Summer Institute on Oral History 2009
Faculty Profiles
Peter Bearman is Director the Lazarsfeld Center for the Social Sciences, the Cole Professor of Social Science, and Co-Director of the Health & Society Scholars Program. He was the founding director of ISERP, serving from the Institute's launch in 2000 until 2008. A specialist in network analysis, he co-designed the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health and has used the data extensively for research on topics including adolescent sexual networks, networks of disease transmission, and genetic influences on same-sex preference. He is the author of Doormen, published in 2005 by the University of Chicago Press. With Mary Marshall Clark, he was co-principal investigator of the September 11, 2001 Oral History Narrative and Memory Project. He is co-founder, with Clark, of the new Master of Arts in Oral History at Columbia University.
Rita Charon is Professor of Clinical Medicine and Director of the Program in Narrative Medicine at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. A general internist with a primary care practice in Presbyterian Hospital, Dr. Charon directs the Narrative Medicine curriculum and teaches literature, narrative ethics, and life-telling, both in the medical center and Columbia's Department of English. She is currently Principal Investigator on an NIH project to enhance the teaching of social science and behavioral science in medical schools and has received a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Residence and a Guggenheim Fellowship. She is author of Narrative Medicine: Honoring the Stories of Illness and co-editor of Psychoanalysis and Narrative Medicine and Stories Matter: The Role of Narrative in Medical Ethics.
Mary Marshall Clark is the director of the Oral History Research Office at Columbia University. Formerly, she was an oral historian and filmmaker at the New York Times. She was president of the Oral History Association in 2002. Ms. Clark lectures widely on the uses and theories of oral history. She is the founder, with Peter Bearman, of the September 11, 2001 Oral History Narrative and Memory Project, and co-directs the Master of Arts in Oral History. Clark writes on issues of memory, trauma and ethics in oral history.
Sayantani DasGupta is an assistant clinical professor of pediatrics and a core faculty member of the Program in Narrative Medicine at Columbia University. She also teaches in the graduate program in Health Advocacy at Sarah Lawrence College, and is a prose faculty member in the summer writing conference Writing the Medical Experience at Sarah Lawrence College. Dr. DasGupta is co-author of The Demon Slayers and Other Stories: Bengali Folktales (1995), author of Her Own Medicine: A Woman's Journey from Student to Doctor (1999), and co-editor of Stories of Illness and Healing: Women Write Their Bodies (2007). Her work has appeared journals including in The Lancet, JAMA, Pediatrics, The HastingsCenter Report, Literature and Medicine, Teaching and Learning in Medicine, and The Journal of Medical Humanities. She is an associate editor of the journal Literature and Medicine, and her current interests are in issues of gender and race in illness narratives, and genomic narratives in film. Dr. DasGupta holds an A.B. from Brown University , and an M.D./M.P.H. from Johns Hopkins University.
Kathy Davis is senior researcher at the Institute of History and Culture at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. She has published extensively on contemporary feminist approaches to the body, the beauty culture and cosmetic surgery, biography as methodology, intersectionality and transnational feminism. Her most recent book, The Making of Our Bodies, Ourselves: How Feminism Travels Across Borders (2007) received prizes from the American Sociological Association Section Sex and Gender, the American Anthropological Association, and the American Historical Association. She is the editor of The European Journal of Women’s Studies (with Gail Lewis) and has held visiting chairs and research fellowships at Wellesley College, Columbia University, the Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Studies at Harvard University, as well as the Maria Jahoda Chair for International Women’s Studies at Bochum University in Germany.
Jeff Friedman was recently promoted to Associate Professor on the faculty of the Department of Dance at Rutgers University. He holds a PhD in Dance History and Theory from the University of California and is also a certified Laban Movement Analyst. In 1988, Jeff founded Legacy, an oral history program for the dance communities of the San Francisco Bay Area. Legacy's collection now includes audio, video and digital life-histories with artists, educators, designers, critics and administrators in dance, music, theater and other performing arts genres, currently held at the San Francisco Museum of Performance & Design. Most recently, Jeff has been guest faculty in New Zealand (2007) and Korea (2008), and will be a Fulbright fellow at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Frankfurt, Germany (2009-2010).
