OHA News

Celebrating the release of Volume 40.1 of the Oral History Review, OHR Managing Editor Troy Reeves and contributors Anne Valk and Holly Ewald have a conversation about the Mashapaug Project, a collaborative community arts and oral history project on a pond in Providence, Rhode Island. Please give it a listen here.

The Oral History Review’s editorial team would like to welcome our newest member! David Caruso, Oral History Program Manager at the Chemical Heritage Foundation, will join the OHR as our book review editor. Along with his work at CHF, David has worked with Oral History in the Mid-Atlantic Region (OHMAR), a vibrant, regional oral history

The Oral History Association and new Executive Director Cliff Kuhn are highlighted in a new article from the Chronicle of Higher Education: Georgia State U. Scholar Leads Strengthened Oral-History Group The Oral History Association’s first-ever executive director, Clifford M. Kuhn, must lead it through the rocky terrain of legal challenges and digital advances.

The Georgia Humanities Council (GHC), in partnership with the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Oral History Association (OHA), is sponsoring the first-look of a new webcasting technology that we believe will be of interest to educators, museum professionals, libraries, offices, and others. Developed by the Independent Television Service (ITVS), with support from the

The OHA is delighted to announce the hiring of Gayle Knight as the new program associate in the OHA executive office. Gayle brings outstanding credentials to the position. For the past five years, she has been the housing and registration coordinator for the Society of Biblical Literature, a scholarly organization which in conjunction with the

The Oral History Association announces a grant of up to $4,000 to undertake oral history research in situations of crisis research 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.

 Hidden Stories, Contested Truths: The Craft of Oral History 2013 OHA Annual Meeting October 9 – October 13, 2013 The Skirvin Hilton Hotel Oklahoma City, OK Deadline: January 18, 2013  The 2013 annual meeting of the Oral History Association will offer an opportunity to showcase the ways in which oral history has been used to

With the arrival of the new issue of the Oral History Review, the OHR’s editorial team wants to announce the arrival of its new effort to reach current and future OHA members (and OHR subscribers) through social media. Click here  to read more about this initiative. We who are leading our new social media effort

This year, for the first time, an oral history THATCamp is being held in conjunction with the Oral History Association conference.  In order for this event to go forward, we need to have at least 25 people registered by September 21st. If you were considering signing up for this THATCamp, please do so as quickly