EP 29: Carly Adams presents, "Oral History Workshop"

On December 6, 2024, SASH hosted an Oral History Workshop with Carly Adams, a Board of Governors Research Chair (Tier I), Director of the Centre for Oral History and Tradition and Professor in the Department of Kinesiology and Physical Education at the University of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. Arrow Salkeld moderated the discussion. The Oral History Workshop presented an overview of the basics of conducting oral histories while also delving deeper into how to make an oral history interview more conversational, how to bring out more analysis, and how to improvise rather than simply sticking to a script to only ask the participant predetermined questions. Carly Adams is a Board of Governors Research Chair (Tier I), Director of the Centre for Oral History and Tradition and Professor in the Department of Kinesiology and Physical Education at the University of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. As a social historian and an advocate for oral history, her research explores community, resiliency, and gender with a focus on sport, recreation, and leisure experiences. She co-leads the Nikkei Memory Capture Project, a community-based oral history project focusing on Japanese Canadian histories in southern Alberta (with Dr. Darren Aoki at the University of Plymouth, UK). She is the author of Queens of the Ice (Lorimer), editor of Sport and Recreation in Canadian History (Human Kinetics), co-editor of the Routledge Handbook of Sport History (Routledge), and the editor of Sport History Review. Her work has appeared in, among others, Journal of Sport History, Journal of Canadian Studies, Memory Studies, The International Journal of the History of Sport, International Review for the Sociology of Sport, and many edited collections. Adams was the recipient of the 2023 NASSH Sue and Ron Smith Service Award and the NASSH 2022 Guy Lewis Award for Contributions to the Field of Sport History. Podcast produced by Brian Quarstad. Music created by LiteSaturation and found at Pixabay. View the video of the session at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIjpg0QDVko Visit the SASH website at https://www.ussoccerhistory.org/ Join SASH at https://www.ussoccerhistory.org/store/sash-membership-one-year/