December 3rd is OHA’s 2024 Day of Giving! This year your Day of Giving donation to the OHA can go towards one of two funds: the Indigenous Initiative, which endows a fund that will promote the success of Indigenous oral historians as well as meaningful, ethical oral history projects within Indigenous communities, or the Scholarship […]
The Oral History Review is happy to announce a call for papers for a special issue dedicated to Oral History and Disability. It is currently slated for the Spring 2025 issue of the OHR. View the full CFP. Oral historians often write and talk about inclusion, even radical inclusion. What does this mean in practice?
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The Oral History Association (OHA) seeks to hire a full-time program associate to assist in the operation of its Executive Office. Since 1966, the OHA has served as the principal membership organization for people committed to the value of oral history. Job tasks assigned to the program associate include assisting in planning the annual meeting,
Work is underway on a new OHA website! As part of the redesign, we would love to integrate photos from our members! We ask for photos featuring: OHA annual meetings, other OHA events, OHA members, and/or oral history work. You can use this form to upload 10 photos at a time. Thanks in advance for
Since the release of OpenAI’s ChatGPT in the fall of 2022, artificial intelligence, or AI for short, has pervaded our shared discourse and lexicon. Myriad organizations and sectors are at once hurriedly embracing and cautiously considering the impacts large language models and complex algorithms might have on their industries. Oral history is not immune to
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With many thanks to all that ran and voted in our 2023 election, the OHA is pleased to announce our newest elected leaders.
OHA is pleased to announce the first two members of the 2024-26 editorial team for its journal, Oral History Review: Holly Werner-Thomas as editor, and Robert LaRose as copy editor. Holly and Robert bring impressive experience and expertise to lead the next era of this leading oral history research journal published for OHA by Routledge/Taylor
TIME to VOTE, OHA! As OHA members, it’s up to you to elect a new OHA first vice president (who advances to president), a new representative to the OHA Council (our leadership body), and new representatives to two of our OHA committees: the Nominating Committee and Committee on Committees. Learn about the candidates and vote
You can now view the 2023 Preliminary Program as an interactive PDF HERE! Have questions about the program or see something missing? Email us at oha@oralhistory.org or call (615) 624-2688.
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Registration is now open for the 2023 OHA Annual Meeting to be held October 18-21 at the Hyatt Regency Baltimore Inner Harbor. Learn more about this year’s conference here and register here. See you in Baltimore!
Registration now open for OHA’s 2023 Annual Meeting! Read More »
2023 Annual Meeting Scholarship Applications are now open! The OHA scholarship program provides students, professionals, and community practitioners with travel funds so they may attend the annual meeting. OHA offers more than $10,000 in scholarship funds each year. Go to https://oralhistory.org/annual-meeting-scholarships/ for more information.
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May 2023 Executive Summary The first purpose of this document is to inform and assist college and university administrators, department chairs, promotion and tenure committees, and/or other employers by: 1) developing an appreciation for the intellectual effort, research, expertise, and time required for conducting successful oral history projects; 2) demonstrating the value and unique work that
Announcing the OHA Guidelines for the Evaluation of Oral Historians Read More »
