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 […]
Sociology
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 […]
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 […]
Embodied Storytelling: A Reality of Barriers to Abortion Access
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
This Is Not My Beautiful House
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 […]
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 […]