Undergraduates—have you heard? There’s a new oral history club at UF! The Student’s Oral History Club bring students of all backgrounds together through the education of oral history. Consider joining to explore the process of oral history, examine different oral history projects, and assist in potential project creation.
SPOHP’s collaboration with the UF’s Gulf Scholars Program brings students to Pensacola, Florida to document stories of community organizing and resilience in response to the toxic legacies of Escambia County’s many superfund sites. Read more about the Pensacola Environmental Oral History Project and the inaugural student cohort.
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This grant from the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) will deepen work started on an NEH grant, Reanimating African American Oral Histories of the Gulf South. We will focus on the oral histories of students within Putnam County, Florida who attended the first Black schools in Florida before integration.
Read more "Linguistics and SPOHP Awarded Digital Justice Grant"