Roger M. Dahl received a BA in History from Lewis & Clark College, Portland, OR and a Masters in History with an archival sequence from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. In December 2025 Roger M. Dahl retired from the National Bahá’í Archives, United States, as archivist emeritus. During his service at the National Bahá’í Archives, Mr. Dahl was a member of the Society of American Archivists, Academy of Certified Archivists, Midwest Archives
Conference and the Chicago Area Archivists. Mr. Dahl also presented two papers at conferences of the Midwest Archives conference.
Mr. Dahl is the author of “A History of the Kenosha Bahá’í Community, 1897-1980” in Community Histories (Kalimat Press, 1992), “Three Teaching Methods Used during the First
Seven-Year Plan” in The Journal of Bahá’í Studies, Volume 5, Number 3 and “American Bahá’í Publishing: 1896-1922” in World Order, Volume 29, Number 3, Spring 1998.
2026 Courses
Introduction to Archives, Dec. 7 – Feb. 28, 2027 with Ailsa Hedley Leftwich, Susan Rishworth, Damon McGhee, and Jane Cadwalader