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 […]
Waiting for the Wind to Change: Oral Histories in the Post-Soviet Diaspora, Brighton Beach
This thesis, Waiting for the Wind to Change, is a documentary novel that examines how individuals navigate uncertainty. It is based on six oral history interviews with people the author […]
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 […]
Artmaking As Intervention in Oral History Methodology: Painting Portraits of Queer/Trans South Asian Chosen Family
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 […]
RE-ROOTING ORALITY: ON PLANT ORAL HISTORIES IN PAREDONES, MICHOACAN, MEXICO
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 […]
Two Worlds Divided: Intergenerational Conflicts Between China’s Gen X and Gen Z
Kangni Wang This study explores the intergenerational dynamics between China’s Generation X and Generation Z, highlighting how differences in historical, economic, and political contexts have shaped their values, behaviors, and […]
In Defense of Democracy: An Oral History Archive of the Israeli Democracy Protest Movement
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 […]
Re/searching in Second Spring
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 […]
Tidal Notes: A Critical Oral History of Asian and Asian/American Student Organizing at Barnard College and Columbia University, 1990s/2020s
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
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 […]
South of the River
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 […]
Eating Asian: Listening to Asiatic Femininity in the Kitchen
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. […]
Reframing Archives – Individuals & Imaginative Inventories
Reframing Archives – Individuals & Imaginative Inventories Dharini Chand We all tend to share a curated version of ourselves with the world. In doing so, the rest of us—our identity […]
Umubano mu Bantu: Love Among People
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
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 […]
34th Avenue Oral History: Place-based Storytelling in Jackson Heights
34th Avenue Oral History: Place-based Storytelling in Jackson Heights Bridget Bartolini This project tells the story of the 34th Avenue Open Street and what it means to people who use […]
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
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 […]
Fuerza: On finding inner strength to build our new normal
Fuerza: On finding inner strength to build our new normal By Nairy AbdELShafy FUERZA is a reflective manual inspired by Puerto Rican oral history narratives of Hurricane María. It aims […]