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Hart Hall 3201
This presentation will focus on why one would consider using the oral history research methodology, the opportunities and limits of this approach, and an overview of the basic principles and practices of conducting oral history interviews. Kohl-Arenas will share oral history interview samples from her current research in Mississippi and from her forthcoming book, Unruly Utopias.
Bio: Dr. Erica Kohl-Arenas is an Associate Professor of American Studies at the University of California, Davis and the national director of Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life. She is a scholar of grassroots community development and the radical imaginations and deferred dreams of social movements that become entangled with the politics of professionalization, institutionalization, and philanthropy. Kohl-Arenas is the author of the book “The Self-Help Myth: How Philanthropy Fails to Alleviate Poverty” (UC Press, 2016) and is working on a book about radical world building projects from the 1960s and today in rural California and beyond. She is the co-organizer of two action research projects, including one on transforming higher education to better support activist and public scholarship, and another on the reclamation of land and agriculture in building self-determined futures in rural Black Mississippi as a partner with the Mississippi Center for Cultural Production (Sipp Culture).
Bio: Dr. Erica Kohl-Arenas is an Associate Professor of American Studies at the University of California, Davis and the national director of Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life. She is a scholar of grassroots community development and the radical imaginations and deferred dreams of social movements that become entangled with the politics of professionalization, institutionalization, and philanthropy. Kohl-Arenas is the author of the book “The Self-Help Myth: How Philanthropy Fails to Alleviate Poverty” (UC Press, 2016) and is working on a book about radical world building projects from the 1960s and today in rural California and beyond. She is the co-organizer of two action research projects, including one on transforming higher education to better support activist and public scholarship, and another on the reclamation of land and agriculture in building self-determined futures in rural Black Mississippi as a partner with the Mississippi Center for Cultural Production (Sipp Culture).
For more information please contact kndabdoub@ucdavis.edu
Event sponsored by Cultural Studies Graduate Group
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