Our collective bibliography
For this collective bibliography, members were asked to share the publications or projects they are most proud of. This growing document serves as an indispensable resource for anyone interested in oral history.
This bibliography brings together leading scholars and practitioners in oral history who are among the most recognizable names in the field, as well as emerging scholars whose work is already shaping our thinking about the formative ways our practice must change.
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boudreau, lacey, Angela Brunet, Jay Sallos-Carter, Samm Reid, and Anna Sheftel. “Listening Beyond: Collaborative Reflections on Learning about Activism through an Undergraduate Oral History and Podcasting Project.” The Oral History Review 51, no. 2 (2024): 399–425. https://doi.org/10.1080/00940798.2024.2381609.
Bradley, Kevin, and Anisa Puri. “Creating an Oral History Archive: Digital Opportunities and Ethical Issues.” Australian Historical Studies 47, no. 1 (2016): 75–91. https://doi.org/10.1080/1031461X.2015.1122072.
Brown, Elspeth H. “Archival Activism, Symbolic Annihilation, and the LGBTQ2+ Community Archive.” Archivaria 89, no. 1 (2020): 6–32.
Brown, Elspeth H., and Myrl Beam. “Toward an Ethos of Trans Care in Trans Oral History.” The Oral History Review 49, no. 1 (2022): 29–55. https://doi.org/10.1080/00940798.2022.2038518.
Currie-Williams, Kelann. “Afterimages and the Synaesthesia of Photography.” Philosophy of Photography 12, nos. 1–2 (2023): 111–27. https://doi.org/10.1386/pop_00050_1.
Currie-Williams, Kelann. “Life After Demolition: The Absented Presence of Montreal’s Negro Community Centre.” Urban History Review 48, no. 2 (2021): 56–75.
Currie-Williams, Kelann. “Makers and Keepers: Two Lives Through Photographs.” Canadian Journal of History 56, no. 3 (2021): 292–319.
Farrell, Shanna. A Good Drink: In Pursuit of Sustainable Spirits. Island Press, 2021.
Fee, Elizabeth, Linda Shopes, and Linda Zeidman, eds. The Baltimore Book: New Views of Local History. Temple University Press, 1991.
Foulis, Elena. “Historias de Una Pandemia: Documenting Latina/Os/x Stories During Covid-19 Through Performed Storytelling.” Journal of Folklore and Education 9 (2022): 128–37.
Foulis, Elena. “Y En El 57 Me Casé Con Él, y Fue Por Él Que Me Quedé Aquí En Ohio: Narrative Voice in Latina/o/e Oral Histories.” Ohio State University Press. Bilingual Review/Revista Bilingüe XXXVII, no. 1 (2025): 29–45.
Foulis, Elena, and Stacey Alex. “On Loss, Gain, Acceptance and Belonging: Spanish in the Midwest.” Spanish as a Heritage Langauge Journal 1, no. 1 (2021): 39–65. https://doi.org/10.5744/shl.2021.1002.
Frazier, Nishani. Harambee City: The Congress of Racial Equality in Cleveland and the Rise of Black Power Populism. University of Arkansas Press, 2017.
Frazier, Nishani, Cooking With Black Nationalism, forthcoming.
Frost, Naomi, and Anna Sheftel. “‘The People Who Stayed’: Montreal’s Back River Memorial Gardens as a Site of Immigrant and Urban Meaning-Making.” Urban History Review 52, no. 2 (2024): 339–61.
Funderburk, Alissa Rae. “Spirituality and Struggle: Religious and Spiritual Experiences of Black Men as It Relates to the Decline in Political Power for the Black Church.” Master’s, Columbia University, 2019. https://www.alissaraefunderburk.com/spectrum-spirituality.
Funderburk, Alissa Rae. “Talking White’ An Anti-Oppression View Towards Transcribing and Archiving Black Narrators.” In Building Representative Community Archives: Inclusive Strategies in Practice. ALA Neal-Schuman, 2024.
Funderburk, Alissa Rae. “The Role of Narrator Compensation in the Case for Reparations And Restitution.” IOHA Words and Silences Forthcoming (n.d.).
Maddison, Sarah, Julia Hurst, and Archie Thomas. “The Truth Will Set You Free? The Promises and Pitfalls of Truth‐Telling for Indigenous Emancipation.” Social Inclusion 11, no. 2 (2023): 212–22. https://doi.org/10.17645/si.v11i2.6491.
Mahuika, Nēpia. Rethinking Oral History and Tradition: An Indigenous Perspective. Oxford University Press, 2019.
