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Committee on Diversity Resource List
Oral History Professionals
A listing of of oral history professionals who are willing to train and/or serve as advisors to others in the field, compiled by Claytee White (University of Nevada, Las Vegas). This list is maintained by the Committee on Diversity and has not been vetted by the OHA Council.
NAME: Bob Leedom
PROGRAM: Sound Memories on CD
CONTACT INFORMATION
818 Solly Avenue
Philadelphia, PA 19111
Phone:215.745.0754
Available to perform oral history interviews. Has hardware/software to edit and mix audio for a project. Member of OHMAR and Association of Personal Historians. Experience: Veterans History Project at Library of Congress.
Services offered: Interviews senior citizens/grandparents and gives a professionally-prepared set of CD-Rs to the interviewees and their families.
NAME: Jajuan Johnson, Oral History Coordinator
PROGRAM: Butler Center for Arkansas Studies
CONTACT INFORMATION
100 Rock Street
Little Rock, AR 72201
Phone: 501.918.3089
Fax: 501.375.7451
jajohnson@cals.lib.ar.us
Projects-In-Progress: Butler Center for Arkansas Studies (History Archive and Outreach Center, Central Arkansas Library System) establishing initiative to collect, interpret and share information about history of Arkansas. Interviewing efforts will complement materials in Central Arkansas Library System; Bill Clinton State Government project and book and archival collections dealing with the former president’s pre-presidential service. Butler Center also developing digital audio archive and partnering with Mosaic Templars Cultural Center (museum of the Department of Arkansas Heritage) to make accessible the oral history collection on Arkansas African American history.
Services offered: willing to train/advise other sin the areas of oral history project development; utilization of digital equipment, community outreach efforts, and developin partnerships with history organizations, etc.
NAME: Geneva Wiskemann
PROGRAM: Special Collections and Archives, Wright State University Libraries
CONTAC INFORMATION
MOHA
5580 West State Road
Lansing, MI 48906-9325
Phone: 517.321.1746
gwiskemann@arg.net
http://www.h-net.org/~oralhist/moha/
Projects-In-Progress: The Inventory, the first project of the Michigan Oral History Association, late Michigan Oral History Council, was created to match oral history products with researchers.
Services Offered: conducts workshops and participates in events in Michigan and beyond. A protocol and sample contract explains services of the educational team and responsibilities of sponsor and presenters.
NAME: Susan Becker, Program Manager
PROGRAM: Maria Rogers Oral History Program
CONTACT INFORMATION
Carnegie Branch Library for Local History
1125 Pine Street
Boulder, CO 80302
Phone: 303.441.3110
beckers@boulder.lib.co.us
View/Listen to oral histories: www.bplcarnegie.org/oralhistory
Search oral histories: http://nell.boulder.lib.co.us/search~S7
Projects-In-Progress: Interviews document all aspects of life in Boulder, County, Colorado with emphasis on history of Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Plant; agriculture; mining; open space; and city planning. Thirty years old collection contains more than 1,400 interviews with 100 added annually by a team of 30 volunteers. All interviews are digitized with full audio and summaries/transcripts available via Internet.
Services Offered: advice on audio digitization; transcription; creating Internet accessibility for interviews; and conducting community oral history programs using volunteers
NAME: Dr. Curtis Austin, Co-Director
PROGRAM: The Center for Oral History & Cultural Heritage
CONTACT INFORMATION
The University of Southern Mississippi
118 College Drive #5175
Hattiesburg, MS 39406
Phone: 601.266.4574
Fax: 601.266.6217
curtis.j.austin@usm.edu
Projects-in-Progress:
Public Programming
Mississippi History Now – online publication of the Mississippi
Historical Society. Portions are online as a resource for K-12 teachers.
Mississippi Moments - radio program on Mississippi Public
Broadcasting featuring segments from the Center’s Oral History Program. Segments highlight history and culture of the state.
Roots Reunion - twice-yearly live radio show and concert featuring
traditional music of southern part of the state.
Grant Projects
Hurricane Katrina Oral History Project – documents impact upon Mississippi and the South. Works with scholars within the state and others to collect interviews reflecting diversity of experience with the storm itself.
Mississippi Veterans Project – documents experiences of Mississippians in the wars of the twentieth century as well as Iraqi conflict.
