OHA News

We are saddened to announce the death of Timuel Black, stalwart oral historian and activist. Please find the obituary here: https://chicago.suntimes.com/2021/10/13/20827314/timuel-black-historian-civil-rights-activist-author-obituary 

The Oral History Association invites nominations and volunteers to serve on the selection committee for “Diversifying Oral History Practice: A Fellowship Program for Under/Unemployed Oral Historians,” an initiative funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.  We will be awarding eleven $60,000 year-long fellowships, as well as up to twelve short-term research

          October 4, 2021 The Oral History Association has been awarded $825,000 from the NEH American Rescue Plan to create a fellowship program for under/unemployed oral historians, with a focus on oral historians from communities that have historically been marginalized in the field. The Oral History Association has been awarded $825,000

The Oral History Association’s Social Justice Task force would like to welcome OHA members to review and comment on the proposed report as an addition to the current Principles and Best Practices suite of documents. You can read the current draft of the for the proposed documents here: https://oralhistory.org/social-justice-task-force-commission-summary-and-recommendations-report/. Comment period: Members will have the next 25 days to

After the 2021 Annual Meeting, OHA President, Dan Kerr, appointed an Organization Restructuring Taskforce, comprised of Tomás Summers Sandoval (chair); Cynthia Tobar; Allison Tracy-Taylor (until February); and Yolanda Leyva (since April). The Taskforce’s charge was to review the current structure with respect to committees, task forces, and interest groups; review association documents and consult with current

The 2021 OHA election is open for all OHA members. The deadline to vote is Sept 1. Find the list of candidates (with a bio and personal statement for each) and vote using this form: https://oha.memberclicks.net/2021-election. Members will need to sign in with their membership profile in order to cast a vote. If you have any

By Dan Kerr August 2021 Newsletter              As we near the end of August, the OHA Executive Office, the program committee for the annual conference, the Council and our standing committees and taskforces are very busy completing work as we near our annual meeting, “Moving Stories,” this October. As I near the end of my

This year’s Annual Day of Giving will go toward helping OHA’s endowment reach $1 million. The endowment helps pay for scholarships to the Annual Meeting; helps us stage webinars and other professional outreach and education; allows us to support other oral history organizations like the International Oral History Association; helps support new initiatives like strategic