✰ Oral History & IRB Review | Oral History & The Law Webinar #1 ✰
Tuesday, June 24
3 – 4:30 pm EST
on Zoom
As a follow-up to the popular session from the OHA Annual Meeting in Cincinnati last fall, Jay-Marie Bravent and Doug Boyd will continue the community conversation focused on current trends in oral history research, risks, privacy, hierarchies of legitimacy, ethics reviews as peer reviews, IRB professionals as resources and partners, and other aspects of regulatory compliance.
Jay-Marie Bravent is an archivist, public historian, educator, researcher, and administrator with over 25 years of experience working in archives and special collections. Jay holds an M.A. in Public History from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, a graduate certificate in Public Health from the University of Kentucky, and is a Certified Archivist. Jay has served as a processing archivist, college archivist, teaching and outreach archivist, curator, director, and in research services positions at a variety of institutions including federal contractors at the National Security Agency, the Maryland Center for History and Culture, Berea College in Kentucky, as well as small museums and large R1 universities.
Recently, Jay moved to a full-time role in research compliance administration at the University of Cincinnati after serving as vice-chair of the Non-medical Institutional Review Board and tenured faculty librarian at the University of Kentucky. Expertise in social science research methods, human subject research ethics, and the intersections of public history and public health make Jay a strong advocate for shaping policy, best practices, and new contributions to archival science and public history. Jay enjoys DIY projects, traveling, playing guitar, gardening, swimming, tennis, and continues to write and conduct research while intermittently pursuing a PhD.
Doug Boyd Ph.D. serves as the Director of the Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History at the University of Kentucky Libraries and is a recent president of the Oral History Association. Boyd envisioned, designed, and implemented the open source and free OHMS system, which synchronizes text with audio and video online. In 2019 Boyd received a Fulbright Scholars Research Grant to collaborate with the National Library of Australia on innovative access to online oral history.Boyd is the author of Oral History: A Very Short Introduction being published by Oxford University Press in August 2025, he is the co-editor (with Mary A. Larson) of the book Oral History and Digital Humanities: Voice, Access, and Engagement published by Palgrave MacMillan in 2014, and he is the author of the book Crawfish Bottom: Recovering a Lost Kentucky Community which was published in August 2011 by the University Press of Kentucky. He authors the blog Digital Omnium: Oral History, Archives, and Digital Technology and is the author of numerous articles pertaining to oral history, archives and digital technologies.