Old Independence Regional Museum

Film and Electronic Media Review Editor: Gerald Herman,
Northeastern University

Oral History Editor: Teresa Barnett, Oral History Program, UCLA

Editorial Assistants: David Lemon and Christine Stokes
 
The Public Historian
Department of History
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9410
 

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
John Dichtl brings to NCPH many years of experience working to promote the field of history and interconnect a wide variety of historians and others employed in the historical community. From 1992 to 2005 he served in various capacities at the Organization of American Historians, where he helped to lead the organization during a period of extensive growth in membership, revenue, and programmatic reach. Dichtl held positions ranging from deputy executive director for six years to interim and acting executive director as well as assistant director and assistant editor of the newsletter. He went to the OAH, in Bloomington, Indiana, from Capitol Hill, where he worked for two years as an editor for the United States Senate Judiciary Committee. Dichtl received his Ph.D. (2000) and M.A. (1993) in American history from Indiana University and is a graduate of Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota, where he earned a B.A. in European and World history. He is the author of, Frontiers of Faith: Bringing Catholicism to the West in the Early Republic (University Press of Kentucky, 2008).
 

PROGRAM DIRECTOR
Sarah Koeppel joined the NCPH staff in June 2006. She has worked in nonprofits, universities, and field archaeology for more than five years. Before coming to NCPH, she served as Director of Indiana Campus Compact’s AmeriCorps program, the Indiana Reading Corps. In this capacity, she worked with service-learning practitioners, college students, community members, and AmeriCorps members in the largest youth-literacy program in the state.

Prior to Indiana Campus Compact, Sarah served as an AmeriCorps VISTA member in Blanding, Utah. During her year of service, she helped promote archaeological preservation and education to San Juan County 4th grade students and served as coordinator of the Utah Archaeological Site Stewardship Program.

Sarah earned a B.A. in Anthropology with a concentration in Archaeology and History from Auburn University in 2000 and a M.A. in Anthropology with a concentration in Public Archaeology from Western Michigan University in 2006.
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MEMBERSHIP ASSISTANT
Angenita Childs joined NCPH in May 2008 as the Membership Assistant.  She comes from a background of human service non-profit organizations, varying from community education to assisting young adults with mental illnesses.  Angenita is pursuing her B.A. degree in English, concentration on Creative Writing, and a minor in Media and Communications at IUPUI.
  

Contact Angenita 


 

GRADUATE INTERN

Steve Christopherson, a first-year student in the MA public history program at IUPUI, will intern in the NCPH office for 2008-2009.  Steve will assist with the annual meeting, be the liaison to the Graduate Student Ad Hoc Committee, and help with a variety of other research, marketing, web, and development work.  He graduated from Butler University in May 2008, receiving a BA in history with high honors, and has worked in various aspects of public history through jobs and internships at Conner Prairie in Fishers, IN and the Morris-Butler House in downtown Indianapolis.
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