OHA News

The Oral History Association has recently concluded its national search for a new institutional home and its first executive director. The process began last year, when Dickinson College informed us that it was not in a position to renew its contract. We are pleased to announce that the search is over, and OHA has signed a five-year […]

This year all current OHA members as of July 15 will have the opportunity to vote in our new online election process.  Simply use the URL : https://www.balloteer.com/bp/nph-bstart?&eid=7952218098575260 Deadline: September 21, 2012 You will need your membership number which was printed on an election card that was recently mailed.  If you did not receive a

The Oral History Review’s Section on Pedagogy Across the country and throughout the world, grade to graduate school teachers, professors, and program coordinators are integrating oral history into their pedagogical practice.  In order to capture the transformative power of oral history as an educational methodology, the Oral History Review, the journal of the Oral History

Nonprint Award: At Home in Utopia (film), Michal Goldman and Ellen Brodsky, Co-producers

Emerging Crises Research Fund grant: Sawt, women’s participation in the January Revolution in Egypt.

The Nakba Archive has recorded over 650 interviews about the expulsion of Palestinians from their homes and lands in 1948.

Martha Ross Teaching Award: Rosie Uyola, Edison High School Story Corps

Non-Print Format Honorable Mention: Joanna Hay and the Louis B. Nunn Center, University of Kentucky for the documentary, Quest for the Perfect Bourbon: Voices of the Buffalo Trace Distillery.

Living with Jim Crow: African American Women and Memories of the Segregated South by Anne Valk and Leslie Brown.