OHMA is pleased to the announce the 2019 Travel Grant Recipient, Carlin Zia (2017) who will consider questions around transcription and creativity at 2019 Oral History Association annual meeting in Salt Lake City.
Reflections on the 2018 Oral History Association Annual Meeting
In this post, OHMA alumni and recipient of our alumni travel grant Lynn Lewis reflects on her experience presenting at the 2018 Oral History Association annual meeting in Montreal. The 2019 call for papers is now open!
2018 Oral History Association: It’s a Spirit
In this post, OHMA alumni and recipient of our alumni travel grant Svetlana Kitto reflects on her 2018 Oral History Association experience in Montreal.
Announcement of 2018 OHMA Alumni Conference Travel Award Recipient
Congratulations to Svetlana Kitto (2009), the recipient of our annual OHMA Alumni Conference Travel Award!
At the 2018 Oral History Association conference in Montreal, OHMA alum Svetlana Kitto will participate in both a panel and a roundtable, “Oral History in Dialogue: Community Organizing, New Documentary Work, and Our Changing Practice” and “Writing with Our Narrators' Words: Editing Oral History,” respectively. For the panel, she will give a paper on the dynamic and generative relationship between oral history and journalistic writing. For the roundtable, she will discuss her extensive, critically lauded work turning oral history into politically urgent, emotionally rich narrative writing.
OHMA is excited to support Svetlana’s exciting work in connecting oral history and journalism.
To learn more about Svetlana and her work please visit her professional website at: svetlanakitto.com
OHMA Co-Director Mary Marshall Clark Wins 2017 Forrest C. Pogue Award!
Mary Marshall Clark teaching prospective OHMA students and emerging oral historians at the recent One-Day Oral History Training Workshops at Columbia University. Photo credit: Emma Courtland.
Congratulations to OHMA Co-Director and Columbia Center for Oral History Research Director, MARY MARSHALL CLARK, on being awarded the 2017 Forrest C. Pogue Award from Oral History in the Mid-Atlantic Region! Mary Marshall has served on the OHMAR Board and is a lifetime member of the organization.
Read MoreAnnouncement of 2016 OHMA Alumni Conference Travel Award Recipient
Congratulations to Cindy Choung (2009), the first recipient of our annual OHMA Alumni Conference Travel Award! Cindy will be chairing a roundtable at the 2016 Oral History Association Annual Meeting in Long Beach, California, titled: “Storytelling the Environment: Environmental Activism, Science, and Storytelling within an Intersectional Framework.”
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