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Oral History Talk: Natalie Milbort (11/16/2023)

Oral History in Interdisciplinary Community College Pedagogy: Centering the Community in the Classroom (https://oralhistory.commons.gc.cuny.edu) is funded by the National Endowment of Humanities (NEH) for 2023-2025 to introduce oral history techniques to community college faculty’s pedagogical practices. The project is pleased to announce its first invited talk by Natalie Milbrodt, Queens Memory Project & Queens Library, … Continue reading

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CUNY’s IRG Grant (up to $45k; deadline on 11/20/2023)

As a reminder, the CUNY Interdisciplinary Research Grant (IRG) Application Deadline is November 20, 2023 (9:00 am EST). This will be a great opportunity to scale up your oral history project with funding.

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Looking for a part-time research assistant for the NEH Oral History project ($25/hour; deadline on 9/29/2023)

“Oral History in Interdisciplinary Community College Pedagogy: Centering the Community in the Classroom” is an NEH-funded project led by multidisciplinary researchers at LaGuardia Community College. We are currently looking for a part-time research assistant (RA) who will support the project team to administer the project. The project will begin in September 2023 until June 2025. … Continue reading

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Call for Participants for the 2023-2024 seminar

We would like to invite faculty to participate in the NEH Seminar: Oral History in Interdisciplinary Community College Pedagogy that will be run through CTL. The seminar will have faculty explore how oral history practices can help recenter their teaching practices to the vantage points of individuals and communities of minority groups whose perspectives are … Continue reading

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Making it here Women in New York City Politics Project

Molly Rosner, one of the co-project director of the Oral History in Interdisciplinary Community College Pedagogy, is leading another project honoring the first-ever female majority in the history of New York City Council. The project has been collaborating with faculty for other oral history projects and LaGuardia students are researching and interviewing local leaders about … Continue reading

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Centering the Community in the Classroom through NEH Grant ($150,000 for 2023-2025)

The National Endowment for the Humanities has awarded a $150,000 grant for “Oral History in Interdisciplinary Community College Pedagogy: Centering the Community in the Classroom.” Led by Thomas Cleary (Library; PI), Molly Rosner (LaGuardia and Wagner Archives), and Tomonori Nagano (Education & Language Acquisition), aims to empower faculty to bring oral history interviews into their … Continue reading

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