Marsillo, Cassandra. “Scaccia Mal’occhio: The Petits Récits of Five Local Mal’occhio Healers.” In Offstream: Minority and Popular Culture in the Italian Contex. Franco Cesati Editore, 2019.
Marsillo, Cassandra, and Vee Di Gregorio. Dalla Valigia Alla Tavola: A Journey through Molisan Culinary Heritage. Federazione delle associazioni molisane del Québec, 2023.
Merryman, Molly, and Moira Armstrong. “Queer Collective Memory During the Time of COVID: Timelessness, Isolation, and Resilience in the United Kingdom.” Memory Studies 16, no. 1 (2023): 100–112. https://doi.org/10.1177/17506980221142986.
Millington, Virginia. “Australian Lives: An Intimate History: By Anisa Puri and Alistair Thompson. Monash University Publishing, 2017, (Ebook).” The Oral History Review 47, no. 1 (2020): 116–17. https://doi.org/10.1080/00940798.2020.1726675.
Murphy, Amy Tooth. “Listening in, Listening out: Intersubjectivity and the Impact of Insider and Outsider Status in Oral History Interviews.” Oral History 48, no. 1 (2020): 35–44.
Murphy, Amy Tooth. “The Butch on the Ferry: The Affect and Effect of Butch Longing.” In Queering Desire: Lesbians, Gender and Subjectivity. Routledge, 2024.
Nasstrom, Kathryn. Everybody’s Grandmother and Nobody’s Fool: Frances Freeborn Pauley and the Struggle for Social Justice. Cornell University Press, 2000.
Neyzi, Leyla. “National Education Meets Critical Pedagogy: Teaching Oral History in Turkey.” The Oral History Review 46, no. 2 (2019): 380–400. https://doi.org/10.1093/ohr/ohz010.
Neyzi, Leyla. Speaking to One Another: Personal Memories of the Past in Armenia and Turkey. DVV International, 2010.
Norkunas, Martha K. “Oral History.” In Handbook of Research Methods and Methodologies for the Social Sciences. Routledge, 2025.
Norkunas, Martha K. The Politics of Public Memory: Tourism, History, and Ethnicity in Monterey, California. State University of New York Press, 1993.
Norkunas, Martha K. “The Vulnerable Listener.” In Oral History Off the Record: Toward an Ethnography of Practice. Palgrave Studies in Oral History Series. Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137339652_5.
Opp, James, and John Walsh, eds. Placing Memory and Remembering Place in Canada. University of British Colombia Press, 2010.
Pascoe Leahy, Carla. Becoming a Mother: An Australian History. Machester University Press, 2023.
Pombier, Nicki. “Oral History Beyond Speech and Narrative: What Intellectual and Developmental Disability Can Teach Us.” The Oral History Review 52, no. 1 (2025): 159–86. https://doi.org/10.1080/00940798.2025.2468520.
Ponthieux, Kay. “ExisTransInter : Faire L´histoire Des Personnes Trans à Travers Leur Activisme, 1997-2023.” Master’s, Concordia University, 2024. https://spectrum.library.concordia.ca/id/eprint/994384/.
Poole, Thomas. “New Directions in Queer Oral History: Archives of Disruption: Edited by Clare Summerskill, Amy Tooth Murphy and Emma Vickers, Oxon, Routledge, 2022, , ISBN 978-1-003-09203-2.” Archives and Records 43, no. 4 (2022): 345–47. https://doi.org/10.1080/23257962.2022.2128096.
Puri, Anisa. “To Be Who I Was, Really, Was to Be Different”: Memories of Youth Migration to Postwar Australia.” In Remembering Migration: Oral Histories and Heritage in Australia. Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
Starecheski, Amy. “South Bronx Soundwalks as Embodied Archiving Practice.” Oral History 48, no. 2 (2020): 102–12.
Sheftel, Anna, and Stacey Zembrzycki, eds. Oral History Off the Record: Toward an Ethnography of Practice. Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
Sheftel, Anna, and Stacey Zembrzycki. “Slowing Down to Listen in the Digital Age: How New Technology Is Changing Oral History Practice.” The Oral History Review 44, no. 1 (2017): 94–112. https://doi.org/10.1093/ohr/ohx016.
Sheftel, Anna, and Stacey Zembrzycki. “Who’s Afraid of Oral History? Fifty Years of Debates and Anxiety About Ethics.” The Oral History Review 43, no. 2 (2016): 338–66. https://doi.org/10.1093/ohr/ohw071.
