When: Feb 10 – March 23, 2025 (6 weeks)
Where: Online & Asynchronous (see more info)
Cost: $275 (Register 2 weeks early for 10% off)
CE Credit: 2 CEUs/ 20 LEUs
Program#: 315225
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In this course, you will discover the basics of how to create oral history initiatives by exploring best practices, practicalities, and tools. You will learn how to record, preserve, and interpret oral history as a method to diversify collections. Other topics include exploring funding resources for oral history projects, as well as using digital humanities tools to enhance collections and increase accessibility.
Each week features reading selections and assignments.
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
- Understand oral history as a tool for diversifying archival collections.
- Know how to develop an oral history initiative.
- Know how to record, interpret, and preserve oral history collections.
- Use digital humanities tools to increase discoverability and present oral histories.
- Know how to create a backpack kit.
- Explore funding options for an oral history project.
Audience:
This course is perfect for people already in the field, those who want to pivot or explore oral history, and also new professionals. It covers essential basics for new people and offers an refresher for those with some oral history experience.
Instructor
Kristina Mullenix is a local historian working on a PhD in history. She holds a BA in History, an MLIS with specialty in Archives Management, and a Certificate in the Basics of Archives. Her research focus is recovering historical silences. She has experience with digital humanities projects and is currently collaborating on an oral history project as a 2023 Cauthen Fellow with the Alabama Folklife Association. In 2023, she also was awarded a Friends of Alabama Archives research grant.
As a native of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, Kristina grew up traipsing through old cemeteries on the hunt for ancestors with her family. This shaped her love of genealogy and history. Kristina is most interested in community participatory historical research and preservation, as well as oral history and all things archives-museums-history-genealogy. In her spare time, she facilitates a historical fiction book club.