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Projects of the Columbia Oral History M.A. Program

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Desire On The Line:Oral Histories of Absence and Return

February 6, 2026February 18, 2026 ohma

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 

February 6, 2026February 19, 2026 ohma

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 […]

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Memory Work & Shifting Lens: What Remembering Makes New (Methodological Statement & Reflection) 

February 6, 2026February 18, 2026 ohma

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 […]

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Waiting for the Wind to Change: Oral Histories in the Post-Soviet Diaspora, Brighton Beach

February 6, 2026February 18, 2026 ohma

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 […]

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LAKOU SEKRÈ // SAKRE

February 6, 2026February 18, 2026 ohma

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 ~ […]

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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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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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