Civil Rights Era in Mississippi – National Endowment for the Humanities Preservation and Access Grant focuses on working with significant civil rights oral histories at three partner institution (The Center for Oral History and Culture at USM; Tougaloo College; and Mississippi Department of Archives and History). Goal is to bring recordings up to national specifications; digitize as many as possible; index interviews and sites; and increase public access by making collections searchable.
Mobile Bouie Oral History Project – series of thirty interviews with residents of this historically segregated section of Hattiesburg. These interviews focus on the history and will be the basis for a public museum project.
Turkey Creek Neighborhood Oral History Project – interviews with residents document the encroaching commercial development. Turkey Creek in Gulfport is designated one of the most endangered historical places in the state. The interviews and public program will help residents better record their own history and emphasize the continuing importance of the community both locally and regionally.
Hands on the Freedom Plow – exhibit on the 1960s Civil Rights Movement features a traveling photo and document exhibit. This program features scholars and participants of the movement with a special emphasis on the legacy for today’s youth.
NAME: Sarah Moorhead
PROGRAM: Mesa Historical Society
CONTACT INFORMATION
250 E. Hackamore Street
Mesa, Arizona 85201
Phone: 480.962.6227
Projects-in-Progress: Oral histories of mesa citizens dating to the 1940s. Seeking diverse interviewees and pioneer families. Digitizing interviews conducted in the mid-1970s-1980s through A Sound Model by the Collaborative Digitization Project.
Services Offered: will mentor others with their oral history projects and offer oral history workshops for a nominal fee.
NAME: Jaime Partsch McMillan, Director
PROGRAM: The Jesús T. Pinero Collection
CONTACT INFORMATION
Universidad del Este Carolina
Puerto Rico
Phone: 787.257.7373 ext. 2523
jpartsch@mail.SUAGM.EDU
Projects-in-Progress:
The Jesús T. Pinero Collection is located within the library system of the Universidad del Este Carolina and is a collection of documents, books and memorabilia of Puerto Rico’s first native governor. It also contains works related to Puerto Rican history of the 20th century, particularly U.S.-Puerto Rico relations. An oral history project on the life of Governor Pinero has aided in the restoration of the gubernatorial home and in the writing and publication of his biography.
Puerto Nuveo documents a massive 1940s housing project, the largest (4,000 units) in the world and sponsored in part by Governor Pinero. In cooperation with community organizations, the Universidad seeks to rescue this history.
NAME: Troy Reeves, Oral Historian
PROGRAM: Idaho State Historical Society Public Archives
and Research Library
CONTACT INFORMATION
2205 Old Penitentiary Road
Boise, Idaho 83712-8250
Phone: 208.514.2325 or 208.334.3863
Fax: 208.334.3198
Troy.reeves@ishs.idaho.gov
Projects-in-Progress: Idaho State Capitol oral history project; Veterans History Project; Prop One (1994) oral history project (designed to codify state’s relationship with gays and lesbians); Refugee Oral History Project (recent immigrants from late 1970s-present).
Services Offered: will talk to, email or meet anyone in Idaho or elsewhere willing to learn more about oral history.
Needs: more staff, volunteers, interns and funds.
NAME: Leslie Simon
PROGRAM: City College of San Francisco
Women’s Studies Department
CONTACT INFORMATION
lsimon@ccsf.edu
Projects-in-Progress:
Services Offered: oral history course taught at extension campuses in diverse ethnic communities in San Francisco.
Needs: need resources or ideas for support.
NAME: Lia Vella, Park Ranger/Site Historian
PROGRAM: John Day Fossil Beds National Monument
CONTACT INFORMATION
Lia_Vella@nps.gov
Projects-in-Progress: oral history project documents culture of early -20th century sheep ranchers and immigrants from England, Scotland and Wales.
NAME: Val Burgess
PROGRAM: War’s Voices
CONTACT INFORMATION
vburgess@fiberpipe.nete
Projects-in-Progress: a non-profit funding organization, War’s Voices is developing an Internet archive utilizing over 100+ oral histories of Allied Air crews held at Stalag Luft III, the Great Escape prison camp of WWII fame. The project provides a whole-system approach to learning and an opportunity to teach history, math, science, problem-solving and leadership. Sound, video, film, photographs, historic documents, personal papers, diaries, periodicals and ancillary information will be used as teaching tools in educational modules for 9th grade through college level.
