Joel Wurl
Joel Wurl is a Sr. Program Officer in the Division of Preservation & Access, National Endowment for the Humanities, where he coordinates the agency’s Humanities Collections and Reference Resources program. Prior to joining NEH in October, 2006, he worked for 20 years with the Immigration History Research Center ending there as Head of Research Collections and Associate Director. During that tenure, he was a consultant and advisor for several immigration and ethnic history-related projects undertaken by museums, historical societies, archives, and community organizations locally and beyond. From 2007-13, Wurl also served as Adjunct Instructor in the Applied History program at George Mason University. He also served on the council and executive committee of the Society of American Archivists and was named a Distinguished Fellow of SAA in 2007. Wurl’s publications have appeared in public history and immigration/ethnic history journals, and he is general editor for “North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries, and Oral Histories,” an online publication of Alexander St. Press.
