Angeline Butler
Angeline Butler By Brandon Perdomo, 2021 Angeline Butler – Civil Rights activist, playwright, musician – recalls growing up in farmland of South Carolina and the influence her environment had on […]
Short Audio and Video Pieces
“My Ideal Place”: Towards a Speculative Archive for Community Care
“My Ideal Place”: Towards a Speculative Archive for Community Care By Taylor Thompson, 2021 Community care practitioner and founder of NourishNYC, Tania Maree Giordani, describes an ideal place she intends […]
What I Saw In My Early Years
What I Saw In My Early Years By Nina Zhou, 2021 This interview is set against the backdrop of the Chinese Exclusion Era in Toronto, Canada. Many Chinese families were […]
Why Were They Interested In Our Ages?
Why Were They Interested In Our Ages? By Aluel Bol Kuanyin, 2021 In this audio piece, Aluel’s father, Bol Kuanyin Agoth, is sharing memories of home, his relationship with his […]
Footsteps Through Childhood
Footsteps Through Childhood By Susan Garrity, 2021 During a two-and-a-half-hour walking interview of a 300-acre site under development as an urban park, the narrator, Demetrius Hunter, muses about his many […]
Teachers All Around Us: Intergenerational Conversations & Student Oral Histories
Teachers All Around Us: Intergenerational Conversations & Student Oral Histories By Max Peterson, 2021 Cosby Hunt, a high school social studies teacher in Washington, DC, reflects on his initial experiences […]
Losing My Religion
Losing My Religion By Elizabeth Jefimova, 2021 Kris Goldsmith is a veteran on the Iraq war. During the course of our three meetings, Kris talked about his time in Iraq […]
There’s No Place Like Home
There’s No Place Like Home By Casey Dooley, 2021 Inspired by an interest in architecture and memory, this edited interview excerpt revolves around a house in Rahway, a New Jersey […]
Ain’t Got Long to Stay Here
Ain’t Got Long to Stay Here By Courtney Scott, 2020 OHMA student Courtney Scott reflects with her father, Barry Scott, on 30 years of portraying Dr Martin Luther King Jr. […]
The Crossing (2020)
THE CROSSING By Lily Doron, 2020 Refugees traveling to Europe from Turkey typically depart from Izmir and arrive on the island of Lesvos across the Aegean Sea. For many, this […]
Se c’era quella persona che ti incuriosiva: an 80s lesbian bar in Southern Italy (2020)
Se c’era quella persona che ti incuriosiva: an 80s lesbian bar in Southern Italy By Eleonora Anedda, 2020 In this piece, OHMA student Eleonora Anedda (2019-2020 cohort) brings us back […]
Cruising (2020)
CRUISING By Lauren Instenes, 2020 Take a drive with Floyd Hook Jr. (JR) and current OHMA student Lauren Instenes as they explore queer places in Springfield, Ohio. JR opened Springfield’s […]
Second Death (a film by Nairy AbdElShafy)
Second Death by Nairy AbdElShafy The video was created as a final project for the Fall 2018 class: Toward a Multimedia Practice: Oral History and Storytelling Workshop. It is based […]
“ A Stranger in a Strange Land”(2019)
“A Stranger in a Strange Land” By Nairy AbdElShafy, 2019 This audio piece is created from edited excerpts of two oral history interviews conducted by Nairy AbdElShafy, featuring Augusto Puig; […]
“So, A War Happened”(2019)
“So, A War Happened” By Rebecca Kiil, 2019 In this piece, my maternal grandmother, Aino Tuul Kaevats, at 101 years of age, talks about events that occurred in her homeland […]
A Lifetime Ago (2019)
A Lifetime Ago By Christina Barba, 2019 In this audio vignette, my mother, Susan Vartanian Barba, shares stories from her early childhood in Tehran, Iran. She spent the first five […]
The Announcement (2019)
The Announcement By Anne Cardenas, 2019 Narrators Rico Gardaphe, Carolyn Hull and Jay Plant share their recollections of then-Senator Barack Obama’s Presidential Campaign Announcement in Springfield, Illinois on February 10, […]
“I Felt My Color For The First Time” (2019)
“I Felt My Color For The First Time” By Christine Jeanjaquet (narrator) + Storm Garner (interviewer, editor), 2019 Christine Jeanjaquet, an Industrial Design professor from Manila, left the Philippines for NYC in […]
Ailleurs/Elsewhere (2019)
Ailleurs/Elsewhere By Caroline Cunfer, 2019 Raised in Philadelphia, Lindsey Tramuta is an author and journalist who has been living in Paris since 2006. This audio piece was edited from a […]
