Karen Lalrindiki Donoghue is presently a Fulbright-Nehru Post-Doctoral scholar at the South Asian Program (SAP), Cornell University. She holds a PhD from the North Eastern Hill University, which is focused on media representation of Northeast India in mainstream Indian media, and her research interests include Media Representation, Media and Culture and Oral History. She is currently a member of the executive committee of the Oral History Association of India. Driven by the urgency for collaborative research, she centers community agency in knowledge-production and uses the transgressive potential of oral history to this end.
Experience
I have been practising oral history since 2022, and am currently serving as an executive committee member for the Oral History Association of India. I have been an active part of the conferences, workshops and other events they have organized since joining. I have completed one oral history project, at the end of which, a book was produced, and am also part of two concurrent collaborative oral history projects, apart from my present post-doctoral project.
Purpose of Contact
- I am available to answer questions, or provide mentorship to other oral historians