Dr. Barry A. Lanman is the Director of the Martha Ross Center for Oral History and a professor at the University of Maryland Baltimore County.  Concurrently, he serves as the historian for the Distinguished Flying Cross Society.  Barry A. Lanman received his doctorate from Temple University and has taught United States history, social science courses and oral history at various levels from middle school to graduate school for more than thirty years.     

In conjunction with the Discovery Channel, Dr. Lanman wrote an educational component for the television series The Promised Land.  Along with numerous articles, his publications include:

• Baltimore County: Celebrating a Legacy 1659-2009, published by the Historical Society of Baltimore County, April 2009. 
• Halethorpe Heritage:  A Story of a Maryland Community, published by The Halethorpe Improvement Association, Halethorpe Heritage Committee, 2006.
• Preparing the Next Generation of Oral Historians: An Anthology of Oral History Education, written and edited by Dr. Barry A. Lanman and Dr. Laura Wendling, published by AltaMira Press, 2006.
• Maryland Aloft: A Celebration of Aviators, Airfields and Aerospace, co-authored by 

Edmund Preston, Barry A. Lanman and Jack Breihan, published by the Maryland Historical Trust Press, 2003. 

Dr. Lanman is a founder and a past-president of Oral History in the Mid-Atlantic Region (OHMAR) and served as the first chair of the Oral History Association’s Committee on Education.  He is also a founder and past-director of the Consortium of Oral History Educators.  The Former Members of Congress named Dr. Lanman as its Educator-Historian for 1984.  He has also received the Judith Ruchkin Research Award and OHMAR’s Forrest C. Pogue Award for significant contributions to the field of oral history.