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Dear colleagues, For the past year, the Oral History Association Metadata Task Force has been conducting Phase 2 of our survey about current oral history metadata and description practices. We will close the survey at the end of February, and we want to be sure to hear from you before then! We recognize that the […]

Natalie Fousekis is Director of the Lawrence de Graaf Center for Oral and Public History (COPH) and Professor of History. She specializes in modern U.S. History, grassroots politics, women’s history, and oral history. Natalie has been engaged in oral history work for almost twenty-five years — conducting dozens of interviews, teaching oral history methodology to undergraduate

The OHA has written a letter in response to the potential closing of the University of Iowa Labor Center. Read the letter here.

  The Oral History Review, the official journal of the Oral History Association, is accepting applications for an open position on the editorial team, the Copy- and Production Editor. The successful applicant will join the five-member editorial team of the Review and will participate actively in the development of the journal. The editorial team—a creative

The OHA Membership dues structure will change as of January 1, 2019. If you renew before Dec. 31, 2018, you will be locked in to the 2018 current rates. The new structure will be: $100 General Membership $75 Emerging/Independent Practitioner $35 Student/Community Practitioner

We are pleased to announce this year’s award winners. They will be recognized at the Presidential Reception, Thursday October 11, in Montreal.   Article Award: Naoko Wake, “Surviving the Bomb in America: Silent Memories and the Rise of Cross-national Identity,” Pacific Historical Review, Vol. 86 No. 3, August 2017; (pp. 472-509).   Book Award: S.

  The OHA has established a diversity initiative to fund fellowships for oral historians of color. This year’s Day of Giving is dedicated to growing that fund. A generous donor has already pledged $2000. On September 19th, our Annual Day of Giving is dedicated to reaching a goal of $10,000 to fund our first OHA

The OHA’s Day of Giving last year raised money for scholarships to fund travel to our Annual Conference for those in hurricane-affected areas.  With matching funds provided by the Chao Center for Asian Studies at Rice University and the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program at the University of Florida, we are able to fund 2

By Kristine McCusker and Louis Kyriakoudes This will be a different conference! Conference planning is in full swing, with program associate Faith Bagley, doctoral student Jordan Alexander and both co-directors working hard to make sure #OHA2018 in Montreal is the best conference yet. Steven High, the folks at the Centre for Oral History and Digital

By Todd Moye   Promoting ethical principles and best practices for oral history is the most important public service the OHA performs. If anything, it’s more important now than it has ever been, with the federal government having recently redefined “generalizable knowledge” in a way that exempts oral history from Institutional Review Board review. Many