With an interest in the intersections of migration, race, and ethnicity, she focuses primarily on migrant experiences in comparative frameworks. MIRIAM NYHAN GREY is Associate Director of New York University's Center for Irish and Irish-American Studies, where she is also Director of Graduate Studies for the Master of Arts in Irish and Irish-American Studies. The goal is to uncover the richness of oral history in complicating our explanations of the past. Preparing for and conducting an oral history interview will be a significant portion of the work for this course. This course will explore theories of memory, how memory is constructed and forgotten, and how historians contend with this type of source. In the process of interviewing, the historian is confronted by sources that speak, think, remember, forget and recount-human beings. As a method it presents both challenges and rewards, as the sources are not confined to the library or an archive. It is compelling in its ability to bring forward the voices of those who were frequently excluded from more typical sources and it often leads to new interpretations of history. Oral history is a very important tool for a historian.
Required cohort meeting: Monday, 2:00-3:15 p.m. Adventures in Interviewing: Oral History Theory and Practice
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