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 […]
Will You Remember? What I Choose to Forget?
Will You Remember What I Choose to Forget? is a 150-minute oral history documentary film created with my own family across two domestic spaces in Shimla, North India: the old […]
All The Space You Cannot See
All The Space You Cannot See is a film and companion piece about my mother, who is deceased. It is an attempt to see her face and hear her voice, […]
Oral History Techniques for Ballet Class: Migration and Memory in Cuban Pedagogy
Oral History Techniques for Ballet Class follows the career trajectories of three Cuban ballet teachers who have migrated to the United States, exploring how they have adapted and translated Cuban […]
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 […]
Working with Uncertainty: Censorship, Inductive Reasoning, and Creative Practice in Chinese Tongren Communities
Digital censorship in the People’s Republic of China operates as a condition of uncertainty: posts disappear without warning, visibility shifts without explanation, and creators are left to infer boundaries from […]
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 […]
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 […]
Black DJ Renaissance: An Oral History of Black Women DJs; DJing as Storytelling and Art Practice
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 […]
Oversea and Overseen: Oral History of Gay Chinese Migrants to New York City
Oversea and Overseen: Oral History of Gay Chinese Migrants to New York City Yu Cui This study attempts to answer two questions: What role does desire play in LGBT migration, […]
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 […]
A Labor of/for Love: Bridging Intergenerational Dis/connection in a Modern World
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 […]
Artistic In/Hindsight: Art-Based Oral History Research of the Pandemic
Artistic In/Hindsight: Art-Based Oral History Research of the Pandemic Yuying Wu This thesis delves into the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic through the lens of diverse artists’ expressions. Utilizing art-based […]
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 […]
Foundational Documents for Culture Without Borders Language Collective, LLC, A Sustainable World Language School
Foundational Documents for Culture Without Borders Language Collective, LLC, A Sustainable World Language School Lindsay Szper Lindsay Szper used her time at OHMA — and the knowledge, resources, and community […]
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 […]
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. […]
COLLAPSING TIME: INDIGENOUS STORYTELLERS AND THE ‘EVERYWHEN’
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 […]
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 […]
Purged out of Chinese Internet: An Oral History of Individuals Who Experienced “Digital Death” on Social Media
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 […]
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 […]
A Cute and Nice Oral History of Dave’s Lesbian Bar
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 […]
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 […]
The Queens Night Market Vendor Stories Oral History Project in 2020: Pandemic Pivots, Media Moments, and Narrator Care Questions
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 […]
The Brick
The Brick <deep inhale> Tamara Santibañez The brick occupies a singular role in the radical political imagination: not only as an object and tool, but also as a site and […]
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 […]