Meet Our Team
Homefront Heroines: the WAVES of Word War II is produced by TaylorCatProductions with generous financial assistance from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Ohio Humanities Council, and our supporters on Kickstarter.
Kathleen M. Ryan is the project’s director and David Staton is the producer.
Meet Our Team
Our Production Crew
Production and Research Assistants
Kelsey Agnosos, Gwendolyn Cardigan, Anthony Collebusco, Jackson Deakins, Elaine Cromie, Jonathan Dick, Allyce Farison, Taylor Frank, Samantha Gitner, Jennifer Grothe, Laura Hampton, Thomasina Jordan, Kathleen Lawson, Jennifer Monroe, KeKe Mullins, Sofia Pena y Lillo, Hannah Prince, Shea Sahm, Sydney Schrank, Ben Shumate, Andy Sturt, Caitlin Sullivan, Caitlin Van Mol
Original Music
Andy Forsberg
Archival Music
Join the WAVES composed by Johnny Mercer (ASCAP) and performed by U.S. Navy WAVES
Uncle Sam Said composed and performed by Josh White
WAVES of the Navy composed by the U.S. Navy Marching Band and performed/arranged by Andy Forsberg
Voices
Michael Huntsberger, Tracey Ilene Miller, Rebecca Toews
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Academic Advisors
D’Ann Campbell, Professor of History, Culver-Stockton College
Dassa Carvey, former president, WAVES National
Sherna Berger Gluck, former director of the Oral History Program, California State University Long Beach
Nickoal Eichman, University of Colorado Boulder
Beth Ann Koelesch, Women Veterans History Project, University of North Carolina Greensboro
Leighton C. Peterson, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Miami University
Alan M. Winkler, Professor of History, Miami University
We’d also like to give a special thank you to the people who generously agreed to share their expertise as interviewees for this project.
Regina T. Akers, staff historian, Naval History and Heritage Command
D’Ann Campbell, Professor of History, Culver-Stockton College
Alice Kessler-Harris,R. Gordon Hoxie Professor of American History in Honor of Dwight D. Eisenhower, Columbia University
Leisa D. Meyer, Chair of the History Department and Associate Professor of American Studies and History, William and Mary College
Michael Solomon, Professor of Marketing, St. Joseph’s University
Alan M. Winkler, Professor of History, Miami University
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Photo and Film Sources
We were honored that physical and virtual archives shared for many of the films and photographs that were part of this project.We are also indebted to several oral history collections.
American Folklife Center
Betty H. Carter Women Veteran’s Historical Project UNC Greensboro
Library of Congress
Mount Holyoke Archives and Special Collections
NAS Pensacola
National Archives
Naval Aviation Museum
Naval History and Heritage Command
Oral History Archives at Columbia University
Paramount Pictures/NBC Universal
Schlesinger Library Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
Smith College Archives
University of Northern Iowa Archives
U.S. Coast Guard History Program Station
USS Missouri Memorial
Wellesley College Archives and Special Collections
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