Bill Doggett is a published American History scholar with a specialization in Race, Media Studies and Performing Arts History.

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 in association with conferences hosted by the Universities of Indiana, John Hopkins, Baltimore and North Carolina, Chapel Hill. 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, he was commissioned by The Library of Congress Recorded Sound Division for a Pilot on race, music and early recorded sound for The National Jukebox.

Mr. Doggett is a member of ARSC, The Association for Recorded Sound Collections, the nation’s signature leadership organization for sound, film and radio collections of major institutions and universities

Bill Doggett’s expertise is in 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.

His American History writing for the 2023 Grammy nominated concept cd “What is American” was a finalist for a 2023 Grammy nomination in the category of “Best Album Notes”. 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