ABOUT THE SERIES
Doing Oral History will support individuals and institutions in recording, archiving, and interpreting under-documented histories in Baltimore, with a focus on the city’s Black history. Baltimore is a majority Black city with a significant African American history, yet what has been preserved and valorized has too often ignored Black voices. There is an urgent need to document these stories and incorporate them into more comprehensive narratives about our city. 

The workshops, which feature a keynote by Kelly E. Navies, Museum Specialist in Oral History at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, will be led by local curators, archivists, representatives of Inheritance Baltimore, and participants of Baltimore Speaks, a network of local oral historians. Attendees will gain a working knowledge of oral history: a field of study and a method of recording, preserving, and interpreting people’s experiences of the past through the prism of the present. 

Workshop Facilitators: 

• Hosted by: Angela Koukoui, Co-Director of JHU/UB Community Archives Program, University of Baltimore

• Aiden Faust, Associate Director of Special Collections and Archives, University of Baltimore

• Catherine Mayfield, Maryland Center for History and Culture, Baltimore Speaks

• Joseph Plaster, Inheritance Baltimore, Tabb Center

• Panel facilitated by Sheri Parks, MICA’s Vice President for Strategic Initiatives:

  • Megan McShea, Independent Audiovisual Archivist

  • Daisy Brown, The Peale’s Storytelling Ambassador

  • Jodi Hoover, Digital Resources Manager, Digital Maryland

  • Maria Day, Director, Special Collections & Conservation, Maryland State Archives

The workshops are free. Space is limited.
Participants must register: