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Now Open: Scholarships for Attending the 2025 Annual Meeting!

Now Open: Scholarships for Attending the 2025 Annual Meeting!

Whether you’re presenting, not presenting, or from outside the U.S., you can request funding from the OHA to help offset the cost of attending the 2025 Annual Meeting! The Oral History Association has a scholarship fund to support people who are presenting at the Annual Meeting. OHA encourages applications from a diverse group of people […]

Fill Out Our Survey: Gathering Perspectives on IRBs!

Fill Out Our Survey: Gathering Perspectives on IRBs!

The Oral History Association is updating its guidance on Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) and the ways in which their operation relates to the research of oral historians. Please share your experiences in our survey that will be open through June 13, 2025. Your input on this is essential as we work to offer the best […]

Shannon Senior Historian & Assistant Director @ Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies

Shannon Senior Historian & Assistant Director @ Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies

Deadline: June 15, 2025 About the Thomas Jefferson Foundation:The Thomas Jefferson Foundation has a twofold mission of preservation and education, and was incorporated in 1923 to preserve Monticello, the home of Thomas Jefferson, in Charlottesville, Virginia. Today, the Foundation seeks to bring history forward into national and global dialogues by engaging audiences with Jefferson’s world […]

OHR Extra! Posts Highlight Oral History and Disability

OHR Extra! Posts Highlight Oral History and Disability

To supplement this spring’s issue of the Oral History Review, which features a Special Section on Oral History and Disability, we present in Extra! two project-based posts, and an author interview. The Author Interview is with Nora Ellen Groce, author of the book featured in our Classics Revisited column, Everyone Here Spoke Sign Language: Hereditary Deafness on Martha’s Vineyard. […]

Head of the Eberly Family Special Collections Library @ Pennsylvania State University

Head of the Eberly Family Special Collections Library @ Pennsylvania State University

Location: University Park, PA 16802 The Pennsylvania State University Libraries seeks applications for the position of Head of the Eberly Family Special Collections Library. Reporting to the Associate Dean for Distinctive Collections and Digital Strategies, this tenure-line faculty librarian position provides strategic leadership and administration of the Special Collections Library (SCL). This position will build […]

Oral History Fellowship @ California State Parks

Oral History Fellowship @ California State Parks

Review of interest forms will begin on May 5, 2025. Description: California State Parks in the Capital District (Sacramento Region) seeks graduate students or early-career professionals with an interest in museums for a fellowship program starting in July 2025. Fellows will undertake an oral history project at either the California State Railroad Museum or the […]