Joseph M. Turrini is an assistant professor in the Library and Information Science Program at Wayne State University. Turrini coordinates the Archival Administration Program, advises students in the archival concentration, and teaches a number of archival courses, including Archival Administration, Oral History and the Administration of Historical Agencies.

Turrini served as an assistant professor and the archival studies program officer in the History Department at Auburn University between 2005 and 2007. Prior to teaching, he held a number of archival and public history positions, including assistant archivist at The American Catholic History Research Center and University Archives at The Catholic University of America, records analyst at the United Federation of Teachers Archives and Records Center, assistant curator at the Detroit Historical Museum, and on a number of archival projects at the Walter P. Reuther Library of Labor History.

He has published a number of articles on labor, sport, and archival history, and archival education, in Labor History, Journal of Sport History, Sport History Review, American Archivist, Michigan History, and Perspectives.

Coordinator of the Archival Administration Certificate Program

Ph.D., History, Wayne State University, 2004

M.A., History, Wayne State University, 1993

Graduate Certificate, Archival Administration, Wayne State University, 1993

B.A., History, San Francisco State University, 1991

Archival Administration, Oral History, Archival History, American labor history, American sport history

“‘Ours was the best of rivalries’: Rafer Johnson, CK Yang and the 1960 Olympic Decathlon,” (forthcoming in, eds., David Wiggins and R. Pierre Rodgers, Sport Rivalries: Traditions of Meaning and Representation in American Culture, University of Arkansas Press)

The End of Amateurism in American Track and Field. (forthcoming, University of Illinois Press, Sport and Society Series)

Book review, Mike Jernigan, Auburn Man: The Life and Times of George Petrie, in Alabama Review 62:1 (January 2009): 67-69.

"The Historical Profession and Archival Education," Perspectives (May 2007): 47-49. 

“Catholic Social Action at Work: A Brief History of the Labor Collection at the Catholic University of America,” American Archivist 68:1(Spring/Summer 2005): 130-151.