Desire On The Line:Oral Histories of Absence and Return
Desire On The Line: Oral Histories of Absence and Return is a multimodal thesis on how people sustain attachment when bodies cannot be together. It centers on Humsafar, a listening […]
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Heirlooming: Rethinking Memory and Relationality through Embodiment and Collapsed Time
In this thesis, Hilary Seeley presents an intervention into the standard scholarly practice of oral history and an invitation to holistic memory work. Confronting the limitations and losses of the […]
Memory Work & Shifting Lens: What Remembering Makes New (Methodological Statement & Reflection)
This thesis employs oral history methods to document the educational journey of the interviewer’s mother, contributing to a broader effort to recover and center often unrecorded stories of women’s lives […]
LAKOU SEKRÈ // SAKRE
LAKOU SEKRÈ // SAKRE is an altar to the queer Haitian experience in Brooklyn. The participatory, oral history installation is inspired by el secreto abierto, or the open secret ~ […]
Observing Spring: Oral History, Language, and Translation as Possibility
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 […]
Thicker Than Blood
Leigh Pennington Identity is a decision that is concluded ahead of a person’s time on earth and can be unmade in that same lifetime. Those who come before us have […]
Microphones & Brushes: An Exercise in Radical Engagement
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 […]
Reimagining the Family Archive as a Multidimensional Space
Reimagining the Family Archive as a Multidimensional Space Margie Cook
What I Saw In My Early Years
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 […]
There’s No Place Like Home
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 […]
Uncertain Journeys
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, […]
THE 40% PROJECT: An Oral History of Gun Violence in America
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 […]
Intersecting Histories: The Story of Her Skin
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 […]
From Meadowdale to Manhattan: Rides with Black Jesus
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 […]
The New Normal: Generational Understandings of the Aftermath of September 11, 2001 and to Today (2019)
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 […]
Finding Fathers: Navigating Uncertainty in the Oral History Interview (2017)
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, […]
A Country Between (2012)
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 […]