Please join us in celebrating the news and accomplishments of our students and alums!
Read More2022-2023 Student, Alumni, and Faculty News
Please join us in celebrating the news and accomplishments of our students and alums!
Read MoreAnnouncing the 2019 Travel Grant Recipient
OHMA is pleased to the announce the 2019 Travel Grant Recipient, Carlin Zia (2017) who will consider questions around transcription and creativity at 2019 Oral History Association annual meeting in Salt Lake City.
Spring 2019 Student and Alumni News
As we wrap up the 2018-2019 school year, please join us in celebrating the news and accomplishments of our students and alums!
Read MoreDispatch from Florida: A Celebration of African American Oral History in Gainesville
Intro: In this post OHMA alum Benji de la Piedra (2014) recounts his experience of attending the From Segregation to Black Lives Matter: a Symposium in Celebration of the Opening of the Joel Buchanan Archive of African American Oral History at the University of Florida. In this essay he reflects on the University of Florida’s Samuel Proctor Oral History Program that centers Black experiences and heritage.
Read MoreReflections on the 2018 Oral History Association Annual Meeting
In this post, OHMA alumni and recipient of our alumni travel grant Lynn Lewis reflects on her experience presenting at the 2018 Oral History Association annual meeting in Montreal. The 2019 call for papers is now open!
Fall 2018 Student and Alumni News
As we wrap up the 2018-2019 school year, please join us in celebrating the news and accomplishments of our students and alums!
Read More2018 Oral History Association: It’s a Spirit
In this post, OHMA alumni and recipient of our alumni travel grant Svetlana Kitto reflects on her 2018 Oral History Association experience in Montreal.
An Update from 2016 Alum Robin Miniter
In this post, Robin Minter, a graduate of Columbia University’s Oral History MA Program describes her time doing the Transom Story Workshop in Woods Hole, MA and her summer plans.
Read MoreNyssa Chow wins the 2017 Jeffrey H. Brodsky Oral History Award
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.
Read MoreOHMA Welcomes New Faculty and Teaching Fellow for 2017-18 School Year!
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.
Read MoreCongratulations to recent OHMA graduate Fanny García!
Recent OHMA graduate Fanny Julissa García (2016) recently accepted a position at the New-York Historical Society.
Read MoreOHMA Student & Alumni News: Summer 2017
We are excited to offer a round of summer news updates from our Oral History MA program student and alumni community! From prestigious awards to new jobs and press coverage, OHMA affiliates are taking oral history to new heights.
Read MoreOHMA Alumni Updates: Spring 2017
We are excited to share a round of spring news updates from our Oral History MA program alumni community!
Read MoreOHMA Year-End Student & Alumni News Updates 2016
OHMA alums Erica Fugger and Cameron Vanderscoff with Centre for Public History staff and director Indira Chowdhury in Bangaluru, India.
To close out the year, OHMA is excited to share these recent news updates about our students and alumni. We hope that you will be able to join us for our Spring Open House on January 26 and One-Day Oral History Training Workshops on January 28, 2017 to meet a number of our program affiliates—including Nicki Pombier Berger (2010) and Fernanda Espinosa (2015)—and learn more about their innovative work!
Read MoreOHA 2016: Generations in Conversation
In Context Journal asks 2016 Oral History Association Annual Meeting attendees what they would like to see in future issues.
In this post, OHMA alumna Cindy Choung (2009), recipient of our first OHMA Alumni Conference Travel Grant, writes on dialogue and difference among oral history practitioners at the 2016 Oral History Association Meeting. She offers thoughts on creating space for connection and reflection between oral historians across generations.
Read MoreSeeking Collaboration & Building Community: An Origin of the Columbia Oral History Alumni Association
Two years after the formation of the Columbia Oral History Alumni Association (COHAA) Founding President and OHMA Project Coordinator Erica Fugger (2012) reminiscences on the group's origin story—spanning Columbia Center for Oral History Research's move to INCITE to the organic spaces for inter-cohort dialogue that arose amidst our historic interview archives in Butler Library.
Erica discusses the Alumni Association's early organizing efforts, participation in campus demonstrations, and commitment to building networks of support for emerging oral historians.
'Life Begins at Thirty': Writings of a Chinese International Student in OHMA
Haitao Fan is a member of our 2011 cohort. Her recently published book, Life Begins at Thirty (China Machine Press, 2016), profiles her time studying in OHMA and became an instant bestseller in Mainland China. In this post, Haitao reflects on her writing process and commitment to building the oral history movement in China.
Read MoreAnnouncement of 2016 OHMA Alumni Conference Travel Award Recipient
Congratulations to Cindy Choung (2009), the first recipient of our annual OHMA Alumni Conference Travel Award! Cindy will be chairing a roundtable at the 2016 Oral History Association Annual Meeting in Long Beach, California, titled: “Storytelling the Environment: Environmental Activism, Science, and Storytelling within an Intersectional Framework.”
Read MoreAlumni Profiles: Sarah Dziedzic
OHMA student Kate Brenner talks to program alumni about how oral history training prepared them for their next step. In this post, Sarah Dziedzic tells us about her position as Project Coordinator for the Institute for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality Oral History Project at the Columbia Center for Oral History Research. Stay tuned for the next post in this series!
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