Lynn Garafola is Professor of Dance at Barnard College. She is a dance historian and critic whose articles have been published in Dance Magazine, The Nation, and the Times Literary Supplement. She is also the former editor of the book series "Studies in Dance History." Professor Garafola served as guest curator of the exhibition "Dance for a City: Fifty Years of the New York City Ballet" at the New-York Historical Society. Her other exhibitions have included "500 Years of Italian Dance: Treasures from the Cia Fornaroli Collection" (with Patrizia Veroli) and "New York Story: Jerome Robbins and his World," both at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. Currently, she is working on a new exhibition, "Diaghilev's Theater of Marvels: The Ballets Russes and Its Aftermath," which will take place at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts in June 2009. She is a former Getty Scholar, recipient of fellowships from the Social Science Research Council and National Endowment for the Humanties, and is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Victoria Phillips Geduld is a Ph.D. candidate in cultural and political history at Columbia University where she received her B.A., followed by an MBA in Finance. She holds two Master's degrees from New York University. Her articles have appeared in the New York Times, American Communist History, Ethel Winter and her Choreography, Grant's Interest Rate Observer, and will appear in Ballet Review and Dance Chronicle. Her exhibit, Dance is a Weapon, opened at the Centre National de la Dance in 2008 and toured through France. The exhibit included the publication of an extensive catalogue. She has received fellowships from the Japan Society, the Library of Congress, and George Washington University's Summer Institute. At Columbia she was a Business/SIPA Fellow. She was awarded the Selma Jeanne Cohen Award by the Society of Dance History Scholars in 2008. She has presented her work in the U.S., France, and the U.K.
Ronald J. Grele is the former director of the Oral History Research Office. He is author of Envelopes of Sound: The Art of Oral History as well as numerous articles on the theory and method of oral history. Dr. Grele is past president of the Oral History Association, and was a founding member of the Executive Council of the International Association of Oral History. He writes and lectures widely on oral history and the nature of historical consciousness.
Marsha Hurst is on the faculty of Columbia's Narrative Medicine Program and is a research scholar at Columbia University's Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy, where she is coordinating a faculty seminar on Narrative Genetics. She is also a consultant on health advocacy programs, issues, and education with particular interest in women's health and aging. From 1998 through 2007, Hurst was the director of the graduate program in health advocacy at Sarah Lawrence. Hurst co-edited, with Sayantani DasGupta, Stories of Illness and Healing: Women Write Their Bodies, an anthology of women's illness narratives (2007). She is also co-founder and vice president of the Westchester End-of-Life Coalition and a member of the New York State Palliative Care Education and Training Council.
Ynestra King is a writer and editor. She holds an MFA in writing from Columbia University. She is currently completing a memoir on issues of gender and disability. She is the editor of two books: Dangerous Intersections: Feminist Perspectives on Population, Environment and Development (with Jael Silliman), and Rocking the Ship of State: Toward a Feminist Peace Politics(with Adrienne Harris).
Jose Carlos Sebe Bom Meihy is an oral historian at the University of São Paulo, Brazil. An expert in the biographical aspects of oral history and life writing, Dr. Sebe Bom Meihy has done extensive work in defining the uses of dreams as narratives in oral history, particularly in his interviews of immigrant women in the Dominican community. His publications include The Life and Death of Carolina Maria de Jesus, The Unedited Diaries of Carolina Maria de Jesus, and Brasil Fora de Si: Experiências de Brasileiros em Nova York.
Alessandra Nicifero received her MA in Dance Studies from D.A.M.S., the school of performing arts in Bologna, Italy. From 1995 to 1998 she was president of a non-profit organization,Superdrim, engaged in promoting a culture of recycling by transforming discarded objects into artifacts and deserted urban spaces into playgrounds through installations, performances, and educational programs. Since moving to New York in 1999, she has been working as translator and dance critic. She has been writing for Hystrio, an Italian quarterly journal on performing arts, and she recently completed a monograph on Bill T. Jones for the Italian publishing press L’Epos, forthcoming 2009. Her major interests focus on movement analysis, social choreography, spatial organization of memories, and bilingualism.
