Nyssa Chow wins the 2017 Jeffrey H. Brodsky Oral History Award

September 11, 2017 Admin

A photograph from Intersecting Histories: The Story of Her Skin — A photograph from *Intersecting Histories: The Story of Her Skin*

In November of 2015, Jeffrey H. Brodsky, OHMA alum, announced a generous annual cash prize of $3,000 for an outstanding thesis. The criteria for receiving the award is that the thesis must “make an important contribution to knowledge and exemplify the rigor, creativity and ethical integrity we teach our students.”

We are proud to announce the winner: Nyssa Chow, and Ellen Coon, the runner up. We invite you to consider the resonances between these two theses: in the recreation of the literal voices and memories of powerful women who tend to the living and the dying and all the attendant rituals in between, and who translate the stories that enliven the next generation.

OHMA Welcomes New Faculty and Teaching Fellow for 2017-18 School Year!

September 4, 2017 Admin

Whitney Dow (left) and Nyssa Chow (right)

We are excited to welcome new faculty member Whitney Dow and teaching fellow Nyssa Chow to OHMA for the coming school year.

Honoring Experience through Oral History: Reflections on Teaching a High School Walmart Employee

May 9, 2017 Incite Institute at Columbia University

In this final post in our four-part series, Heather Michael talks about her experiences teaching high school students who were navigating their lives in school, while working for Walmart. She discusses Adam Reich’s recent OHMA Workshop Series lecture, “The Summer for Respect: Student Activists, Walmart Workers, and the Future of the American Labor Movement,” honing in on the parallels between the insight Reich gained through his project and the value of using oral history as a way to validate experiences.