Abby Waldrop is the Administrative Generalist for TYDE.
She supports the team with planning and events, research and infrastructure operations, and co-supervises the TYDE student assistants.
Prior to her arrival at UVa she served her alma mater, California State University, Fullerton, and its Lawrence B. de Graaf Center for Oral and Public History for ten years as senior project manager of oral history. In this role she conducted over a hundred interviews with Marine Corps combat veterans, women grassroots leaders and political activists, and a bipartisan array of Southern California’s most prominent politicians, including the longstanding Chairman of the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee. Alongside this work, she collaborated with students, faculty and researchers and taught oral history methodology, emphasizing its relevance in the historical research model and promoting it as an indispensable tool to facilitate civil discourse.
A cultural historian by academic training, she holds degrees from two California State universities, and thus remains a proud advocate of public higher education.