In this thesis, interdisciplinary artist and oral historian Ananya Garg proposes artmaking, through her series of 100 oil-painted vignettes, as an intervention into family oral history methodology. Her collection of […]
Clarissa Shane The oral transmission of plant knowledge particularly their medicinal usages enriches relations to the land. How can plants/nonhuman be recognized for their ‘personhood’? Respect for the nonhuman is […]
Bernadette Bisbing Remembering Roy After Gentrification is an oral history thesis about the separate and unequal experiences of people in Santa Fe, NM. On the one hand, it has the […]
Florencia Ruiz Mendoza American history and its foundational myths will only be completed if we include Indigenous history in our historical and foundational narrative. The Wupatki pueblos of Arizona tell […]
Shuai Dang This thesis explores the changing role of oral history in writing history in China and the United States and its impact on historical memory. It mainly focuses on […]
Romy David This thesis explores the lived experiences of two women who were forced to travel out of their home state to access crucial abortion care, examining how personal narratives […]
Tidal Notes: A Critical Oral History of Asian and Asian/American Student Organizing at Barnard College and Columbia University, 1990s/2020s Solby Lim Tidal Notes: A Critical Oral History of Asian and […]
The Silence is Quiet/Loud and Un/Clear: Deriving Meaning from Intentional Silence Rattana Bounsouaysana This paper and interview explores the testimonial of a Lao refugee who was displaced from his home […]
Eating Asian: Listening to Asiatic Femininity in the Kitchen Ariel Urim Chung My mom was a stay-at-home-mom. But the ‘stay-at-home’ part always felt inadequate, because she never stayed at home. […]
Quality Assured: Auto Worker Stories from the Chrysler Newark, Delaware Assembly Plant Meave Sheehan This audio documentary highlights the perspectives of four former employees of the Chrysler auto factory in […]
COLLAPSING TIME: INDIGENOUS STORYTELLERS AND THE ‘EVERYWHEN’ Bronte Gosper Too often, Indigenous voices encounter over-mystification, Indigenous testimonies are romanticized, and the ever-nodding head of (often well-meaning) non-indigenous listeners belabours our […]
Finding Uncle Cesar Tyler Brady After Angel learned of his long-estranged Uncle Cesar’s death to COVID-19, he was unable to locate his body. I spoke with Angel in early 2022 […]
“That Something Else”: Botkin, Portelli and Ellison on Democratic Pluralism and the Dialogical Encounter Benji de la Piedra, 2014 Featured project in the 2016 Thesis Showcase Series, “Oral History: From […]
