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 […]
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 […]
Gloria Mogango Alumbi Ma Ekonzo “Am I My Culture’s Keeper?”, is an exploration of cultural identity, belonging, and the preservation of heritage among the African diaspora, particularly focusing on the […]
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 […]
Maya Gayer This thesis project documents and explores the Israeli Democracy Protest Movement through an oral history archive, containing over 20 interviews with its leading organizers. The movement emerged following […]
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 […]
Asha Burtin Black DJ Renaissance: An Oral History of Black Women DJs; DJing as Storytelling and Art Practice is a study and oral history project that aims to explore and […]
Re/searching in Second Spring Ru-Jün Zhou An experimental approach to oral history, focusing on the midlife experiences of Chinese immigrant and Chinese American women, is presented through a spiral research […]
A Labor of/for Love: Bridging Intergenerational Dis/connection in a Modern World Ambar Johnson How does our relationship with work impact our ability to relate to our relatives? This project seeks […]
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 […]
Seashores of Narratives: Collecting Conchs in the Intertwined Korean World Keren Piao The current English research on the Korean Diaspora, especially oral history projects, is based on Korean Americans 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 […]
Runa Simita Yuyarispa, Runa Simipi Kausaspa Natalie Naranjo-Morett Explore this oral history project and virtual exhibit that centers on how collaboration with the local communities from the Andean region allows […]
South of the River Pengyuan Hu I thought about my attachment to laowu, to the pond at the front and the winding village paths leading to the old house. I […]
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 […]
Purged out of Chinese Internet: An Oral History of Individuals Who Experienced “Digital Death” on Social Media Caiwei Chen As social media platforms become increasingly important sites for civic engagement […]
Queer Florida: Speculative Southern Oral Histories Han Powell Queer Florida is a multimedia oral history project documenting the stories of LGBTQ+ people who are making efforts to organize, create, and […]
Umubano mu Bantu: Love Among People Ornella U. Baganizi During one of our interviews, I asked my father what his favorite song was. He answered, Umubano mu Bantu by Francois […]
The Two Years Stolen: An Oral History of how Covid Influenced our Life Paths Yiwen Li When people talk about covid-19, what are they talking about? The rising numbers of […]
Did you see how many things I told you? Martina Lancia “Did you see how many things I told you?” is a research project based on interviews conducted both in […]
A Cute and Nice Oral History of Dave’s Lesbian Bar Kae Bara Kratcha A Cute and Nice Oral History of Dave’s Lesbian Bar follows the mutual aid origins of Astoria’s […]
This Is Not My Beautiful House Casey Dooley This Is Not My Beautiful House is an oral history of the life, death, and rebirth of a turn-of-the-century home. Buttressed by interests in […]
Roots of Silence: How Retracing My Family’s WWII Escape Routes and Bearing Witness to Their Breaking of Long-Held Silences Unexpectedly Led Me to Compassion, an Open Heart, and My Voice […]
The Queens Night Market Vendor Stories Oral History Project in 2020: Pandemic Pivots, Media Moments, and Narrator Care Questions Storm Garner In 2019, I cowrote a mass market cookbook-with-oral-histories in […]
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 […]
Teachers All Around Us: Intergenerational Conversations & Student Oral Histories By Max Peterson, 2021 Cosby Hunt, a high school social studies teacher in Washington, DC, reflects on his initial experiences […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
