Tuesday 9-15-15 Speakers

Dr. Graham has extensive experience in the library and museum world. Since 2010, he has directed the Church History Museum in Salt Lake City, UT. He spearheaded the development and redesign of the museum’s principal history exhibit, which included several significant multi-media components.

Prior to that, Dr. Graham served as the Director of the McCracken Research Library at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West in Cody, WY. As Director, he orchestrated the digitization of some of the library’s most important archival collections; oversaw the physical renovation of the Library’s public spaces; managed the Center’s fellowship program; and launched a documentary editing project, The Papers of William F. Cody.

Prior to his work in the public history field, Dr. Graham was a member of the history faculty at California State University, San Bernardino, where he taught undergraduate and graduate courses in American political and legal and constitutional history. He received a Ph.D. in American history from Brown University, and holds a B.A. and an M.A. from Brigham Young University in English and American studies, respectively. He is the author of To Bring Law Home: The Federal Judiciary in Early National Rhode Island (Northern Illinois University Press, 2010).

Dr. Graham’s outstanding background leading both archival and museum institutions will benefit the Truman Library and the National Archives. Please join me in welcoming him to the National Archives.