Narrator-led. Emotional range. Shared authority. Prominent silence. Unscripted language. Tangents welcome. These are some of the characteristics of oral histories, and also some of the qualities producer/editor Sarah Geis believes make podcasts that buzz with life. Read more here…

This third hop-on session in our series of short-form online workshops will focus on field-work: how to get into the field of oral history and how to sustain a life of “fieldwork.” Come hear from Oral History Summer School Founder/Director Suzanne Snider along with colleagues Meral Agish, Sady Sullivan and others about ways to train, network, budget, earn income and sustain your oral history practice and values.

How/where does a newly trained oral historian find work? What kinds of jobs exist within the larger project of oral history? How much should/can you charge as an interviewer-for-hire? Read More….

From the oral historian that piloted the Talking White: Transcribing Black Voices workshop, comes a new workshop geared towards making unique transcription style guides that cater to your own project's needs. As always, the goal with oral history transcription is producing a useful document that honors our narrators and the intricacies of their speech. In this all-day virtual yet hands-on workshop, you'll receive a first hand step-by-step look at how the Margaret Walker Center Oral History Transcription Style Guide was created to do just this. Read more…