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Three OHA conference sessions will examine the use of oral history in pursuit of social justice. Documenting Activism in the age of #BlackLivesMatter and Standing Rock is based on the premise that the simple act of documentation itself is a form of activism. A panel will examine how the smartphone and social media, which have […]

Continuing a tradition established in 1994, the Oral History Association recognizes exemplary oral history work with the following awards to be presented at the 2017 conference:   Article Award “Allan Nevins is Not My Grandfather: The Roots of Radical Oral History in the United States” Daniel R. Kerr   Book Award A Two-Spirit Journey: The

This year the International Committee received 14 International Scholarship applications from historians hoping to attend the annual meeting. Awards have been made to: Lorna Barton, Scotland Sophia Isajiw, Canada Hong Jiang, China Riikka Taavetti, Finland Last month we featured abstracts from Lorna Barton, Sophia Isjiw and Hong Jiang. This month we will feature the abstract

OHA welcomes Jill Lepore, the David Woods Kemper ’41 Professor of American History at Harvard University, as the keynote speaker at the 2017 annual meeting. Lepore is also a staff writer at The New Yorker. A prize-winning professor, she teaches classes in evidence, historical methods, humanistic inquiry, and American history. Much of her scholarship explores absences and

This year the International Committee received 14 International Scholarship Applications. Awards have been made to: Lorna Barton, Scotland Sophia Isajiw, Canada Hong Jiang, China Riikka Taavetti, Finland Cheryl Ware, Australia This month we will feature abstracts from Lorna Barton, Sophia Isjiw and Hong Jiang. Next month we will feature abstracts by Riikka Taavetti and Cheryl

Welcome to another edition of OHA Spotlight! This month we are featuring Dr. Harcourt Fuller and his work, which includes a documentary-film and recorded album project, and how oral history was essential to both. Dr. Fuller’s Background: I am an Associate Professor of History in the Department of History at Georgia State University. I hold a PhD

From Alice Lynd’s work We Won’t Go (1968), to their most recent co-authored book Moral Injury and Nonviolent Resistance (2017), the Lynds have revolutionized the field of oral history and have done so while keeping their commitment to social justice at the center of their work.  In the Saturday plenary at the 2017 annual meeting, the Lynds

The preliminary program for the 2017 annual meeting is now available online at OHA 2017. Click “View the Online Program” on the left side of the screen to reach the program menu. You may search the program by participant name, day, or time. Click on the session title and you can read the abstract or

By Allison Tracy, OHA Council It you’ve ever sat in on an Oral History Association Council meeting, you’ll know we do a lot of talking. For a group of folks who have centered their work on listening to others, which we also do at meetings, of course, it can feel unnatural to talk so much,

By Troy Reeves, University of Wisconsin-Madison This March in Phoenix at the OHA mid-winter meeting, I volunteered to lead a year-long working group we called the Membership Task Force. While I did this certainly to get a chance to be in Phoenix (instead of Madison) for a couple of days in early March, I primarily

It’s time for another OHA Spotlight! Our blogger this month is Heather Welch, a PhD student at Georgia State University and a research assistant for the Oral History Association since 2015. This month marks the one year anniversary of the OHA Instagram, which Heather created and currently maintains. In this blog she discusses its conception.