Steven Sielaff

During the last ten years Steven has held positions at Baylor ranging from graduate assistant to senior lecturer, working on various web-based and multimedia projects, including For the Greater Good: Philanthropy in Waco, the Texas Holocaust and Genocide Commission's Texas Liberators & Survivors of Genocide projects, and War Comes to Waco, A WWI digital exhibit. Steven has also conducted many institutional oral histories, including series on both the Dr Pepper Museum and Baylor's Mayborn Museum Complex, as well as a forty-interview series on the history of Baylor University. In his supervisory role he oversees every technical aspect of processing, preserving, and disseminating Baylor's oral history collection of over 7000 interviews. He also directs the digitization of BUIOH's analog collection and spearheads the migration of transcripts and audio files to the institute's searchable online database powered by Quartex. He is currently Editor-in-Chief of the Texas Oral History Association's annual journal, Sound Historian, is Managing Editor for the H-OralHist listserv, and as of January 1, 2023, Assistant Director of the Oral History Association, whose institutional headquarters is now housed at Baylor University.