Community Workshops and Events

Oral History Workshops

Do you want to help collect women’s stories? Interested in interviewing family and friends or joining the WWHP interviewing team? Learn oral history basics to collect, transcribe, and preserve the stories of Worcester women. Workshops were developed with the help of Lisa Krissoff Boehm, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Urban Studies at Worcester State College and Regional Director of the New England branch of the Consortium of Oral History Educators (COHE). She is the author of Popular Culture and the Enduring Myth of Chicago and Making a Way Out of No Way: African American Women, Domestic Work, and the Second Great Migration, 1940-1970, which employs oral histories. She wrote a chapter for the work, Preparing the Next Generation of Oral Historians. Spanish workshops are available with translation by Pablo Guerra and Diana Ojeda, and Judy Freedman Fask, M.Ed., Director of American Sign Language and Deaf Studies at College of the Holy Cross is available to advise on interviews conducted with the deaf community. Specially tailored workshops are available for a fee for local social, religious, or educational groups. Please call 508-767-1852 or e-mail info [at] wwhp [dot] org to request a private workshop.

Oral History Events

The Oral History Project offers events that are open to the public. Events typically involve authors of oral histories and often include student presentations of oral histories of Worcester area women.

December 10, 2009: Dr. Stephen Knott, presidential oral historian and author of At Reagan's Side: Insiders' Recollections from Sacremento to the White House.

Assumption Student, Herbert Woodard

Dr. Knott with OHP Co-chairs, Charlene L. Martin, Maureen Ryan Doyle, and Founding Chair, Linda Rosenlund

April 20, 2009: Dr. Lisa Krissoff Boehm, oral historian and author of Making a Way Out of No Way: African American Women and the Second Great Migration.