COVID-19 Oral History Resources
We’ve compiled many of the sources, oral history projects, and guidelines and considerations for interviewing amid COVID-19 recommended by the authors of the articles in OHR’s COVID-19 Special Section, published in issue 47.2. Expand any category to view and click on the selections. We also welcome your suggestions for further resources. Submit your recommendations here.
Boulds, Jason, interview by Stephen Good and Regan Steimel. The Covid-19 Oral History Project, April 7, 2020. (Indianapolis, IN: IUPUI Arts and Humanities Institute)
“COVID-19 Documentation Project.” Tufts University Digital Collections and Archives, May 24, 2020.
Crowdsourced list of COVID-19 Oral History Projects.
“Documenting COVID-19.” Chicago History Museum.
Klaas, Teboho, interview by Shonda Gladden and Emily Leiserson. The Covid-19 Oral History Project, April 11, 2020. (Indianapolis, IN: IUPUI Arts and Humanities Institute)
“NYC COVID-19 Oral History, Narrative and Memory Archive.” INCITE Columbia University, May 23, 2020.
“Stanford University COVID-19 Oral History Project.” Stanford Historical Society, April 22, 2020.
“What Is Your COVID-19 Story?” DRI: Desert Research Institute, April 13, 2020,
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Davis, Allison P. “An Oral History of a Social-Distancing Birthday Party.” The Cut, March 15, 2020.
Hesse, Monica and Dan Zak. “The Holiday of a Lifetime : An Oral History of the infected, rejected Zaandam Cruise Ship.” The Washington Post, April 2, 2020.
Kircher, Madison Malone. “An Oral History of a Socially Distanced Wedding.” The Cut, March 23, 2020.
“Project Redial: Coronavirus Stories,” May 23, 2020.
Stein, Joshua David. “An Oral History of a Zoom Bar Mitzvah.” Grub Street, March 18, 2020.
Arvanitis, Kostas. “The ‘Manchester Together Archive’: Researching and Developing a Museum Practice of Spontaneous Memorials.” Museum and Society 17.3 (2019): 510–32.
Cave, Mark, and Stephen M Sloan. Listening on the Edge : Oral History in the Aftermath of Crisis. Oxford Oral History Series. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2014)
High, Steven. “Telling Stories: A Reflection on Oral History and New Media.” Oral History, 38.1 (2010): 101-112.
Oral History Association. “OHA Principles and Best Practices.”
Sarker, Mahua. “Between Craft and Method: Meaning and Inter-Subjectivity in Oral History Analysis.” Journal of Historical Sociology 25.4 (2012): 578–600.
Sloan, Stephen M. “Swimming in the Exaflood: Oral History as Information in the Digital Age,” Oral History and Digital Humanities: Voice, Access, and Engagement, ed. Douglas A. Boyd and Mary A. Larson (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014): 175–186.
Tchen, John Kuo Wei. “Who is Curating What, Why? Towards a More Critical Commoning Praxis.” Museum and Curatorial Studies Review 1.1 (Summer 2013), 5.
Yow, Valerie Raleigh. Recording Oral History: A Practical Guide for Social Scientists. (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 1994): 106–107.
Oral History Association, Remote Interviewing Resources
Dziedzic, Sarah. “Immunodeficiency and Oral History.” Medium, April 6, 2020.
Moore, Kimberely. “Remote Interviewing with Zencastr.” Oral History Review, June 5, 2020.
Ohio State University. "Covid-19 Resources for Folklorists." Center for Folklore Studies. 2020.
Shaw, Yowei, Jeff Towne. “Voice Recording in the Home Studio.” Transom, June 22, 2013.
Texas Oral History Association. “Oral History Technology.”
Towne, Jeff. “Recording during the Coronavirus Pandemic.” Transom, March 16, 2020.
Hogarth, Rana A. Medicalizing Blackness: Making Racial Difference in the Atlantic World, 1780-1840 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2017)
“Payment for Interviews.” H-Net H-OralHist, May 2015.
Sharpe, Christina. In the Wake: On Blackness and Being (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2016): 2, 4.
Sheftel, Anna and Stacey Zembrzycki. “Who’s Afraid of Oral History?: Fifty Years of Debates and Anxiety about Ethics.” Oral History Review 43.2 (September 21, 2016): 338–66.
Simpson, Audra. Mohawk Interruptus: Political Life Across the Borders of Settler States (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2014)
Smith, Linda Tuhiwai. Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples (London: Zed Books, 2012)
Srigley, Katrina, Stacey Zembrzycki, and Franca Iacovetta, eds. Beyond Women's Words : Feminisms and the Practices of Oral History in the Twenty-First Century. (Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2018)
Taylor, Keeanga-Yamahtta. "The Black Plague." The New Yorker. April 16, 2020.
Washington, Harriett. Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present (New York: Anchor, 2008)
Cohen-Stratyner, Barbara. “What Democracy Looks like: Crowd-Collecting Protest Materials.”Museums & Social Issues 12.2 (2017): 83–91.
Maerineau, Fred, Annie Wilkinson, Melissa Parker. “Epistemologies of Ebola: Reflections on the Experience of the Ebola Response Anthropology Platform.” Anthropological Quarterly 90.2 (2017): 475–94.
Schwartz, Pamela. “Preserving History as It Happens: Why and How the Orange County Regional History Center Undertook Rapid Response Collecting after the Pulse Nightclub Shooting.” Museum 97.3 (2018): 16–19.
Shaffer, Andrew, and Linda Shopes. "Reflections on the 'urge to Collect'." OUPblog. March 7, 2015.
Social Science for Emergency Response. “Ebola Response Anthropology Platform.” May 1, 2020.