Erica Fugger is an oral historian and peace educator based in the New York City area. As the archivist of the Fellowship of Reconciliation-USA, she oversees the preservation of the organization’s historical records and collaborates with the Swarthmore Peace Collection on making FOR’s archives further accessible to the public.

Erica previously managed Columbia University’s Center for Oral History Archives and Oral History MA program, and served as an Alliance for Historical Dialogue and Accountability Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Human Rights. She is a co-founder of the Documenting Peace research collaborative and directed Washington College’s World War II public memory program, the National Home Front Project.

Erica’s studies of war and its infinite reverberations has led her to work on amplifying voices of peace across communities and generations. She is currently a PhD Candidate in Rutgers University-Newark’s American Studies program, where she researches how anti-war coalitions educate and mobilize the public.

To learn more about conducting research in FOR’s public archives, please visit the Swarthmore Peace Collection. For inquiries related to FOR-USA’s history, please contact gro.asurofobfsctd@sevihcra.