Upstarts and usurpers beware: Don't do this at work

Just so it's perfectly clear and the record is set straight, I founded the oral history project . The project started in 2000, not in 2002, and the first public announcement about the project was made in May 2001, although some public awareness of it already existed earlier than that. Two research data collections were completed on the oral history project before the lifestories project was ever even embarked upon. The first data collection was a study of Ukrainian perspectives on parenting, and the second was a videotaped collection of interviews with Ukrainian leaders in the province.

Also, I proposed the lifestories project to the college in 2001, before any other researchers later involved in the project were ever employed there. In 2002, other associated researcher(s) asked me to participate in the oral history project because, allegedly, of a high level of interest in my work on oral history. I let other(s )participate in the project by co-facilitating on the project I had previously proposed. So, no matter how far around the globe other researchers go, no matter how many newsletters are published, no matter how many merit increments anyone makes off of my original data and work, I always will be the founder of the original oral history project.

I suppose I should be publishing this notice and correction in an academic journal, not just on a blog.