NAME: Jessica Alpert
PROGRAM: Fulbright Scholar
CONTACT INFORMATION
Jessicaalpert@yahoo.com
www.storylistener.blogspot.com
Projects-in-Progress: compiling oral history of the 60-family Jewish community in El Salvador.
Services Offered: willing to offer assistance/advice to any independent oral historians interested in the basics of project formation and themes relating to Latin America, women, indigenous healers, religious-oriented studies, radical religious organizations and social movements.
NAME: Stephanie Philbrick
PROGRAM: Maine Historical Society
CONTACT INFORMATION
489 Congress Street
Portland, Maine 04101
Stephanie@schroff.com
Projects-in-Progress:
Homefront Veterans Oral History Project: WWII shipyard workers and persons displaced by shipyards in South Portland. Final project will be short documentary radio series which is a collaboration between Portland Harbor Museum and WMPG-FM.
ERA in Maine: this independent project conducts oral histories with women in Maine about Equal Rights Amendment, local chapters of the National Organization for Women (NOW) and organizing in a rural state.
NAME: Barry Ross
Rene Ross, Project Director
PROGRAM: Southern Arizona Transportation Museum
CONTACT INFORMATION
brross@mindspring.com
Projects-in-Progress: oral histories of Southern Arizona railroaders.
Services Offered: willing to train and advise.
Needs: more grant money
NAME: Peter Cole, Ph.D.
PROGRAM: Rural Exodus Project
Department of History, Western Illinois University
CONTACT INFORMATION
Macomb, Illinois 61455
Phone: 309.298.1285
P-Cole@wiu.edu
Projects-in-Progress: project interviewing American workers who lost jobs to NAFTA and other globalization-related causes. Goal is to gauge the human impacts of globalization on rural America. Seeking towns under 100,000 people; companies that have relocated at least 100 jobs from those towns and those displaced persons to be interviewed.
NAME: Charles Price, Assistant Professor
PROGRAM: Department of Anthropology
UNC-Chapel Hill
CONTACT INFORMATION
301 Alumni Building CB 3115
UNC-Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599
Phone: 919.843.7809
Cell: 347.661.8335
Fax: 919.962.1613
Projects-in-Progress: field-based and oral history documentation of organizing work of the Community Farm Alliance in Kentucky. Life stories of older Rastafarians in Jamaica and how and why they embraced the faith and movement.
NAME: Sarah Boyer, Oral History Project Coordinator
PROGRAM: Cambridge Historical Commission
CONTACT INFORMATION
831 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139
Phone: 617.349.6171
sboyer@cambridgema.gov
Projects-in-Progress: World War II and the Home Front in Cambridge.
NAME: Sarah Piasecki, History of Medicine Librarian
PROGRAM: OHSU Historical Collection and Archives
OHSU Library
CONTACT INFORMATION
Oregon Health & Science University
3181 SW Sam Jackson Park Road
` Portland, Oregon 97239-3098
Phone: 503.418.2287
Fax: 503.418.0235
piasecki@ohsu.edu
Projects-in-Progress: Oregon Health & Science University Oral History Project
focuses on the history of the institution and its faculty as well as the history of the health sciences in general.
Services Offered: willing to answer questions via email or phone.
NAME:
PROGRAM: Baylor University Institute for Oral History
CONTACT INFORMATION
P.O. Box 97271
312 Carroll Library
Waco, Texas 76798
Phone: 254.710.3437
Fax: 254.710.1571
Projects-in-Progress:
Arts and Culture: investigation of the role of cultural expression, particularly music and theater in American society.
Baylor University: diverse subjects relating to the history of the university.
Family Life and Community History: studies in social history, with particular emphasis on rural life.
Texas Baptist History: investigations into the denominational life of Texas Baptists.
Texas Economic History: interviews on the economic life of the state.
Waco-McLennan County: various aspects related to local and regional history.
Anne Hutchinson’s Legacy: Women Seminarians Voice their Case:
Anne Hutchinson was excommunicated in 1637 from the First Church of Boston for the “heresy” of teaching the Bible to men and claiming that the Holy Spirit spoke directly to her. This interview project asks women teaching in theological seminaries across the United States in the early years of the 21st century how they came to feel God’s call, who encouraged or discouraged them in their obedience to that call, and about their experiences as seminarians.
Services Offered: See http://www.baylor.edu/Oral%5History/index.php?id=23560
for their Workshop on the Web.
