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Oral History Works

Projects of the Columbia Oral History M.A. Program

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Observing Spring: Oral History, Language, and Translation as Possibility

October 23, 2025November 21, 2025 ohma

Jace Chen Chinese language policies, movement towards linguistic unification, and recent studies in dialect usage indicate that most Chinese dialects are becoming placeless. That the spaces to speak dialects are […]

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Artmaking As Intervention in Oral History Methodology: Painting Portraits of Queer/Trans South Asian Chosen Family

October 23, 2025November 3, 2025 ohma

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 […]

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RE-ROOTING ORALITY: ON PLANT ORAL HISTORIES IN PAREDONES, MICHOACAN, MEXICO

July 3, 2025 ohma

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 […]

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Chicago/Turabian Student Theses: StudentLastName, FirstName. “ThesisTitle.” Oral History master's thesis, Columbia University, YearofPublication. Student Audio Pieces: StudentLastName, FirstName. “AudioPieceTitle.” Oral History Works. Audio interview excerpt, NarratorFirstNameLastName, DateofPublication. SoundCloudURL. © All rights reserved to author.
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