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After the 2021 Annual Meeting, OHA President, Dan Kerr, appointed an Organization Restructuring Taskforce, comprised of Tomás Summers Sandoval (chair); Cynthia Tobar; Allison Tracy-Taylor (until February); and Yolanda Leyva (since April). The Taskforce’s charge was to review the current structure with respect to committees, task forces, and interest groups; review association documents and consult with current […]

The 2021 OHA election is open for all OHA members. The deadline to vote is Sept 1. Find the list of candidates (with a bio and personal statement for each) and vote using this form: https://oha.memberclicks.net/2021-election. Members will need to sign in with their membership profile in order to cast a vote. If you have any

By Dan Kerr August 2021 Newsletter              As we near the end of August, the OHA Executive Office, the program committee for the annual conference, the Council and our standing committees and taskforces are very busy completing work as we near our annual meeting, “Moving Stories,” this October. As I near the end of my

This year’s Annual Day of Giving will go toward helping OHA’s endowment reach $1 million. The endowment helps pay for scholarships to the Annual Meeting; helps us stage webinars and other professional outreach and education; allows us to support other oral history organizations like the International Oral History Association; helps support new initiatives like strategic

The Oral History Association (OHA), the principal organization of practicing oral historians in the United States, is seeking a host institution and/or executive director beginning January 1, 2023.  Since it’s founding, the OHA was run by an Executive Secretary, but the organization decided to go to an Executive Office model in 2011. The first Executive

By Nishani Frazier and Nikki Pombier, Nominating Committee Co-Chairs Some of the members of the Nominating Committee are relatively new to OHA, although they are not new to oral history. As new members, we embraced different strategies for enhancing the OHA structure, in part because we were not informed by or obligated to older models.

The OHA’s 2021 award cycle is open and nominations are due July 1. This year we are offering the following awards: Article Award Mason Multi-Media Awards Book Award Martha Ross Teaching Award Stetson Kennedy Vox Populi (“Voice of the People”) Annual Award All open committee spots have been filled, and so make sure to get