Eleonora Anedda is an oral historian from Sardinia, Italy. She graduated from OHMA in May 2020 and came to oral history from a Gender and Sexuality Studies background. She cares about documenting and preserving untold stories of individuals, families and communities.
Eleonora was born in Muravera, Italy and raised in a small town in Sardinia. She holds a B.A. in Lettere (Humanities) from the Università degli Studi di Cagliari and an M.A. in Queer History from the University of London. In 2019 she started LIOH, an oral history project which aims at reconstructing how, in the 20th century, the lives of Italian queer women were shaped by society, language, religion, and politics.
During her time at Columbia, she worked for the Picture of the Homeless Oral History Project, videotaping oral history interviews conducted by the lead researcher Lynn Lewis – another OHMA alumna from whom she learned A LOT, including interviewing skills, community involvement and collaboration. As a graduate researcher, she has worked closely with historians, ethnographers and community organisers on numerous research projects. Since 2020, with the South Phoenix Oral History Project she has been researching how students at South Mountain Community College, AZ become community historians and agents for positive social change. She has also been mapping religious diversity in Texas with Austin’s Institute of Diversity and Civic Life. And lastly, with Meanings of October 27th, she helped document Pittsburgh’s resilience in the aftermath of the 2018 Tree of Life synagogue shooting. She has conducted and processed oral history interviews, customized metadata, and provided transcription and audit-editing training.
She enjoys reading, cooking, gardening and has recently taken up paddleboarding.
Pronouns: she/her/hers
Location: Located in Sardegna, Italy. Willing to relocate and travel.
Languages: Italian and English
Looking for: Full Time, Part Time, Freelance, Consulting
Skills/Interests: Interviewing, Transcribing, Teaching (full classes), Teaching (workshops), Presenting, Audio editing (Final Cut Pro, Premiere, Hindenburg), Photography, Archiving (metadata, OHMS, Omeka), Indexing, Consulting, Curating
Website Production (WordPress, Squarespace), Research, History, Italian Studies, Gender and Sexuality, Feminist History
Email: e.anedda@columbia.edu