NAME: Jeff Friedman, Ph.D., Founder
PROGRAM: LEGACY Oral History Project
San Francisco Performing Arts Library & Museum
Rutgers University Faculty
CONTACT INFORMATION
529 Alice Place
Woodbridge, NJ 07095
jfdance@rci.rutgers.edu
jfleg@prodigy.net
Phone: 732.634.3553
Cell: 415.205.5239
Projects-in-Progress: Founder and ongoing senior interviewer/editor for life-histories of performing artists program established at major archive in San Francisco (1988-present). Founder, designer and primary instructor of 3-5 day training program (1995-present) covering all aspects of project design, legal/ethical concerns, interviewing and editing skills, post-recording publication issues, cross-cultural concerns. Consultant with numerous federal agencies, museums, universities, non-profit programs and individual projects [selected]
Environmental Protection Agency CA
Bolinas Museum CA
Mothers Living Histories Project CA
Mills College Community Oral History Project CA
Los Angeles Dance Resource Center CA
School of American Ballet NY
Chicago Art Institute/Newberry Library IL
Minneapolis Dance Alliance MN
VOICES of American Performance (national service organization)
Services Offered: available for training workshop design and instruction (4 hours-5 day course); consulting (individual, institutional, academic); commissioned interviewing; and writing and editing for publications. Specialist in converting oral histories into public performances (Brigham Young University UT; Rutgers University NJ; University of Auckland, NZ (pending); LOCUS Solo Dance touring choreography (1990-present).
Rate: $75/hour, for-profit; $50/hour, not-for-profit, not including expenses. Fees for training workshop design and instruction, and choreographic projects vary according to the scope of work.
NAME: Dennis N. Mihelich, Univeristy Historian
PROGRAM: Creighton University Oral History Center
CONTACT INFORMATION
Campion House
Creighton University
Omaha, Nebraska 68178
Phone: 402.280.3383
Fax: 402.280.3502
Projects-in-Progress: interviews with retired faculty and administrators relative to their careers at Creighton University.
Services Offered: has served as an oral history techniques trainer and advisor to programs on numerous occasions over the past 30 years.
NAME: Lisa Krissoff Boehm, Ph.D., Regional Director
PROGRAM: Consortium of Oral History Educators
CONTACT INFORMATION
Associate Professor of Urban Studies
Director, Commonwealth Honors Program
Worcester State College
486 Chandler Street
Worcester, Massachusetts 01602
Phone: 508.929.8669
lboehm@worcester.edu
NAME: Brenda Edgerton-Webster, A.B.D. , Independent Historian
PROGRAM: Department of Communication
CONTACT INFORMATION
Mississippi State University
MS 39758
OHA COMMITTEE ON DIVERSITY REPORTS
FEBRUARY 18, 2005
The Committee on Diversity met at the annual meeting in Portland, Oregon (October 1, 2004). The composition of the 2004-05 committee is as follows:
- Alva Moore Stevenson, UCLA (Chair)
* Al Broussard (Texas A&M, College Station)
* Gloria Cuádraz, ASU West
* Warren Nishimoto, University of Hawaii, Manoa.
The 2005-06 Committee is as follows:
- Alva Moore Stevenson, UCLA (Chair)
* Norma Smith (Community Scholar – Oakland, CA)
* Karen Weaver (Columbia University)
* Claytee White (University of Nevada, Las Vegas)
The CD goals and action on them (italicized) are:
- Work with Program and Nominating Committees to further strengthen gains made in area of annual meeting programs and leadership.
Requested assistance of Committee members to put together sessions for 2005 meeting. Horacio Roque Ramirez submitted proposal for panel on Central Americans in the U.S. and possibly another one on oral history in chicana/o and latino/a communities.
Working with Alphine Jefferson and Gloria Cuádraz on Nominating: CD input solicited on list of names to run for Nominating Committee. Chair also working with Alphine on theme of 2006 meeting in Little Rock and Saturday night keynote speaker. Also have passed along to Council recommendation of Oakland, California as a future meeting site.
- Utilize OHA Website/Membership List/H-ORALHIST to stimulate broader CD Committee participation and heighten visibility.
WarrenNishimoto and Chair will work oin minor revisions to the existing OHA website that will heighten CD visibility. More substantive revisions and related projects (CD sub-site and online directory) must await appointment of Webmaster.
- Outreach to State/Regional leadership to share information and resources.
