In our latest installment of OHR Conversations, our recorded conversations with oral history practitioners and scholars, Myrl Beam & Elspeth H. Brown join OHR co-editor Janneken Smucker to discuss their recent OHR article, “Toward an Ethos of Trans Care in Trans Oral History,” examining the role of oral history within the context of trans visibility. OHR Conversations, […]
In this installment of OHR Conversations, Oral History Review co-editor Janneken Smucker welcomes Lana Dee Povitz for a conversation about ethics in oral history, the delicate relationship between interviewers and narrators, the differences between oral history and journalism, and and what happens when you love your narrator too much. Povitz authored the recent, “Warm Distance: Grappling with […]
In our latest installment of OHR Conversations, our recorded conversations with oral history practitioners and scholars, Na Li and OHR co-editor Janneken Smucker discuss her recent OHR article, “History, Memory, and Identity: Oral History in China,” examining the popular and public role of oral history in shaping Chinese consciousness. OHR Conversations, between Na Li and […]
In our latest installment of OHR Conversations, our recorded conversations with oral history practitioners and scholars, Yolanda Hester shares the process and outcomes of creating Community and Commerce: Oral Histories of African American Businesses in Los Angeles. OHR Conversations, between Yolanda Hester and OHR co-editor Janneken Smucker, recorded May 7, 2020 Listen to audio only. […]
Last week, Digital Editor Janneken Smucker virtually sat down with Rina Benmayor and Linda Shopes, the guest editors of Oral History Review’s Winter/Spring 2019 issue special section, “The Contributions of Ronald J. Grele to Oral History.” In this installment of OHR Conversations, our guests share what all oral historians should know about their friend and […]
In this OHR Conversations, Janice Fernheimer, co-author of “Sustainable Stewardship: A Collaborative Model for Engaged Oral History Pedagogy, Community Partnership, and Archival Growth,” describes the processes at the heart of her classroom/archive/community partnership at University of Kentucky. Drawing from the recently published article, “Sustainable Stewardship: A Collaborative Model for Engaged Oral History Pedagogy, Community Partnership, and […]
In this installment of Oral History Review‘s OHR Conversations, Editorial Assistant Nicole Strunk interviews Tom Ikeda, the founder and executive director of Densho. Together they discuss how the oral history project approaches saving the testimonies and experiences of incarcerated Japanese Americans during World War II. Listen to audio of the conversation between Tom Ikeda and Nicole Strunk. […]
In this installment of Oral History Review‘s OHR Conversations, Digital Editor Janneken Smucker joins contributors to the recent special section, “Decentering and Decolonizing Feminist Oral Histories: Reflections on the State of the Field in the Early Twenty-First Century” to discuss how the seminal text, Women’s Words and the ideas explored in their special section have impacted their […]
In this installment of Oral History Review’s OHR Conversations, independent scholar Carrie Hamilton discusses ways in which the sub-fields of oral history and Animal Studies can inform one another, drawing from her article published in the Summer/Fall 2018 issue, “Animal Stories and Oral History: Witnessing and Mourning across the Species Divide.” Listen to audio […]
We are pleased to announce the launch of OHR Conversations, our new initiative to turn the microphone toward Oral History Review authors to give them an opportunity to share what inspired their articles, giving a behind the scene glimpse at how oral historians think about their practice, methods, and theories. In our first installment of OHR […]
