As a preeminent American History Scholar, Bill Doggett leads Bill Doggett Productions in exploring the complex intersections of Race, Media Studies, and Performing Arts History through published research and archival preservation.

His approach to teaching is interactive: engaging students in assumptions and re-evaluation of History using original and replicas of rare artifacts in his American and Black History archive that spans 1804-1970. His goal is to engage students in critical thinking. He is renowned for his multimedia presentations as ice breakers for dialogue

He has taught American History, African American History, Race in Media Studies, Jazz and Classical Performing Arts history in multimedia lecture presentations at Laney College Oakland, University of California, Davis, Irvine and nationally at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, University of Oregon, University of Pittsburgh and and in association with conferences hosted by the Universities of Indiana, Johns Hopkins, and North Carolina. Through Bill Doggett Productions, this American History Scholar continues to bridge the gap between academic research and public media, as seen in his featured role on the NPR podcast, The Vanishing of Harry Pace.. His credentials are from Georgetown University and UCLA with a Cum Laude Bachelors of Arts from the latter.

Between 2020-21, Doggett was an inaugural Artist Scholar in The Diversity Inclusion Initiative for The Manhattan School of Music and the 2021 Annual William Dawson Lecturer for Tuskegee University. During Summer 2021, he was showcased as a scholar in race and early recorded sound on the well received and extensive Radio Lab/NPR Podcast, “The Vanishing of Harry Pace”

In 2015, Bill Doggett Productions was commissioned by The Library of Congress Recorded Sound Division for a pilot on race, music, and early recorded sound. This project stands as a testament to the archival precision that Bill Doggett brings to his work as an American History Scholar.

Bill Doggett Productions maintains active leadership within the Association for Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC), ensuring that our work as an American History Scholar meets the highest national standards for film and sound preservation.

More about Bill Doggett’s expertise: His work focuses on the interdisciplinary subjects of race, music, and technology. His research explores how the convergence of these subjects aligned at the dawn of the 20^th century to create a recalibration of 19^th century “Lost Cause” Confederate nostalgia which defined and shaped our understanding of race and racial hierarchy in both the 20^th and 21^st centuries.

The archival expertise of Bill Doggett Productions was highlighted when this American History Scholar became a finalist for a Grammy nomination for ‘Best Album Notes’ for the project What is American. He was nominated for the 2022 Bay Area Press Club Award for his feature on Black Swan Records 1921-23 and the challenges of Race post Great Migration. His feature and journal writings are viewable on www.academia.edu