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.
Read MoreThe Anti-Eviction Mapping Project’s Mural in Clarion Alley: Public-Facing Oral History Done Right
Mario Alvarez is a current OHMA student. In this post, he discusses the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project's multimedia approach as an example of effective public-facing oral history.
Read MoreThe Anti-Eviction Mapping Project: Combining Data & Narrative in Documenting Displacement
Meghan Valdes is a current OHMA student. In this post, she discusses the harmony between data visualization and oral history in Manissa Maharawal's presentation of the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project.
Read MoreDifficult Knowledge and Oral History Interviews: Traversing Emotional Landscapes in Post-Apartheid South Africa
Jonathon Fairhead is a current OHMA student. In this post, he reflects on navigating difficult knowledge for oral history interviews in post-apartheid South Africa.
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