2011 Nonprint Award: At Home in Utopia
Nonprint Award: At Home in Utopia (film), Michal Goldman and Ellen Brodsky, Co-producers
2011 Emerging Crises Research Fund Grant: Sawt
Emerging Crises Research Fund grant: Sawt, women’s participation in the January Revolution in Egypt.
2011 Stetson Kennedy Vox Populi Award: The Nakba Archive
The Nakba Archive has recorded over 650 interviews about the expulsion of Palestinians from their homes and lands in 1948.
2011 Martha Ross Teaching Award: Rosie Uyola, Edison High School Story Corps
Martha Ross Teaching Award: Rosie Uyola, Edison High School Story Corps
2011 Honorable Mention (Non Print): Voices of Buffalo Trace Distillery
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.
2011 Book Award: Living with Jim Crow
Living with Jim Crow: African American Women and Memories of the Segregated South by Anne Valk and Leslie Brown.
New OHA Development Committee – Call for Volunteer Members
OHA is establishing a new Development Committee charged with designing entrepreneurial plans for OHA’s financial growth and actively fundraising for the Association, both externally and internally. The Committee will meet for the first time in Denver, on Thursday, October 13, 12-1:15pm in Ballroom A. If you are interested please contact the OHA President, Rina Benmayor, or come to the meeting.
IN MEMORIAM: STETSON KENNEDY 1916-2011
Stetson Kennedy died at 9:25 a.m., August 27, 2011. He was 94. A friend to labor, folkore and to the oral history movement, Stetson will truly be missed. His memory lives on in the Stetson Kennedy Vox Populi Annual Award dedicated to promoting social justice work among oral historians. More…
OHA Announces New Journal Editors
Exciting Changes for the Oral History Review!
On January 1, 2012, the editorship of the Oral History Review will change hands, and—in a departure for the OHA—an editorial team is coming on board. Kathy Nasstrom, of the University of San Francisco, will become the editor and Troy Reeves, of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, will step into a new position of managing editor. Kathy will be responsible for the overall management and development of the journal, and Troy will handle its production. Kathy and Troy have identified their top priorities as: 1– strengthening the OHR as the journal of record for the field of oral history in the U.S.; 2– developing a more thoroughly international, interdisciplinary, and multimedia journal; 3– crafting a journal that meets the needs of the Association’s diverse constituencies. John Wolford will continue as book review editor; Jennifer Abraham Cramer as media review editor; and—in another departure—a new position is being created to develop the multimedia capacity of the OHR. Doug Boyd, Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History at the University of Kentucky Libraries, will assume this position. Stay tuned for more on all of these developments!
