possible to mute participants on arrival?

Are we supposed to be able to hear yet?

Yes there is sound!

yes did you remember to join by computer audio

Welcome, everyone! So excited for this opportunity to work with you!

Thank you, OHA, for this grant opportunity! The focus on under and unemployed oral historians is so so important.

Hello Everyone! I am newbie to this opportunity and Oral History. I am so excited to be involved, learn, grow and share! I am the Administrative Assistant to Dr. Gloria Wade-Gayles, Spelman College ( SIS Oral History Program)

HI everyone. I was really excited to receive the announcement and invitation to this info session. Can't wait to go through the process with you

Hello everyone! I’ve been in the oral history world for a while, and am now most involved in the Transgender Oral History project at Georgia State University. Very interested in learning more about the fellowship program.

Forgot to say that I am in my final year as Lehman Brady Fellow/Dual Visiting Professor at Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University and American Studies Dept at UNC-Chapel University

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Shout out to Kelly!

*UNC Chapel-Hill

Hi Liu!

Dear Colleagues, here is the link to the Oral History Association's website: https://www.oralhistory.org/ And please let me know if you have additional questions about OHA. My email is ortizprof@gmail.com

Would you give the dates for the fellowship period again

April 2022-May 2023

Thank you

Hello, all, grateful for this opportunity to learn about all of your work and this grant. As a survivor of the Fall of Saigon, I have been recording the stories of survivors of the Vietnam War since the age of 9 and made the PBS documentary Oh, Saigon featuring oral histories of different perspectives from war survivors.

Fellowships will begin sometime between April 1 and May 31 2022, depending on your availability, and will run for 12 months

Do the mini grants cover oral history research projects?

Do the mini grants support project planning?

Question: Please explain more about the SS Disability with no work attachment?

Good question, Stephanie! I have the same one!

Can the project then be an oral history project that is not US-based, but international, or has oral histories conducted with narrators from other countries?

Would you please expand on the sense of contingent employment here. If we have a year-to-year contract and would give it up for this, would we qualify?

any idea how they define journalist? occasional freelance work considered “journalist”? or do they mean full-time staff?

If am due to defend my dissertation at the end of January/early February is that close enough to January 15th?

Thank you.

So applicants need to be very experienced in oral history projects, or can people from other fields who are now embarking on an oral history project apply?

Given that the goal is to help diversify the field, does this need to be a professionally trained oral historian or could it be a community culture keeper, griot, interviewer or story TELLER with deep cultural expertise who we help train?

I would like more detail on the "performing arts professional." I

Great, thanks so much!

how can we frame the details of our proposal with a community while still adhering to SJ principles of shared power in the conception, design, strategy & implementation of the project? Can we center a broad focus goal that can be flexible to the leadership direction of the participants?

Can you confirm that the applicants must be individuals, not nonprofits facilitating an oral history project?

What about someone has applied for disability and been denied or has an application in process?

I am a fully employed oral historian (for the first time! feels very lucky), working on the next iteration of a workforce training program in oral history for public housing residents. Would this work be eligible for the research grant, given that it focuses on under/unemployed people (even though I am not personally under/unemployed)? We envision the grant going towards our research and development of our curriculum.

Does the employee who works in the project has to be full time employee? Can an agency appoint two employees and have them work during weekends in 1FTE capacity?

Can it be an already existing (long-term) project?

for the mini-grants for research & work to build justice in the field, can teams apply? if so, can they be combined of people and supporting organizations/non-profits? or just individuals? and, last question: can individuals or teams submit multiple mini-grant applications for different projects, or be a part of or listed on different project teams/applications?

I'm still a bit confused on the "retirement" Social Security question. I am an elder who collects Social Security but work part time. So I am not really "retired" but under employed. Also, it is possible to be on SSDI and SSI and work, one would have to be in a "spend down" program. Someone who knows more about SSI/SSDI would be able to explain this more.

If am due to defend my dissertation at the end of January/early February is that close enough to January 15th?

We are the mass hip-hop archive and want to partner with community members on this. THANKS! helpful

I am new to the OHA community. While this funding opportunity does not suit me (I am a full-time faculty member), are there other grant opportunities for those in academia?

