{"id":40802288702,"date":"2025-04-30T16:00:25","date_gmt":"2025-04-30T20:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/?p=40802288702"},"modified":"2025-05-01T10:31:05","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T14:31:05","slug":"prof-ziobro-featured-on-sofrep-radio-podcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/prof-ziobro-featured-on-sofrep-radio-podcast\/","title":{"rendered":"Prof. Ziobro Featured on &#8216;SOFREP Radio&#8217; Podcast"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Melissa Ziobro, curator for the Bruce Springsteen Archives &amp; Center for American Music and director of public history at Monmouth University, was interviewed on the SOFREP Radio podcast, for the episode, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/episode\/3NKZ7qe6jTQvITtdmm6iW7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Frontline Stories &amp; Untold Histories: Melissa Ziobro Director of Public History Monmouth University<\/a>.&#8221; SOFREP (Special Operations Forces Report) was inspired by the military\u2019s use of acronyms in formal communication traffic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ziobro began her career as a civilian historian, archivist and curator for the U.S. Army in 2004 before returning to her alma mater, Monmouth University, to teach full time. She has taught more than a dozen courses, including Intro to Public History; Oral History; Museums and Archives Management Basics; New Jersey History; and the Vietnam War.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In August 2023, she became curator of the university\u2019s Bruce Springsteen Archives &amp; Center for American Music, after years of faculty collaboration with the center. In 2019, she co-curated its first traveling exhibit, \u201cSpringsteen: His Hometown,\u201d with the Monmouth County Historical Association. Her recent publications include \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Fort-Monmouth-Armys-House-Magic\/dp\/1955041229\">Fort Monmouth: The U.S. Army\u2019s House of Magic<\/a>\u201d (2024) and \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Battlin-Bastards-Bravo-Company-Airborne-ebook\/dp\/B0DXWHK12C?ref_=ast_author_dp\">The Battlin&#8217; Bastards of Bravo: Bravo Company, 1\/506th, 101st Airborne, in Vietnam and Beyond<\/a>\u201d (2025).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/episode\/3NKZ7qe6jTQvITtdmm6iW7\">Listen to the episode on spotify<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Melissa Ziobro, curator for the Bruce Springsteen Archives &amp; Center for American Music and director of public history at Monmouth University, was interviewed on the SOFREP Radio podcast, for the episode, &#8220;Frontline Stories &amp; Untold Histories: Melissa Ziobro Director of Public History Monmouth University.&#8221; SOFREP (Special Operations Forces Report) was inspired by the military\u2019s use [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":282,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[218,804,423],"tags":[1742,4186,4172],"person":[567],"audience":[11,8,29],"school":[95,26],"program":[],"class_list":["post-40802288702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accomplished-alumni","category-bruce-springsteen-archives-and-center-for-american-music","category-faculty-perspectives","tag-bsacam","tag-fort-monmouth","tag-history","person-mziobro","audience-current-student","audience-faculty","audience-media","school-history-anthropology","school-school-of-humanities-and-social-sciences"],"squareimage":{"id":40802279428,"rendered":"<img width=\"526\" height=\"526\" style=\"object-position: 49.93% 36.925%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2024\/01\/Meissa-Ziobro_sq.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"Springsteen Archives curator and specialist prof. 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