OHMA Faculty
STAFF
Mary Marshall Clark is Director of OHRO, a past president of the Oral History Association. Clark's recent work includes the formation of collective memory after traumatic events.
Peter Bearman is former Director of ISERP and the Cole Professor of Social Science at Columbia University. His current research focuses on the autism epidemic.
Ruksana Sussewell is the Associate Director of the OHMA Program. She recently completed an international oral history of the development of public interest law in South Africa.
MiRi Park is the Program Coordinator of the OHMA Program. Her research focuses on the breaking (b-boy/b-girl) scene in New York City.
FACULTY
Students will be advised by the directors of OHMA, or may choose an advisor from among the Columbia faculty. Some potential advisors are listed below; note, however, that this is not an exhaustive list of potential advisors.
ELAZAR BARKAN (INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS)
Human rights, history and reconciliation
PETER BEARMAN (SOCIOLOGY)
Comparative and historical sociology, social networks, social theory
ELIZABETH BLACKMAR (HISTORY)
U.S. history, urban history
ALEX BLUMBERG (JOURNALISM)
Radio documentary
MARY MARSHALL CLARK (ORAL HISTORY)
Oral history research methods, social memory, historic trauma
BARBARA FIELDS (HISTORY)
U.S. southern history, African American history
MANNING MARABLE (INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS)
African American history, contemporary history, oral history
MARIANNE HIRSCH (COMPARATIVE LITERATURE)
Cultural studies, gender studies, memory, trauma, performance
ELLEN MARAKOWITZ (ANTHROPOLOGY)
Ethnography, research on society and culture
PATRICIA O'TOOLE (NONFICTION WRITING)
U.S. history, nonfiction writing
LUISA PASSERINI (UNIVERSITY OF TURIN, ITALY; HISTORY)
History, memory, European politics, oral history
SAMUEL ROBERTS (HISTORY, PUBLIC HEALTH)
African American history, public health
DAVID ROSNER (HISTORY, PUBLIC HEALTH)
U.S. history, public health, public health institutions
LEO SPITZER (HISTORY)
South African history, oral history, memory
ANDERS STEPHANSON (HISTORY)
History, memory, historical research methods