Thank you for that information.

Question: Will it be possible to acquire more information about Social Security from the NEH?

Could you clarify: the mini-grants could cover oral history projects that are focused on oral history on a meta level, but ALSO regular oral history projects that are short-term (ie. those that would topically be covered by the main research grant)?

If one is currently under employed as an oral historian working for a university seeking full-time employment within their current position through their university (with no guarantee that that will happen), could one still apply for the fellowship as they are currently under employed?

If I retired from a job, receive social security but not with restrictions on working, and have been working without pay managing a nonprofit organization and doing oral history projects in that context, would I be eligible?

If we do not qualify this year (e.g., if we are not completing our PhD until the spring), will there be another round next year or is this grant available for this year only?

Got it. Thank you!

Question: What are the grant application guidelines and requirements/components?

I was not able to attend the social justice workshop - is there a recording of that available?

Okay, thanks! I'll pass it on!

for the mini-grants for research & work to build justice in the field, can teams apply? if so, can they be combined of people and supporting organizations/non-profits? or just individuals? and, last question: can individuals or teams submit multiple mini-grant applications for different projects, or be a part of or listed on different project teams/applications?

Can the project be the organizing & preservation of 0 plus years recordings of an Interdisciplinary Arts Conference that includes poetry, storytelling, that includes Joseph Campbell, Naomie Shiba Nice, Robert Bly & others.

***Questions by Ginger

I understand that the mission of the grant it to bring in underrepresented voices and historians. I have a social justice oral history project in another country but I am a white middle class person so I'm assuming I should not apply for this grant, is that right?

Part of the fellowship requirements include being able to work full time for a year. I am due to have a baby in July. Would that disqualify me from being able to apply, even if my maternity leave was short?

Can you expand on the sustainability criteria?

I want to address “retirement” underemployment and the perception of age discrimination. I too am retired over age 65 receiving social security (not disability). I wish to apply , and would like to challenge the notion that a retired person is by definition if not working or in need of employment.

Can awardees take on short-term consulting work (as a 1099 employee) during the grant period?

If someone is employed and seeking to be employed as an oral historian, would they need to be resigned from their current role prior to applying to the fellowship?

Just posted the question about preserving recordings of a conference. It should say 20 plus years.

Can a volunteer who works in a non-profit organization apply for this grant?

What would you suggest to people who would have to give up health insurance that comes with a contingent contract in order to take this grant? This seems a limiting factor that would stop some people from applying.

(I belong to a collective of Indigenous activists and occasionally receive honoraria for speaking)

I would like more detail on the "performing arts professional."

Do you have to be fully defended by Jan 15 for the mini-grants?

Can you repeat again the sources of institutional support that was mentioned?

Hello, I am a freelance journalist, a cultural keeper and a homeschooling mom (not his instructor, though). Does that make me not eligible?

Would someone who is finishing up a different year-long fellowship in May (also a Covid-response funding opportunity) and doesn’t have work lined up afterwards be eligible employment-wise?

Did I miss the decision announcement date/timeline for the fellowship?

Can we apply for a phase of a larger oral history project that includes interviews but also archiving

How is the fellowship structured to support oral historians seeking full time employment after the program?

Great question Kenji! I also have this question: Would someone who is finishing up a different year-long fellowship in May (also a Covid-response funding opportunity) and doesn’t have work lined up afterwards be eligible employment-wise?

What if you work and collect Social Security does that eliminate you

1. Could you provide and example of what kind of project would in partner with an organization, be eligible? For example, if the organization already has a established project, but the proposal is to generate or support a new branch of the project? And

Thank you for developing a future FAQ based on this conversation and other questions.

thank you!

Can you talk more about the supports provided during the fellowship?

Can it be an ongoing project that was launched by academic institutions but the individual will be graduating and would like to continue to work on the project full time? Sorry if this has been answered already.

https://www.oralhistory.org/neh/

2. Can people apply to both fellowship and mini grants, or just one?

Can the grant be awarded to a non-profit to pay an individual doing a project?

