We're excited to announce the recipient of the January round of our student research grant awards!
Read Morecentering: bringing an anti-oppression lens to oral history work by Groundswell launches with an interview featuring Amy Starecheski
centering is a free, online, interview-based resource guide featuring stories of anti-oppression principles in action in oral history work
Read MoreLV Communications: Stories that Make a Difference
Looking for an experienced communications professional and oral historian to help your campaign, organization, or family to tell your story?
OHMA alum Leyla Vural has lauched a new venture, LV Communications: Stories that Make a Difference. Check it out.
And read about Leyla's vision:
I am most interested in our shared efforts to make the world a more just place. I studied oral history (and in May 2015 earned an M.A. in it from Columbia University) because I wanted to learn the newest methods in the oldest of traditions: listening to people share their experience. Life stories are about understanding the past, to be sure, but they're also about shaping the future. Oral history helps ordinary people (Studs Terkel called us the "etceteras") put ourselves directly on the record. That by itself is important, but listening to life stories also is a way to imagine a brighter day and sharing those stories is a way to push for change.
One of the things I love about oral history is that it’s communal. By definition, you can’t work alone if your work is about listening to people. In this way, oral history mirrors all efforts at social change and, of course, life itself. It’s not only better with other people, it’s impossible without them. Social justice may be a forever project, but together we can keep bending that arc of history while we find strength in one another and have some fun as we go.
The Accidental Oral Historian: Moustafa Bayoumi on Process, Interviewing and (not) Archiving
Jonathon Fairhead is a current OHMA student. In this post, he discusses whether or not Moustafa Bayoumi's encounters with Muslim Arab Americans are oral history.
Read MoreThe Jazz Rhythms of a Puerto Rican Lullaby: Miguel Zenón Jazz Composer, Musician and Oral Historian
Rozanne Gooding-Silverwood is a current OHMA student. In this post, she reflects on Miguel Zenón's oral-history based music as a form of cultural transmission.
Read MoreDiaspora Jazz: My personal reflection of Miguel Zenon’s Identities are Changeable
Andrew Viñales is a current OHMA student. In this post, he reflects on the meaning of diaspora jazz.
Read MoreOral History as a Political Response
Eylem Delikanli is a current OHMA student. In this post, she discusses the potential of first-person narratives to counter Islamophobia in the United States.
Read MoreWhen Truth is Justice
Chen Felicia Wu is a current OHMA student. In this post, she asks, Can individual stories be the weapon to solve structural problems of sexual violence against Black women?
Read MoreThe Limits of Cross Pollination in the Arts
Geraldo Scala is a current OHMA student. In this post, he questions whether there is a place for oral history in jazz.
Read MoreMiguel Zenón and his caravan of conversations
Bud Kliment is a current OHMA student. In this post, he discusses Miguel Zenón's vision of the stories jazz can tell us.
Read MoreIdentities Are Changeable
Erica Zora Wrightson is an OHMA alum and oral history columnist for The LA Times. In this post, she shares her conversation with jazz saxophonist Miguel Zenón. Check out OHMA's workshop with Erica and Miguel.
Read MoreMapping the Grey Zones of Colonial Violence
Crystal Mun-hye Baik is an OHMA alum and Assistant Professor in the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Riverside. Currently, she is working on her first book manuscript, tentatively entitled: Demilitarized Futures: Korean Transnational Artists and a Poetics of Division.
Read MoreAnnouncing our first OHMA research grant awards
We're excited to announce the recipients of our very first student research grant awards!
Read MoreAnnouncing the Jeffrey H. Brodsky Oral History Award
The Columbia University Oral History Master of Arts Program is excited to announce the Jeffrey H. Brodsky Oral History Award.
Read MoreWhat Makes History Most Memorable?
Steven Palmer is a current OHMA student. In this post, he contemplates how history might be told best.
Read MoreAlum Liza Zapol interviews to preserve Greenwich Village history
Narrator Frances Goldin, East Village
New oral history interviews commissioned by the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation are online!
Read MoreEducation, Intersubjectivity, and Healing in Judith Sloan’s Yo! Miss and Crossing the BLVD
Pablo Baeza is a current OHMA student. In this post, he discusses education and intersubjectivity in Judith Sloan's multimedia oral history work.
Read MoreCreative Spaces of Justice
Fernanda Espinosa is a current OHMA student. In this post, she discusses oral history and language justice in artist Judith Sloan's work.
Read More"Oral History-ish": Interpretation in Judith Sloan’s Work
Christina Pae is a current OHMA student. In this post, she reflects on doing justice to our narrators in conducting oral history projects.
Read MoreNot Just Dots on a Map: Life Histories Alleviate Spatial Amnesia in San Francisco
Audrey Augenbraum is Outreach Coordinator for OHMA. In this post, she explores Anti-Eviction Mapping Project organizer Manissa Maharawal's idea of 'spatial amnesia' and engaging with public dialogues surrounding neighborhood change.
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