The Margaret Walker Center invites proposals for papers, presentations, and panels for the 20th Annual Creative Arts & Scholarly Engagement (CASE) Festival, scheduled for Friday and Saturday, April 10 & 11, 2026. The CASE Festival will feature a keynote address by Dr. Evie Shockley, Director of Creative Writing and Writers and the Zora Neale Hurston […]
Oral History Association volunteers serving as officers, council members, and committee members lead and shape the organization. We are grateful for the time and service of so many talented individuals, and we invite more people to join in this process by nominating yourself or someone else to a leadership position. Help us move the organization […]
Three OHR authors/articles were awarded the top prizes for Best Article at the 2025 OHA Annual Meeting: This article describes Professor Chansky’s collaborative undergraduate oral history projects that worked with a variety of community partners to document Puerto Ricans’ experiences with Hurricane Maria and its aftermath, and serves as a model for other crisis oral […]
The Science History Institute (Philadelphia, PA) is currently recruiting for the full-time (35 hours per week) position of Program Associate, Center for Oral History. The Program Associate will focus on the maintenance and growth of the Institute’s oral history collection. Work includes processing audio/video recordings and transcripts; communication with interviewees; planning interviews for ongoing and […]
Announced by the OHA at their annual meeting in Atlanta, the Mason Multi-Media awards recognize “outstanding oral history projects, collections, exhibits, and multimedia presentations for the public.” According to Yolanda Hester, who chaired the committee that selected the winners and whose members included Max Peterson, Mark Caltrain and Simona Tobia, “As in previous years, we […]
December 10th at 6pm An online presentation by Kathryn Nasstrom A meeting of the OHS’ Environment and Climate Change Special Interest GroupThis presentation is situated at the juncture of two important trends in recent oral history research: 1- oral history and political violence; 2- oral histories of the land and environment. I take a case […]