Frontline Stories & Untold Histories: Melissa Ziobro Director of Public History Monmouth University

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🗓️ 29 April 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Melissa Ziobro began her career as a civilian historian, archivist, and curator for the US Army in 2004 prior to returning to her alma mater, Monmouth University, to teach full-time. She has taught over a dozen different courses, including Intro to Public History; Oral History; Museums and Archives Management Basics; NJ History; and the Vietnam War. In August of 2023, she became curator of the University's Bruce Springsteen Archives & Center for American Music, after having worked with the Center for many years in her faculty role (to include curating the Center’s first traveling exhibit, Springsteen: His Hometown, with the Monmouth County Historical Association in 2019). Her most recent publications include Fort Monmouth: The US Army’s House of Magic (2024) and The Battlin' Bastards of Bravo: Bravo Company, 1/506th, 101st Airborne, in Vietnam and Beyond (2025).

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1:50.5	guest here, okay, Melissa's book in our book club. But I would like to introduce Melissa
1:57.1	Zibro. And I've been practicing your name.
2:00.6	You practice so much.
2:03.1	Zerbo.
2:04.0	Zio bro.
2:05.0	We're going to say it.
2:06.9	The rock star, Melissa.
2:08.1	Welcome to our show.
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