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Extra! salutes the 2025 winners of OHA’s Mason Multi-Media Awards

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Announced by the OHA at their annual meeting in Atlanta,  the Mason Multi-Media awards recognize “outstanding oral history projects, collections, exhibits, and multimedia presentations for the public.”   According to Yolanda Hester, who chaired the committee that selected the winners and whose members included Max Peterson, Mark Caltrain and Simona Tobia, “As in previous years, we […]

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The Tibetan Land Speaks: Oral Histories of Political Violence and the Land

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December 10th at 6pm An online presentation by Kathryn Nasstrom A meeting of the OHS’ Environment and Climate Change Special Interest GroupThis presentation is situated at the juncture of two important trends in recent oral history research: 1- oral history and political violence; 2- oral histories of the land and environment. I take a case

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Call for Case Studies – Artificial Intelligence Applications in Oral History (Due 1/19/26)

/ Jobs and Professional Opportunities, Calls for Submissions

The forthcoming publication from Palgrave Macmillan, Artificial Intelligence Applications in Oral History: Reports from the Field, is launching a call for case studies from oral history practitioners across the world who have utilized artificial intelligence technologies in their work. The possible applications of this technology will be divided into the following chapters: Chapter 1 –

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Incite’s Oral History MA Program is Hiring a New Co-Director

/ Jobs and Professional Opportunities, Academic Jobs, Oral Historian Jobs

The Oral History Master of Art Program (OHMA) at Columbia University invites applications for a full-time appointment as a Lecturer in Discipline, to serve as Co-Director for the Oral History Master of Art Program. This is a full-time appointment based in Incite to begin July 1, 2026. The Co-Director will work alongside Amy Starecheski, current Director of

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Call for Chapters: Routledge Handbook of Oral History Theory (Due 1/31/26)

/ Jobs and Professional Opportunities, Calls for Submissions

Co-editors George Severs and Amy Tooth Murphy are inviting expressions of interest to contributechapters to the forthcoming Routledge Oral History Theory Handbook. The Handbook will consist ofbetween 35 and 40 chapters in English which aim to reflect on and advance the field of theorywithin oral history. Despite its usefulness and importance, theory remains under-examined andunder-appreciated

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Check out the Community History Room at the Arab American National Museum

/ OHA News

The Community History Room (CHR), located in the Russell J. Ebeid library at the Arab American National Museum, is an opportunity for Arab American community members to deep-dive into, and preserve their history. Community members can use CHR to view historical documents to build family trees, scan their own family documents and photos, and record oral

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Agricultural History Society Award for Public Engagement

/ Jobs and Professional Opportunities, Grants, Fellowships, and Awards

Submissions Due December 31, 2025 The Agricultural History Society established the Effland-Grim-Reid Award for Public Engagement in Agricultural History in 2022. The award recognizes an individual, group, or organization that makes a significant contribution to broad public understanding of agricultural history or demonstrates creativity and innovation in practice, either through an exceptional activity or for

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OHA Action Plan Survey

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In 2024, OHA asked members to share their input—and you did. You raised key issues: training, accessibility, leadership opportunities, and support for independent practitioners. We’ve already begun responding with expanded scholarships and new virtual offerings. Now we’re asking again for your perspective. This brief follow-up survey (under 10 minutes) will help shape our 2025–2026 Action

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Annual Meeting Author Signing Interest Call (Due 9/12)

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Calling All Authors! The Annual Meeting will feature an Author Signing on Thursday, October 16, from 10:00 to 10:30 a.m. This special event gives selected authors the opportunity to connect with readers and showcase their work. Each participating author will be assigned table-top space to display and sell books. Please note that authors are responsible

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