Chair will contact State/Regional organizations to determine how to collaborate on mutual goals and needs. Emails to all OHA State and Regional Affiliates listed in the OHA Membership Directory sent on February 17 to start the dialogue.
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- Email is being utilized by the Chair on a regular basis to communicate with the membership, provide information on CD business; reminders on deadlines and solicit input and feedback.
- Chair has solicited input and volunteers for a CD brochure and formation of an CD Outreach Resource Team
OCTOBER 14, 2005
The Committee on Diversity appointments are as follows:
2004-05: Alva Moore Stevenson, UCLA (Chair)
Al Broussard (Texas A&M, College Station)
Gloria Cuádraz (ASU West)
Warren Nishimoto (University of Hawaii, Manoa)
2005-06: Alva Moore Stevenson (UCLA, continuing as Chair)
Nyoni Collins (Sankofa Center, Wake Forest, North Carolina)
Norma Smith (Community Scholar – Oakland, CA)
Karen Weaver (Columbia University)
Claytee White (University of Nevada, Las Vegas)
- The Chair has agreed to extend her term for 2005-06. Members of that year’s Committee have been contacted to continue theirs as well. More than one term was needed to accomplish some of the CD’s goals.
- Effective March, 2005 CD Chair became a regular member of the Scholarship Committee. This further integrates the CD into the organization’s structure and input on selection of the scholarship awardees.
- Email was used frequently by the Chair to notify members of newsletter submission deadlines; transmit CD reports; ask for assistance on special projects or soliciting suggestions for annual meeting sessions.
- Chair solicited input and volunteers for a CD brochure and formation of a CD Outreach Resource Team. No one has responded so these will be revisited at the Providence meeting.
- Chair put together an informal CD contact list with the names of all who attended the Portland meeting and other OHA members who have participated or expressed an interest.
- Chair was consulted by Alphine Jefferson on the nomination slates. Both agreed that there should be a centralized mechanism (database?) for knowing the composition of all Committees. Information such as who is on the committee; have they served previously and the length of their terms of service would be valuable.
- Chair will assist Alphine Jefferson with fund-raising and other projects related to the Little Rock meeting.
Progress Report on CD Goals
GOAL: Work with Program and Nominating Committees to further
strengthen gains made in area of annual meeting programs and leadership.
ACTION:
- The CD-sponsored session at the Providence meeting will be Central Americans in the U.S.: (Im)Migrants, Refugees and Fighters in Historical Transit coordinated by Horacio Roque Ramirez (UCSB)
- Tracy K’Meyer has requested the CD’s assistance in soliciting proposals for the Little Rock meeting in ’06. Among the suggestions from members of the Committee are as follows: panel on Katrina giving voice to those relocated and explore how it provided us with the possibility to transcend historical, cultural and socio-economic barriers; voices of the homeless (continuation of panel at Portland meeting); voices of former KKK members as part of a larger panel; Japanese American relocation in Arkansas (Jerome and Rohwer internment centers), and workshop on conducting oral histories in African American communities. Chair and Committee will follow up so that proposals are submitted by the deadline.
GOAL: Utilize OHA Website/Membership List/H-ORALHIST to stimulate
broader CD participation and heighten visibility.
ACTION:
- In abeyance until Webmaster is appointed.
GOAL: Outreach to State/Regional leadership to share information and
Resources.
- Chair emailed contacts for all State/Regional leadership. The particular query was how OHA can collaborate with state/regional organizations to increase participation by diverse individuals and communities. The responses are as follows:
NOHA (Laura McCreery): to be brought up at their next business meeting and the membership also to be consulted. They were also interested in ideas OHA has. Awaiting responses.
OHMAR (Roger Horowitz): the vehicles for people to present their work must be expanded if organizations and its meetings are to be more diverse by race and class. “Community Showcase”
was instituted by OHMAR to allow community-based groups to have tables, literature and recurring video/slide/PowerPoint presentations. OHMAR had coffee breaks in the room to ensure that conference participants came through.
Southern Oral History Organization (Audrey Galex):
Members were queried via email. Audrey was also bring up at their next Oral History Roundtable. Awaiting response.
Southwest Oral History Association (Karen Harper): utilize presentations; gift memberships and scholarships to increase diversity of bothorganizations.
Respectfully Submitted,
Alva Moore Stevenson, Chair
October 14, 2005
