Resources for Remote Interviewing

Please email coph@fullerton.edu if you have suggestions for additional resources.

Baylor University Institute for Oral History and OHA

Oral History at a Distance: Conducting Remote Interviews

• Webinar recorded on March 31, 2020 addessing the dynamics of conducting remote oral history interviews.
  Slides from the webinar, a summary, and a digest of additional resources mentioned in the webinar chat and Q&A, are also available on the OHA website.

Oral History Technology (see section on Long Distance Recording

Columbia Center for Oral History Research (CCOHR)

Oral History of Disasters and Pandemics

• Webinar recorded on April 16, 2020 with CCOHR Director, Mary Marshall Clark. Webinar addresses how to plan and conduct oral histories in communities affected by disasters. CCOHR has also provided a list of Resources for Covid-19 Interviewing with links to readings, projects, and additional information. 

Oral History Association

Remote Interviewing Resources

Resources developed by the Oral History Association’s Remote Interviewing Resources Task Force in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and the requirement to cease face-to-face interviewing for the health of both narrator and interviewer. This guide is meant to be a resource to practitioners as they work through the numerous questions that arise with this method.

Oral History Society

Advice on Remote Interviewing During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Vermont Folklife Center

Recording Interviews Remotely

Articles

"Immunodeficiency and Oral History" by Sarah Dziedzic

Thinkpiece by an Oral Historian practicing in New York City