They said you can apply for both but only receive one, prioritize if one is more important than another.

how do freelancers fit into the idea of “underemployed”? like: freelancers experience a lot of precarity & don’t have stability, & work across multiple orgs, but may have lots of contracts at some points & none at others.

Sorry I came in a bit late - would the projects from the mini grant (oral history stories) be hosted /accessible on your department's website?

When you contact the NEH you might want to point out that both SSI and SSDI have programs that enable people to work and still be eligible for those programs. This enables people with disabilities to pursue employment while remaining on Medicaid as their health insurance provider. You might also add that since disability is now recognized as a form of diversity, and given how many people with disabilities are on SSI and SSDI, to exclude anyone on those programs would seem to work against the goal of including typically marginalized communities.

I came late too! Wondering if possible to use the grant for a team vs. one person?

does an applicant have to have a formal humanities and oral history background? can build a support team

If an applicant is Adjuncting one class which basically covers our health insurance, will that disqualify someone?

So the focus on addressing "historic exclusions" is based upon the practitioner and not the project?

When speaking with NEH representative, you might review the Public Scholars Grant with similar requirements offered by NEH which does not seem to have a SS requirement as a rationale.

Please explain the eligibility restriction on homeschooling instructors. Does that apply to a parent serving as a homeschool teacher for his or her own children?

can you speak on the upper cap of the funding ,please?

^^

do we have to submit budget justification?

Thank you!

Thank you, everyone. This is super helpful.

Someone mentioned a parallel NEH grant to smaller cultural organizations - could you put the name of that program in the chat?

Some of us have always worked full time and often carried a second job :) usually out of necessity. It's possible to juggle both, not optimal of course!

If a person is normally a performer but will not perform during the grant period, can they apply?

who does the final product go to? the who does the project or to OHA?

Can you clarify or expand on the sustainability criteria?

"the one who*

Does the timeline for the Fellowship (April/May 22-23) also apply to the mini-grant projects?

Thank you!

Are there expectations for the project to in some way belong to the OHA, or able to be used by the OHA?

Question: Would you please describe what types of professional development, mentoring and training that OHA is anticipating and what time requirements are anticipated?

Is the grant paid in installments like monthly salary?

Follow up question on sustainability - so the sustainability is for the person as an oral historian, not for the sustainability of the project they are working on?

Is there any preference for projects that will include the results in an archive, collection or other public facing repository?

Repeating question from someone else (that I also have): Does the timeline for the Fellowship (April/May 22-23) also apply to the mini-grant projects?

You might have already said this, but how much are the mini-grants for and are those also primarily for underrepresented populations?

thanks

Question: Eleven fellowship will be awarded, how many mini-grants will be awarded?

I missed the beginning part of this session. Will the recording be shared?

Does the person have to have a degree in the humanities, if their degree is in environmental management, but they have been practicing oral historian and ethnography for years?

Yes, the recording will be shared afterwards

Will we receive a 1099 at the end of the year?

Are resistance organizers an underrepresented group that would fit in the research grant?

May we apply for project related expenses throughout the year or do we need to identify those upfront?

Can you say more about eligible items for the additional "$2100 for other expenses" for the fellowship? Does this include travel? Interview compensation?

Hi Carrie and Michael! ❤

Are digital humanities projects that are designed to incorporate the oral histories considered when assessing sustainability or is sustainability specifically about employment beyond the fellowship year?

Are staff members available to respond to questions before the application deadline?

Also, are there more details available on the "online interviewing and transcription platform"?

Thank you for this info! For the mini-grants: if projects have some other funding sources, are they still eligible for this grant?

Thank you so much for making this happen and good luck to all of the applicants!

Thank you!

I like to pay interviewees - if the $2100 is not sufficient to cover that and other operating expenses, could I look for funds from a different source to help compensate interviewees?

Thank you for providing this session.

yessssss plz pay narrators 👏🔥💥

Question: Thank you for this information Session: Will you have a second session after speaking with NEH Representative and when do you anticipate FAQ will be available

Would the grant be able to be used to compensate narrators or is it solely for the fellow?

