Carrie Brave Heart joins the OHMA program from South Dakota. She
received her BS in History/Art History from Northern Arizona University
in 2010. She has a great love of Native American History and is excited in the possibilities resulting from the use of Oral History to add to the telling or use in the revision of traditional western historical narrative. In 2010, she began a project pertaining to artwork contained in the David Humphreys Miller Collection. This ongoing project’s purpose has been to locate living descendants of a group of Northern Plains Native American women, who Miller drew individual untitled portraits of, in the 1930’s. Her ultimate goal is to create biographies for each of these women to accompany their portraits, through the use of oral history interviews. Her current thesis work in the OHMA program is the Indian Village at the New York State Fair.
Joyce-Zoë Farley
Like most media professionals, I live my life in a perpetual "go to go" mentality and a to-do list that never ends. What makes me different? Passion. It drives everything I do and will do. Strange? Slightly, but I figure if there isn't a personal connection of some sort why bother. I'm a proud 2010 Hampton University graduate. At my "Home By The Sea" I studied broadcast journalism with a minor in business management. I graduated with both university and departmental honors
Aside from my passion driven life, as previously mentioned I'm a diverse media professional with experience in journalism (TV, radio and print), public relations and new media. Like many others in my field, I have lived and worked all over the country—D.C., Phoenix, Detroit and Cincinnati. The highlight of my young career is my summer spent interning in Detroit. I discovered in my three-month awakening that Detroit would become my life’s work and sole focus. I literally cannot have a conversation with someone without mentioning Detroit that is how much I love the city.
My time spent at Columbia will further support my professional and research endeavors. My thesis in the oral history program focuses on African-American history and culture. It is a multimedia project that leads to my doctoral dissertation at Michigan State University, where I will pursue an additional masters, as well as, a doctorate in African-American studies with concentrations in Public Policy and Film. Academically, my areas of research cover the span of a century starting with the Great Migration in 1917 and ending with the neo rebirth of civil rights in 2017. The pinnacle will be the riots of 1943, 1965, 1967, 1968 and 1992.
My overall goal is to be the quintessential game changer--an elected official in Michigan with plans to revitalize Detroit; a business owner with a philanthropic arm to help educate and serve the people and a college professor teaching classes on African-American history, urban development and cultural analysis.
All in all, by the time I turn 30, I can be addressed as Dr. Joyce-Zoë Farley.
Sheila Gilliam (2013)
Shelia Gilliam received her B.S. Ed. from Jackson State University and her M.Ed. from Lesley University in Curriculum and Instruction. She joins OHMA after completing a two year teaching stint in the United Arab Emirates. Prior to her international experience, she has worked as a public school educator for seventeen years. Throughout her career, she has participated with the Gilder Lehrman Institute, the Fannie Lou Hamer National Institute and Civic Voices International Memory Bank Project in which she facilitated a student led oral history project linking the Atlanta Student Movement with historic nonfiction.
Jacob Horton (2013)
Jacob Horton worked with the Nantucket Historical Association (NHA) for two years following graduation from the OHMA program. During that time, he developed content for a museum exhibition elucidating the experiences of Nantucket’s first-generation immigrant population, established a volunteer interviewing program, and organized the NHA’s standing oral history archive which holds oral records dating back to 1934.
He developed a series of social media products focused on sharing and highlighting oral history materials including a regular blog, mixed media content, and a 6-episode podcast titled “All Ears Nantucket.”
He is currently working for a biopharmaceutical corporation in Singapore as part of a multi-discipline design team, helping develop their ethnographic practices.
Janée A. Moses (2013)
Janée A. Moses is an oral historian and Ph.D. candidate in the department of American Culture at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Currently, she is working on her dissertation about the life and times of modern-day blues women, Amina Baraka, Nina Simone and Elaine Brown. In addition, Janée is conducting oral history interviews with women who participated in radical organizations and ascribed to 20th century iterations of black radical traditions. “‘And that's the way it was planned’: Toward a History of Post-War Black Girlhood” is an oral history project that endeavours to bridge emerging discourses of Black Girlhood studies and Black Power studies and argues that black girls born during and after World War II were impacted by social, political, and economic predicaments that necessitated the emergence of the black revolutionary woman ideal during the era of Black Power. Janée’s research interests include Gender, Women, and Sexuality studies, African American literature and culture, and social movement history.