SHINDIGS & SINGSONGS (2019)
SHINDIGS & SINGSONGS By Rebecca McGilveray, 2019 Shindig n. Term derived from Scottish Gaelic sìnteag (“jump, leap”) meaning an elaborate or large dance, party, or other celebration. In this edited audio […]
by Samantha Lombard (2018)
By Samantha Lombard, 2018 Listen to this edited audio piece through OHMA’s SoundCloud channel In this piece, OHMA student Samantha Lombard’s Grandmother, Barbara Stone, recalls her memories of the rationing […]
“Lots of Tall Grasses and Big Red Ants” (2018)
“Lots of Tall Grasses and Red Ants” By Tomoko Kubota, 2018 Listen to this edited audio piece through OHMA’s SoundCloud channel During the Pacific war, the American and the Japanese […]
The Record of Sorrows, a Living Memory of Death (2018)
The Record of Sorrows, a Living Memory of Death By Rozanne Gooding Silverwood, 2018 Listen to this edited audio piece through OHMA’s SoundCloud channel My mother was a genealogist, […]
Prologue (2018)
Prologue By Carlin Zia, 2018 Listen to this edited audio piece through OHMA’s SoundCloud channel Current OHMA student Carlin Zia shares an experimental iteration of her self-reflexive thesis work on […]
Picture the Homeless (2018)
Picture the Homeless By Lynn Lewis, 2018 Listen to this edited audio piece through OHMA’s SoundCloud channel The Picture the Homeless Oral History Project documents the groundbreaking work of this […]
by elly kalfus (2018)
By Elly Kalfus, 2018 Listen to this edited audio piece through OHMA’s SoundCloud channel elly asked her mother to share the story of her birth. this is the result. elly […]
“that death isn’t the end” (2018)
“that death isn’t the end” By Yiyi Zhang, 2018 Listen to this edited audio piece through OHMA’s SoundCloud channel This episode is from an interview that Yiyi Zhang conducted with […]
Arlington, VA (a film by Carlin Zia)
Current OHMA student Carlin Zia shares an early foray into film in this 7-minute interview-based portrait of her father, produced in our fall elective Documentary & Visual Storytelling. [filmmaker] I […]
No Goodbye (2016)
No Goodbye By Xiaoyan Li, 2016 Listen to this edited audio piece through OHMA’s SoundCloud channel This episode is from an interview that Xiaoyan Li conducted with Alexandra Patz, an […]
An Excerpt from Finding Fathers: An Oral History of Uncertainty
An Excerpt from Finding Fathers: An Oral History of Uncertainty By Emma Courtland, 2016 Listen to this edited audio piece through OHMA’s SoundCloud channel Alessandra R is a 31 year old […]
A Radio on One’s Own: The History of ‘Radio Donna’ (2016)
A Radio on One’s Own: The History of ‘Radio Donna’ By Paola Stelliferi, Visiting Scholar, 2016 Listen to this edited audio piece through OHMA’s SoundCloud channel I imagined this clip […]
Secrets of Giving (2016)
Secrets of Giving By Shira Hudson, 2016 Listen to this edited audio piece through OHMA’s SoundCloud channel This is a mock podcast clip featuring Rabbi Avi Killip, who gives us a […]
Claudia’s Coming Out Story and Finding Love (2016)
Claudia’s Coming Out Story and Finding Love By Steve Fuchs, 2016 Listen to this edited audio piece through OHMA’s SoundCloud channel In this audio, Claudia Caine a retired hospital administrator […]
Between Detroit and Liverpool (2015)
Between Detroit and Liverpool By Bud Kliment, 2015 Listen to this edited audio piece through OHMA’s SoundCloud channel Originally from Detroit and Barnard College, Felice Rosser is a writer and […]
Home (2015)
Home By Meghan Valdes, 2015 Listen to this edited audio piece through OHMA’s SoundCloud channel Arnaldo L. was born in the city of Santa Clara, Cuba, and immigrated to the […]
Existential Cathexis: Patriotism (2015)
Existential Cathexis: Patriotism By Geraldo Jay Scala, 2015 Listen to this edited audio piece through OHMA’s SoundCloud channel The following audio piece features Ed Shevlin, a robust, straight talking, tattooed […]
The Reality of Love (2015)
The Reality of Love By Sara Jacobs, 2015 Listen to this edited audio piece through OHMA’s SoundCloud channel Cherise N. Washington is a 25-year-old currently living in New York City. […]
Memory of a Boy Soldier (2015)
Memory of a Boy Soldier By Christina Pae, 2015 Listen to this edited audio piece through OHMA’s SoundCloud channel In this clip, my uncle, Kon Ho Cho, tells me about […]