Spang-Willis, Francine D. “Coming-To-Know: Overcoming a Limisted Understanding of Native American Knowledge.” Master’s, Columbia University, 2013.
Srigley, Katrina, and John Sawyer. “Visiting as Relational Methodology: Listening, Learning, and Sharing Nishnaabeg Histories in the Age of Artificial Intelligence.” The Oral History Review, forthcoming.
Srigley, Katrina, Stacey Zembrzycki, and Franca Iacovetta, eds. Beyond Women’s Words: Feminisms and the Practices of Oral History in the Twenty-First Century. Routledge, 2018.
Starecheski, Amy. “The Transformation of One of New York City’s Most Famous Squats.” Sapiens, January 24, 2017. https://www.sapiens.org/culture/new-york-city-squatting/.
Strong, Liz H. “Intersubjectivities of Interviewing and Pregnancy.” OHR Blog, November 1, 2019. https://oralhistoryreview.org/technology/interviewing-pregnancy/.
Strong, Liz H. “Shifting Focus: Interviewers Share Advice on Protecting Themselves from Harm.” The Oral History Review 48, no. 2 (2021): 196–215. https://doi.org/10.1080/00940798.2021.1947144.
Thomson, Alistair. Anzac Memories: Living with the Legend. Monash University Publishing, 2013.
Vural, Leyla. “Potter’s Field as Heterotopia: Death and Mourning at New York City’s Edge.” Oral History 47, no. 2 (2019): 106–16.
Vural, Leyla. “Rest in Peace? The Moral Topography of New York City’s Potter’s Field.” You Are Here: The Journal of Creative Geography, no. 24 (2023): 50–57.
Wong, Alan. “‘Between Rage and Love’: Lived Disidentifications Among Racialized, Ethnicized, and Colonized Allosexual Activists in Montreal.” Ph.D., Concordia University, 2013.
Wong, Alan. “Conversations for the Real World: Shared Authority, Self-Reflexivity, and Process in the Oral History Interview.” Journal of Canadian Studies/Revue d’études Canadiennes 43 (2009): 239–58.
Zembrzycki, Stacey. According to Baba: A Collaborative Oral History of Sudbury’s Ukrainian Community. University of British Colombia Press, 2014.
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Maryland Lynching Memorial Project, https://www.mdlynchingmemorial.org/
From Glory Boxes to Grindr: Dating in Australia 1945-2015, https://gloryboxtogrindr.com/
"File/Life: We Remember Stories of Pennhurst," https://disabilities.temple.edu/programs-services/media-arts-culture/file-life-stories
Montreal Life Stories Project, https://storytelling.concordia.ca/archives/collections/
“The Yellow Line Project: Italo-Canadian Oral Histories from Montreal’s Backyards and Schoolyards,” https://www.artistorian.com/yellow-line
'Graduate Oral History Intensive' course with Oral History Australia, co-taught by Alistair Thomson, Sarah Rood and Carla Pascoe Leahy.
'"Serious Play: Oral History and the Art of Story," course in the Oral History Master of Arts program at Columbia University, co-designed and co-taught by Nicki Pombier and Liza Zapol.
Harambee City, https://harambeecity.rrchnm.org/
“Between Imaginaries & Encounters: Young People from Diyarbakır and Muğla Speak,” https://www.gencleranlatiyor.org/en/
Qamutiik: From the North to Ottawa's Southway Inn directed by Mosha Folger, http://loststories.ca/ottawa/index.html
Garnet's Journey: From Residential Schools to Reconciliation, https://garnetsjourney.com
Baytan: Lebanese in Ottawa Oral History Project, https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61574480664453
“Is Oral History White? Investigating Race in Three Baltimore Oral History Collections,” Oral History Association Conference session
Assessing the Role of Race and Power in Oral History Theory and Practice Symposium, Oral History Association (2022), https://oralhistory.org/race-and-power-symposium/
Pussy Palace Oral History Project, https://pussypalaceproject.org/
The Pedagogy of Listening Lab at Columbia University, https://incite.columbia.edu/projects/pedagogy-of-listening-lab
Mott Haven History Keepers, https://motthavenhistory.org/home/history-keepers/
The Obama Presidency Oral History, https://obamaoralhistory.columbia.edu/
Refugee Boulevard: Making Montreal Home after the Holocaust, https://www.refugeeboulevard.ca/
Discover Library and Archives “Porter Talk” Podcast, https://library-archives.canada.ca/eng/collection/engage-learn/podcast/Pages/podcasts.aspx