Wesley Hogan
Instructor
Office
1317 W. Pettigrew St. L303
Phone
(919) 660-3610
Wesley Hogan teaches at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, and is a research professor at the university’s Franklin Humanities Institute and Department of History. She was director of the Center for Documentary Studies from 2013–2021. She writes and teaches the history of youth social movements, human rights, documentary, and oral history. Between 2004-2008, she was active with the project bringing together the Algebra Project, the Young People’s Project and the Petersburg City Public Schools, and coordinated an oral history project of the civil rights movement in Petersburg. She was the co-director of the Institute for the Study of Race Relations at Virginia State University from 2006-2009. Her most recent book, On the Freedom Side, draws a portrait of young people organizing in the spirit of Ella Baker since 1960. 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.
