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The Oral History Association provides funding of up to $4,000 to undertake oral history research in situations of crisis in the United States and internationally. These funds may be applied to travel, per diem, or transcription costs for research in places and situations in which a longer application time schedule may be problematic. Such crisis […]

“The Quest for Democracy: One Hundred Years of Struggle“ 2020 OHA Annual MeetingOctober 21-24, 2020Hyatt RegencyBaltimore, Maryland The Poster Submission Portal is open. See the full Call for Posters. We invite submissions for a poster session and project bazaar that will be held at the Oral History Association Conference on October 21-24, 2020 at the Hyatt Regency Inner

By Louis Kyridakoudes This past December, I led a delegation of 14 people from the Oral History Association on a week-long tour of Cuba. Despite recent changes by the current administration intended to make it more difficult to travel to Cuba, American citizens can still travel to the Caribbean’s largest island. Traveling with OHA colleagues

By Allison K. Tracy-Taylor I’m excited to announce a new award structure for the Oral History Association. Every year the OHA gives a number of awards to recognize outstanding work in various facets of the field. With feedback from members, awardees and award committee members, the Awards Task Force, led by Past President Todd Moye

“The Quest for Democracy: One Hundred Years of Struggle“ 2020 OHA Annual MeetingOctober 21-24, 2020Hyatt RegencyBaltimore, Maryland The submission portal for conference proposals is closed. The new deadline is February 17, 2020. Please note that you will have to create a new account, even if you have submitted conference proposals in the past or are a

In October, 2019, a member of the Oral History Society (OHS) shared with the OHA Council a letter written by the OHS’s LGBTQ Special Interest Group regarding the International Oral History Association’s (IOHA) 2020 conference in Singapore. This letter brings up important issues regarding locations for any association’s annual meeting, and how the sites selected

By Kristine McCusker             Why does the OHA choose a specific conference site? What’s a food and beverage budget? Why can’t we hold our conference in Tennessee (or Alabama or Mississippi or Iowa)?              After each conference, we get suggestions regarding where to hold our next conference, and I thought it might be useful for the Executive Office to

By Allison K. Tracy-Taylor As 2019 comes to an end, I’m happy to reflect on a very busy fall for the Oral History Association. In October we met in Salt Lake City for our annual meeting, and what a meeting it was. We held concurrent meetings with the Southwest Oral History Association, and it was

We want you to continue your connection to the OHA network of oral historians!  It’s never been easier to renew your membership: Current members will receive a renewal reminder email with instructions You can visit our Membership Site, and click the blue “Join or Renew Now” Button Or you can fill out and mail in

In partnership with the American Folklore Society, the Oral History Association is hosting a webinar on“Finding Common Ground at the Intersection of Cultural Sustainability and Oral History,” December 11, 2019, 1:00-2:30 pm EST. Amy Skillman, director of the Goucher College Master of Arts in Cultural Sustainability program, and former OHA President Linda Shopes will present a webinar on the intersections between oral history practice

Allison Tracy-Taylor is an independent oral historian based in Sacramento, California. She began her work in oral history in 2002 at the University of Nevada Oral History Program (UNOHP), eventually interviewing for a multi-year project on the history of women’s athletics at the University of Nevada. Returning to the UNOHP as its coordinator in 2009,