Thank you so much!

Thank you for all this information!

Thank you! I am not eligible, but I wish you all luck! Thank you to the selection committee for taking this on!

Reposting this important question: Reposting this question: Follow up question on sustainability - so the sustainability is for the person as an oral historian, not for the sustainability of the project they are working on?

Here is the page at the NEH that describes all the grant making programs that are now ongoing.

https://www.neh.gov/sharp/grantmaking

Thanks!

do Indigenous applicants need to provide enrollment verification?

how many mini grants?

how much are the mini-grants, how many of them are there, and are they restricted to people who are from underrepresented communities?

to be eligible you can't be in OHA council, but can you be on a committee?

Thank you all for this amazing effort!!

Question: When will the FAQ be available?

Part of the fellowship requirements include being able to work full time for a year. I am due to have a baby in July. Would that disqualify me from being able to apply, even if my maternity leave was short?

We will work to have the FAQ available by early next week

Are resistance organizers like pipeline fighters an underrepresented group that would fit in the research grant if we’re documenting them and perhaps making theater?

Thank y’all so much for this opportunity!

I just wanted to tell whoever wrote this grant that you all did an awesome thing for this community, for the field, for the stories that need to be told, etc. Thank you.

Honorarium for mentors?

Yes, we have budgeted for honoraria for mentors

I agree with you Carol Gray!

The mentorship component is not included in the fellowship amount rather the cost of it will be paid by OHa

yes, very excited for this opportunity!

thanks for acknowledging that, Carol

The selection committee, and their emails, are listed here: https://www.oralhistory.org/neh/#Selection-Committee. For other questions you can also email the OHA at oha@oralhistory.org and we will work to answer your questions.

Mentor honoraria are part of the general grant budget and do not come from fellows' stipends.

thank you Marie for saying all this, so true

Thanks for uplifting this Marie. My thought exactly

I want to spread the word about this fellowship and agree with Marie that some confusion exist related to community griot style oral historians versus academically trained oral historians. Not sure how to explain the award criteria.

Could their be a service-learning partnership with an academic institution?

Thank you everyone! Such a great opportunity!!

Thank you all!

Thank you for the seminar!

Thank you all. This was highly informative!

Suggestion: While not planned for a second information session, please consider a second information session.

Tammy Clemmons, I think an oral history project with a service learning component is very interesting and would be competitive.

To the speaker with the contingent faculty question: You can totally ask for a leave of absence. I teach at a community college and have seniority and when I got a grant for a year, I asked for a leave of absence, had the letter confirming approval of the leave placed in my personnel file and it did not count against me in terms of losing my seniority by not being able to teach for the year.

Thank you all, so much, for this very helpful session, and for making this grant/fellowship available. It’s so needed.

From the Preservation Society of Charleston, I thank you all for answering all of our questions!

Are there more details available on the "online interviewing and transcription platform" available for the fellowship?

Thank you for this information session.

Thank you for this session. It has provided excellent info and has great goals!

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Yes! Thank you for writing the grant and developing this program! This has been a rough couple years of underemployment.

Thank you for all of this information!

Thank you for this SUPER informative session.

Thank you for this session and the design of this grant!

👏🏽 Thanks to OHA and everyone involved. An enormous and appreciated effort!!

This is an innovative start and beginning. Nice job and very creative planning shows in this grant opportunity. Thanks

Thank you so much, it will be very exciting to see what comes from this opportunity and the fellows work!

Bravo! Thank all of you!

Thank you!

Deep thanks to everyone!

Thanks so much!

Thank you!

Thank you!

Thank you very much!

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thank you so much!

Take care and thank you everyone

Thank you all so much!

Thank you so much!

Thanks everyone!

Thank you for your time and efforts!

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Gracias!

Happy holidays, everyone!

Thank you!

Faith is fantastic!

Thank you, Cheyenne!

Thanks everyone!

Awesome job everyone!!

Thank you for making the opportunity and all the information available!

Thank you all so much

thank you faith! thank you cheyenne! ❤️👏💥

Thanks all