OHA News

Follow our weekly series, Throwback Thursday, designed to help celebrate 50 years of OHA. We’ll profile a year in the life of the organization each week with photos, logos, and highlights taken from the Oral History Association Newsletter. We welcome your memories, photos, and comments at oha@gsu.edu. OHA in 1981… Shirley Stephenson, Stephen Stern, and Stephen Colston, charter

Oral History Association International Scholarships Sixteen international scholarship applications were received this year and the decisions on which to fund were very challenging for the committee. In the end, five scholarships were awarded: Joana Craveiro, Portugal Marella Hoffman, UK Meera Anna Oommen, India Annie Pohlman, Australia Samantha Prendergast, Australia Congratulations to you all! Your attendance

Search for Host Institution and Executive Director Request for Proposals The Oral History Association (OHA), the principal organization of practicing oral historians in the United States, is seeking an institutional home for its executive office and staff effective January 1, 2018. As part of this search, the OHA plans to hire a new Executive Director

Follow our weekly series, Throwback Thursday, designed to help celebrate 50 years of OHA. We’ll profile a year in the life of the organization each week with photos, logos, and highlights taken from the Oral History Association Newsletter. We welcome your memories, photos, and comments at oha@gsu.edu. OHA in 1980… L-R Martha Ross, James W. Hammack, Jr., Collum

Registration is open for the 2016 Oral History Association annual meeting! The 2016 meeting will capture the spirit of the first National Colloquium on Oral History in 1966 by introducing lively theoretical and methodological discussion space, examining current and ongoing work, as well as looking toward the future of the field. The theme of “OHA@50: Traditions, Transitions

Follow our weekly series, Throwback Thursday, designed to help celebrate 50 years of OHA. We’ll profile a year in the life of the organization each week with photos, logos, and highlights taken from the Oral History Association Newsletter. We welcome your memories, photos, and comments at oha@gsu.edu. OHA in 1979… JFK Library, dedicated in 1979  OHA President Moss

Looking forward to the 2016 Annual Meeting By Sarah Milligan and Sady Sullivan OHA Program Co-Chairs As you surely know by now, 2016 is the 50th anniversary for the Oral History Association.  The 2016 annual meeting will capture the spirit of the first National Colloquium on Oral History in 1966 by introducing lively theoretical and

By Anne Valk, Williams College The extraordinary election season that we are currently enduring has given me many reasons to contemplate the relationship between history and memory.  A large field of candidates is rapidly winnowing to a handful albeit with many surprises along the way.  What seemed like a foregone conclusion last year — a

By Annie Valk, OHA President The tragic loss of our executive director and good friend Cliff Kuhn in 2015 was a blow to the OHA family.  As the organization’s first executive director, Cliff worked tirelessly with leadership and members to ensure the success of OHA into the future. As we move forward with important initiatives,

The Oral History Association has formed a committee to begin the search for an institutional home for its executive office beginning in early 2018.  As part of this process, the committee has also been charged with finding a new executive director to serve as its principal administrator. Georgia State University will house OHA and Kristine

By Tony Macaluso, Director of Syndication WFMT Radio Network & The Studs Terkel Radio Archive Studs Terkel is best known in the world of oral history for his many curiosity-driven books (Working, Hard Times, The Good War, Race) that helped popularize oral history among the general public starting in the 1970s. Those wildly influential books