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OHR Extra! is an open-access online publication produced by the current Oral History Review team. It complements the journal by extending the conversations we are having in the Review and aims to support the oral history community at large by inviting coverage of topics, news, projects, and events important to the field. Extra! will be updated regularly throughout the year. To contact us with a notice or idea for Extra!, please email our Media Review Editor, Bud Kliment, @ .
The Latest from OHR Extra!
How We Gather: U.K. OHS Festival Explores a Different Rhythm for Oral History Conferences
A Reflection by OHR Editorial Board Member Lauren Kata and OHA Council Member Fanny García OHA members Fanny Garcia, Natalie Milbrodt, and Lauren Kata met up at this year’s OHS…
Author Interview: Douglas A. Boyd
The Spring 2026 issue of the Oral History Review features a Special Section on Oral History and AI. In it, Douglas A. Boyd, director of the Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History…
Author Interview: Eleanor Paynter
In her spring 2026 OHR article, “Crisis Oral History and the Asylum Timescape: Temporalities, Solidarities, and Affect in Interviews with Ukrainians with Temporary Protection in Italy,” Eleanor Paynter, who is assistant professor…
Oral History Project Focus: The Derek Piotr Fieldwork Archive
What is your project about and why does it matter? I am the project lead and creative director of The Derek Piotr Fieldwork Archive. I established the Fieldwork Archive as…