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Company Name

Historia|Research

Website(s)

Home page: http://www.historiaresearch.com/
Blog: http://www.historiaresearch.com/home

Social Media

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/historiaresearch

Email (Alternate)

jwycoff@historiaresearch.com

Address 1

47 W. Polk Street, #100-150

City

Chicago

State

Illinois

ZIP

60605

Phone (Office)

312-818-8849

Phone (Mobile)

312-818-8849

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Summary

Need a narrative? Historical perspective? Published writer with business know-how? Innovative, results-oriented researcher with 20+ years success writing business documents, public reports, and personal musings.

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Joseph H. Wycoff, Ph.D. in History with an emphasis on U.S. business and consumer history, offers over twenty years of professional experience in the private and public sectors. He has expertise in crafting narratives to tell company histories, executive biographies, or consumer journeys, as well as extensive experience with a variety of research methodologies ranging from archival research to quantitative studies using U.S. Census and Current Population Survey sample data. During the dot.com boom of the late 1990s, he worked as a market research vendor in support of dozens of IT and consumer goods companies from Seattle to San Francisco. In the early 2000s, Joe transitioned to higher education research to support initiatives for many facets of college administration and student learning. His early successes include statewide research and reporting for the Washington State Governor’s Task Force on Virtual Education, resulting in the Digital Learning Commons (now part of the Alternative Learning Department in the Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction for the State of Washington). During his career as a professional and Cabinet-level administrator, he worked for the University of Washington, a private non-profit college in New York, and a community college in Illinois. As an institutional researcher, he brings extensive knowledge of the inner workings of colleges and the public databases on higher education maintained by state and federal governments. Joe now owns a consulting firm that specializes in institutional effectiveness and improvement for higher education administration. He maintains a weekly newsletter and blog on current issues confronting university administrators, college graduates, and employers at the local level to the global context. Joe recently authored and published two works on disparate subjects and in different genres. The first, a non-fiction history of college and university administration in America titled “Outsourcing Student Success,” examines the rise and decline of scientific methods in the scholarship on higher education management. In addition, he published a work of historical fiction on an ancient and democratic civilization (albeit imaginary) on the brink of collapse after centuries of expansion and prosperity. If seeking a writer whose subject matter has ranged from contemporary consumer preferences for jarred pickles to the pathbreaking family strategies of working mothers between 1920 and 1950, or from the organizational evolution of U.S. manufacturer associations during the nineteenth century to the potential role of data science for college student success during the twenty-first century, Joe has the rare combination of academic training and personal experiences to make known and bring credit to your unique story.

Education

Ph.D. (History), University of Washington
M.A. (History), Arizona State University
B.S. (History), Arizona State University

Experience

> 20 years

Expertise

Business
Education
Government | Public affairs
Science | Technology

Specialty

Articles
Biography | Memoir
Grants
Reports
Research | Fact checking
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Joseph Wycoff

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