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Thesis Projects

Relationshapes

August 11, 2022August 11, 2022 ohma

Relationshapes Seth Langer

Thesis Projects

Real World History: Intergenerational Learning & Student Oral Histories of The Great Migration

October 31, 2021November 8, 2021 ohma

Real World History: Intergenerational Learning & Student Oral Histories of The Great Migration By Max Peterson Part retrospective, part analysis, and part lesson plan, this thesis is an investigation of […]

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“Tell Me About That World”

August 24, 2021August 30, 2021 ohma

Speculative Archives + Black Feminist Listening Practices By Taylor Wilson Thompson “Tell Me About That World” is an oral history project exploring the organizing practices, critical political stories, and hoped-for-futures […]

Short Audio and Video Pieces

Angeline Butler

June 18, 2021January 14, 2022 ohma

Angeline Butler By Brandon Perdomo, 2021 Angeline Butler – Civil Rights activist, playwright, musician – recalls growing up in farmland of South Carolina and the influence her environment had on […]

Short Audio and Video Pieces

“My Ideal Place”: Towards a Speculative Archive for Community Care

March 19, 2021January 14, 2022 ohma

“My Ideal Place”: Towards a Speculative Archive for Community Care By Taylor Thompson, 2021 Community care practitioner and founder of NourishNYC, Tania Maree Giordani, describes an ideal place she intends […]

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The International Phenomenon of Freedom Colonies: the original resistance, the archetypal safe spaces

June 3, 2020June 5, 2020 ohma

The International Phenomenon of Freedom Colonies: the original resistance, the archetypal safe spaces By Darold Cuba Since the inception of Western colonialism, the targeted peoples escaped the terrorism of Racialized […]

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Spectrum of Spirituality: On the Religious and Spiritual Experiences of Black Men and Their Relation to the Decline of the Black Church

November 15, 2019 ohma

Spectrum of Spirituality: On the Religious and Spiritual Experiences of Black Men and Their Relation to the Decline of the Black Church By Alissa Rae Funderburk The purpose of this […]

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Comparative Classrooms: Teaching to Transgress

November 15, 2019November 15, 2019 ohma

Comparative Classrooms: Teaching to Transgress By Valerie Fendt   Comparative Classrooms: Teaching to Transgress is the exhibit project that resulted from interviews with people whose life’s work is dedicated to […]

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From Meadowdale to Manhattan: Rides with Black Jesus

November 15, 2019 ohma

From Meadowdale to Manhattan: Rides with Black Jesus By Mark Campbell II   This project is a collection of stories based on and inspired by oral history interviews. These interviews […]

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The River Sings Songs and Tells Stories (2017)

November 21, 2017April 12, 2018 ohma

The River Sings Songs and Tells Stories: A Case for the Inclusion of Soundscapes in Oral History Practice Robin Miniter, 2017 This thesis is comprised of two parts: a paper […]

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Nueva York es La Frontera (2015)

July 22, 2016August 2, 2016 ohma

Nueva York es La Frontera Pablo Baeza, 2015 Found on nuevayorkeslafrontera.wordpress.com Nueva York es La Frontera is a multimedia documentary website showcasing the life stories of New York-based Latina immigrant […]

Interactive Exhibits

Listening Through Time and Place (2015)

July 22, 2016April 3, 2017 ohma

Listening Through Time and Place: An Interactive Oral History Exhibit By the 2015 OHMA Cohort, April 28, 2016 Co-Curated by Amy Starecheski, OHMA Associate Director & Sara Jacobs, 2015 Check […]

Short Audio and Video Pieces

Existential Cathexis: Patriotism (2015)

July 22, 2016August 2, 2016 ohma

Existential Cathexis: Patriotism By Geraldo Jay Scala, 2015 Listen to this edited audio piece through OHMA’s SoundCloud channel The following audio piece features Ed Shevlin, a robust, straight talking, tattooed […]

Interactive Exhibits

Then, Now, Next (2014)

July 21, 2016September 7, 2016 ohma

Then, Now, Next: Oral History and Social Change By the 2014 OHMA Cohort, May 1, 2015 Co-Curated by Amy Starecheski, OHMA Associate Director & Helen Gibb, 2014 Check out the […]

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Failure to Materialize (2013)

July 20, 2016August 2, 2016 ohma

Failure to Materialize: An Oral History of Puente de Fierro, A Memorial that Never Was By Allison Corbett, 2013 Engage with the crowdfunded campaign on indiegogo.com Memoria Presente (the documentary […]

Interactive Exhibits

The Social Hall (2013)

July 20, 2016September 2, 2016 ohma

The Social Hall: An Oral History Exhibit By the 2013 OHMA Cohort, May 1, 2014 Curated by Suzanne Snider, OHMA Fieldwork Instructor Check out the full event description on the […]

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Ambiguous Borders (2012)

July 19, 2016August 2, 2016 ohma

Ambiguous Borders: Exploring the Definitions of Community in Red Hook, Brooklyn By Shannon Geis, 2012 Found in the Academic Commons Follow the audio walking tour on ambiguousborders.org Engage with the […]

Interactive Exhibits

Oral History and Our Times & There is No There There (2012)

July 19, 2016September 2, 2016 ohma

Oral History and Our Times: Multimedia Oral History Showcase By the 2012 OHMA Cohort, May 2, 2013 Curated by Amy Starecheski, OHMA Associate Director Check out the full event description […]

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Wild Abandon (2011)

July 18, 2016August 2, 2016 ohma

Wild Abandon: A Documentation of Wyoming Lesbians By Katy Morris, 2011 Engage with the crowdfunded campaign on kickstarter.com Wild Abandon is sixty-minute documentary film that showcasing the complexities of rural […]

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