Skip to main content Dr. Ruby Oram
- Asst Professor of Practice at History, College of Liberal Arts
Service Activities
Ongoing
- Coordinator / Organizer, History Steward Program of the Texas Historical Commission.
December 2024 - Present.
- Graduate Advisor, Public History Internship Coordinator.
September 2021 - Present.
- Member, Public History Committee.
August 2020 - Present.
2025
- Member, Search Committee: Tenure-Track Public History and Documentary Film.
May 2025 - November 2025.
- Member, San Bernard National Historic District Project.
March 2024 - July 2025.
- Organizer, San Bernard Street Community Day.
June 2025.
- Member, Search Committee: Tenure-Track Museum Studies and History.
September 2024 - April 2025.
- Volunteer, Preservation Austin's Annual Historic Homes Tour.
April 2023 - April 2025.
2023
- Organizer, Public History Day.
April 2023 - 2023.
- Adjudicator, Merit Awards Jury, Preservation Austin.
August 2023 - November 2023.
- Member, Applied Humanities PhD Planning Committee.
April 2023 - May 2023.
- Organizer, Student Event: Public Engagement, Art, and Humanities for All.
April 2023.
2022
- Reviewer / Referee, Journal of Public History.
December 2022.
- Member, Chicago Vocational School Restoration Project.
March 2020 - December 2022.
- Reviewer / Referee, New York History Journal.
November 2022.
- Board Member, Pioneer Farms.
March 6, 2021 - November 2022.
- Volunteer, Calaboose African American History Museum.
August 2022.
- Reviewer / Referee, Writing Public Histories: Intersections in Theory and Practice (Textbook - Bloomsbury Press).
July 2022.
- Organizer, Hayden Springs Oral History Workshop.
May 2022.
2021
- Participant, Harvey Miller Day of Service, Dunbar Heritage Association.
November 2021.
- Member, Ad Hoc Committee on Promotion Standards for Professors of Practice.
September 2020 - March 2021.
- Reviewer / Referee, A Girl Can Do: Recognizing and Representing Girlhood (Anthology - Vernon Press).
December 2020 - February 2021.