MiRi Park is the Program Coordinator of the Oral History MA Program at Columbia, and teaches hip-hop at NYU Steinhardt School of Education Dance program. She holds an MA in American Studies from Columbia and a BFA in Dance and a BA in Journalism from UMass, Amherst. She has presented her thesis entitled, “Dancing Like a Girl: An oral history of NYC b-girls in the 1990s,” at CORD, the Society of Dance History Scholars, the Pop Cultural Conference (PCA/ACA), and the Oral History and Performance Conference. She has written for The Village Voice, KoreAm Journal and Dance Spirit Magazine. MiRi reps with her crews Fox Force Five/FMinit, TEC, and BIS, and currently works with choreographers Doug Elkins, and Malcolm Low. She has worked with Rennie Harris, Marlies Yearby, and Nia Love.
Alessandro Portelli is a professor of American Literature at the University of Rome. He is author of The Death of Luigi Trastulli and Other Stories: Form and Meaning in Oral History; The Battle of Valle Guilia: Oral History and the Art of Dialogue; and most recently The Order Has Been Carried Out: History, Memory and Meaning of a Nazi Massacre in Rome, winner of the prestigious Viareggio prize in Italy. His essays on oral history and narrative have appeared in many journals throughout the world.
Steve Rowland is a Peabody Award winning radio documentary producer/director. He is president and founder of CultureWorks, Ltd. a non-profit documentary production company. He has been working in radio for twenty-five years, using music as a window to explore issues in American History, society, race relations, human creativity, spirituality, aesthetic beauty, the nature of 'change' and human possibility.
Linda Shopes is a freelance editor, project manager, and oral historian. She has worked on, consulted for, and written about oral and public history projects for over two decades and currently coedits Palgrave's Studies in Oral History Series. Ms. Shopes is co-editor of Oral History and Public Memories (2008) and of The Baltimore Book: New Views of Local History (1991); and author of the on-line essay, Making Sense of Oral History, on the History Matters website. She is a past president of the Oral History Association.
Amy Starecheski is a doctoral student in cultural anthropology at the City University of New York Graduate Center, where she is pursuing research on historical memory, activist subjectivities, and political space in New York City. Prior to beginning that program, she was the Chief Interviewer and Director of Research for the 550 hour Atlantic Philanthropies Oral History Project at the Columbia University Oral History Research Office, and a lead interviewer on the September 11, 2001 Narrative and Memory Project, for which she interviewed Afghans, Muslims, Sikhs, activists, low-income people, and the unemployed. Amy is co-author of the Telling Lives Oral History Curriculum Guide, and teaches an annual course at Columbia University Teachers College on “Oral History as a Multidisciplinary Teaching Tool.”
Laura Starecheski is an award-winning audio producer whose work has aired on WNYC's Radio Lab, Studio 360, The World, Chicago Public Radio, and elsewhere. She has produced podcasts for clients like the Brooklyn Historical Society, The Poetry Foundation, Parents Magazine and The New Yorker. She is a professor of sound production at the City University of New York, and has taught recording and radio production to people of all ages for NPR's Next Generation Radio, outLoud Radio in San Francisco, The New School, Columbia's Teachers College, The Association of Independents in Radio and others.
Dorinda Welle is a Program Officer in Sexuality, Reproductive Health and Rights at the Ford Foundation. Her portfolio has two areas of focus: 1) promoting comprehensive sexuality education in schools through strategic cross-movement partnerships between sexuality education advocates and the education sector; and 2) supporting sexuality research and research training programs that directly inform public policy, sexual and reproductive rights, and public education. Dorinda received her Ph.D. in cultural anthropology and her M.A. in medical anthropology from the New School for Social Research. Over the past 20 years, she has integrated oral history methods into ethnographic and public health research on homelessness, the prison system, drug abuse and drug recovery, and young people growing up in the AIDS epidemic in the US and China. Her work documents the confrontation between social systems that aim to fragment or erase the self through the institutional management of bodies and identities (Foucauldian biopower), and narrative practices that recover and reassert the self and sensuality as social and political forces (the "bio"power of lifestory narration). She has served on scientific review committees (HIV/AIDS, community health, and small business grants) for the National Institutes of Health, and has published in numerous public health and social science journals.
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