OHA Grants and Awards for Oral Historians


OHA Grants

OHA provides funding annually for its Emerging Crises Oral History Research Grant, and occasionally applies for national grants to enable their members’ work on a host of other projects.


OHA Awards

In 1993 OHA established a series of annual and biennial awards to recognize outstanding achievement in oral history. Award winners are announced and celebrated at the OHA Annual Meeting each October and chronicled on the OHA Website. Follow links below for specific award submission guidelines.


NEH Fellowship and Grant Program

In September, 2021 the Oral History Association was awarded $825,000 from the NEH American Rescue Plan to create a fellowship and grants program for under/unemployed oral historians, with a focus on oral historians from communities that have historically been marginalized in the field. You can read more about the grant, the fellowship and grant recipients, and their work HERE.


OHA Grants and Awards Timeline

The Stetson Kennedy Vox Populi Award honors individuals and organizations for outstanding achievement in using oral history to create a more humane and just world with special consideration given to candidates whose body of work is substantial enough to be regarded as a significant achievement. This award is a biennial award.

The next award will be made at the OHA’s 2026 annual meeting.

The Cliff Kuhn Award recognizes a distinguished postsecondary educator involved in undergraduate, graduate, continuing, or professional education who has incorporated the practice of oral history in the classroom in an exemplary way. This award is a biennial award.

The next award will be made at the OHA’s 2026 annual meeting.

CLOSED : Submission Deadline – July 1,2025

Article Award

The OHA Article Award is an honorific award to recognize a published article or essay that uses oral history to make a significant contribution to contemporary scholarship; significantly advances understanding of important theoretical issues in oral history; and/or is an outstanding example of sound oral history methodology.


CLOSED : Submission Deadline – July 1,2025

Mason Multi-Media Awards

The OHA Mason Multi-Media recognizes outstanding oral history projects, collections, exhibits, and multimedia presentations for the public.


CLOSED : Submission Deadline – July 1,2025

Martha Ross Teaching Award

The Martha Ross Teaching Award recognizes a distinguished primary or secondary school teacher or professional involved in educational outreach at the precollegiate level who has incorporated the practice of oral history in the classroom in an exemplary way. This award is a biennial award.


CLOSED : Submission Deadline – June 1,2025

INDIGENOUS INITIATIVE RESEARCH FUND

The OHA Indigenous Initiative Research Fund provides a $1,000 annual monetary award given to an oral historian actively engaged in a collaborative, community-based oral history research project with Indigenous peoples.


CLOSED : Submission Deadline – April 15,2025

Emerging Crises Oral History Research Fund

The Emerging Crises Oral History Research Fund provides funding annually for one oral historian or project to undertake oral history research in situations of crisis in the United States and internationally.


CLOSED : Submission Deadline – April 1,2025

Book Award

The OHA Book Award recognizes a published book that uses oral history to make a significant contribution to contemporary scholarship; and/or significantly advances understanding of important theoretical issues in oral history; and/or is an outstanding example of sound oral history methodology.


 

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