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Microphones & Brushes: An Exercise in Radical Engagement

August 11, 2022February 7, 2023 ohma

Microphones & Brushes: An Exercise in Radical Engagement Sach Takayasu This thesis illustrates the narrator’s experience growing up in Japan during increasingly oppressive and dangerous times in the 1930s through […]

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Reimagining the Family Archive as a Multidimensional Space

August 11, 2022 ohma

Reimagining the Family Archive as a Multidimensional Space Margie Cook

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What I Saw In My Early Years

March 14, 2021January 14, 2022 ohma

What I Saw In My Early Years By Nina Zhou, 2021 This interview is set against the backdrop of the Chinese Exclusion Era in Toronto, Canada. Many Chinese families were […]

Short Audio and Video Pieces

There’s No Place Like Home

March 12, 2021January 14, 2022 ohma

There’s No Place Like Home By Casey Dooley, 2021 Inspired by an interest in architecture and memory, this edited interview excerpt revolves around a house in Rahway, a New Jersey […]

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Uncertain Journeys

December 13, 2019December 23, 2019 ohma

 Uncertain Journeys By Carlin Liu Zia Uncertain Journeys is an oral history and epic poem documenting the life of Paul Zung Teh Zia, as told to and heard by his granddaughter, […]

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THE 40% PROJECT: An Oral History of Gun Violence in America

November 15, 2019August 27, 2020 ohma

THE 40% PROJECT: An Oral History of Gun Violence in America By Holly Werner-Thomas   With 110,000 Americans shot every year, gun violence is a public health crisis. Indeed, forty […]

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Intersecting Histories: The Story of Her Skin

November 15, 2019November 15, 2019 ohma

Intersecting Histories: The Story of Her Skin By Nyssa Chow   For the women born in the 1920s in Trinidad and Tobago it was often the women who kept the […]

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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 New Normal: Generational Understandings of the Aftermath of September 11, 2001 and to Today (2019)

February 14, 2019 ohma

The New Normal: Generational Understandings of the Aftermath of September 11, 2001 and to Today By Kyna Patel This thesis examines the experiences and understandings of Muslims and non-Muslims of Middle Eastern […]

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Finding Fathers: Navigating Uncertainty in the Oral History Interview (2017)

September 25, 2018September 25, 2018 ohma

FINDING FATHERS: NAVIGATING UNCERTAINTY IN THE ORAL HISTORY INTERVIEW  By Emma Courtland, 2017 In his essay “Listen to Their Voices,” the former director of Columbia’s Center for Oral History Research, […]

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A Country Between (2012)

July 19, 2016August 2, 2016 ohma

A Country Between: An Iranian American Journey By Kyana Moghadam, 2012 Found on acountrybetween.com A Country Between is a collection of life history interviews conducted with Iranian Americans, explored and retold […]

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