Maggie Rivas-Rodriguez, director of the U.S. Latino and Latina World War II Oral History Project, will present “Oral History to Understand Our Present." A reception and book signing will follow the lecture.
Oral history projects abound today, ranging from grade school students interviewing their grandparents to adults interviewing World War II veterans. Rivas-Rodriguez will discuss the more profound questions and issues that face all oral historians. What are the common problems and challenges in all oral history work? What questions should an oral historian ask?
Rivas-Rodriguez spearheaded the U.S. Latino and Latina World War II Oral History Project, which includes interviews with more than 700 men and women throughout the country. At the heart of the project is a rich archive of videotaped interviews, photographs and other documentation. It also has several components designed to reach audiences ranging from school children to academics to the public.
Rivas-Rodriguez is an associate professor of journalism at the University of Texas-Austin. She has more than 17 years of news experience, mostly as a reporter for the Boston Globe, WFAA-TV in Dallas and the Dallas Morning News. She received her doctorate as a Freedom Forum doctoral fellow from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Her master’s degree is from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism and her bachelor’s in journalism is from the University of Texas-Austin.
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