View Post on OUP Blog By Andrew Shaffer We spend a lot of time in this space pointing to particular people or projects that we think are doing interesting things with oral history. In June we talked to Josh Burford, who is using oral history to start important conversations in North Carolina. In April, we […]
View Post on OUP Blog By Siobhán McHugh When we’re not busy plotting to make Oxford University Press’s social media all oral history all the time, we occasionally branch out to see what oral historians are doing in other corners of the internet. This week we bring you one of our favorite recent pieces, in […]
View Post on OUP Blog By Steven Sielaff Today we return to our ongoing series of oral history origin stories. We hear how Steven Sielaff found his way to the crazy mixed up world of oral history, and how his technophilia feeds into his love of oral history. Since this is an oral historian origin story, I […]
View Post on OUP Blog By Andrew Viñales The #OHMATakeover of the OHR blog comes to a close as Andrew Viñales discusses the benefits of youth listening to activists in their communities. Thanks for following along as we invited our East Coast colleagues to shake things up a little, and come back in August for […]
View Post on OUP Blog By Audrey Augenbraum The #OHMATakeover of the OHR blog continues as Audrey Augenbraum explores Anti-Eviction Mapping Project organizer Manissa Maharawal’s idea of “spatial amnesia” and engaging with public dialogues surrounding neighborhood change. Stay tuned to the OHR blog throughout the month of July for additional pieces from OHMA students and alumni, […]
View Post on OUP Blog By Sarah K Loose The #OHMATakeover of the OHR blog continues as Sara Loose explains her origins in oral history and how the skills and perspectives she gained at Columbia have influenced her career so far. Stay tuned to the OHR blog throughout the month of July for additional pieces […]
View Post on OUP Blog By Eylem Delikanli The #OHMATakeover of the OHR blog continues as Eylem Delikanli discusses the potential of first-person narratives to counter Islamophobia in the United States. Stay tuned to the OHR blog throughout the month of July for additional pieces from OHMA students and alumni, and come back in August […]
View Post on OUP Blog By Liz Strong Throughout the month of July the students and alumni of the Oral History Masters program at Columbia University are occupying the OHR blog, bringing some of their insights and experiences to our corner of the Internet. This first post in the #OHMATakeover begins with Liz Strong responding […]
View Post on OUP Blog By Josh Burford This year, we have focused on people and institutions using oral history in innovative ways, discussing the challenges they face and their motivations for using oral history to make positive changes in the world. In April we talked to Scott Seyforth and Nichole Barnes about the impressive […]
View Post on OUP Blog Murphy, Jennifer Pierce, and Jason Ruiz suggest some of the ways that queer methodologies are useful and important for oral history projects. Moving between Alessandro Portelli and recent innovations in queer theory, the piece offers both practical and theoretical suggestions about what oral historians can learn from queering oral history. […]
