2021 Virtual Issue: Ethics

The Oral History Review editorial team is delighted our special issue on ethics has launched online and arrived in your mailboxes. To accompany this issue, our spring 2021 intern Mark Vallaro and assistant editor Nicole Strunk have produced our annual virtual issue drawing from the OHR archive of articles. This year, the virtual issue explores the broad theme of Ethics.

From the editors

Our Special Issue on Ethics has already reached many readers, along with recent blog posts published here by some of the authors who contributed articles to the issue. We are exceptionally proud of these pieces, who crafted compelling essays drawn from their personal experiences as oral historians working in our sensitive field involving living, named subjects. We hope the articles will launch continuing conversations about how to responsibly navigate the relationships with our narrators, funders, archives, and publishers.

As part of this continuing conversation, our 2021 virtual issue, featuring articles freed from their paywall, looks back at how practitioners have considered ethics in diverse and expansive ways. Read the editors’ intro, view the table of contents, and link to the articles here.