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“The Creation of an Emerging Latino/Latinx Oral Historians Fellowship Program” The goal is to create a team of oral historians and to provide them with mentors and training to further develop an existing historical timeline for Rhode Island Latino history. By training the next generation to become oral historians Marta will show how oral history […]

April 5, 2022 The Oral History Association announces eleven recipients of year-long fellowships for under/unemployed oral historians, funded by an $825,000 grant from the NEH American Rescue Plan. In October 2021 the Oral History Association was awarded $825,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan: Humanities Grantmaking [Funding Opportunity Number: […]

Assessing the Role of Race and Power in Oral History Theory and Practice On June 27, 28, and 29, 2022, oral historians from around the world will gather virtually for three days of discussion about the role of race and power in oral history theory and practice. Organized as a symposium, discussions will be based […]

The Oral History Association condemns the Russian invasion of Ukraine and its indiscriminate  bombing and killing of Ukrainian civilians.  We are appalled by the destruction of hospitals, universities, museums, and historic sites. The invasion has been justified in ways that erase and render invisible the history of Ukrainian people and their subjective experiences of Russian […]

By Kristine McCusker February 2022 Newsletter The OHA Executive Office is happy to report that we are well along our National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship grant. We received almost 180 applications for year long and short-term fellowships, and our committee of panelists, led by Kelly Navies, is hard at work evaluating the outstanding submissions. […]