Public Humanities Oral History Micro-Credential with Mary Marshall Clark
Applications due Wednesday, November 12th, 2025 — open to Yale graduate students from any program or department
Description: Over four meetings, Mary Marshall Clark will lead a public humanities micro-credential on the uses of oral history in a multidisciplinary framework as a form of living research and testimony. She will lead the class in exploring multidisciplinary methods, including oral history interviewing, analysis and public forms of dissemination. Class members will conduct at least one interview, based on in-class fieldwork training and co-interviewing. The class will also cover the evaluation of interviews for public and academic use, and ethical protocols for interviewing people in vulnerable situations. Mutual listening, with embodiment in mind, will be a strong methodological focus.
Mary Marshall Clark is the Director of the Columbia University Center for Oral History Research. She is co-founding director of Columbia’s Master of Arts degree in Oral History. She has been involved with the oral history movement since 1991 and was president of the United States Oral History Association in 2001-2002.
All meetings will take place on Thursdays from 1:30 to 3:30pm. The dates of the Four In-Person Meetings are: December 11 (lunch provided); January 15; January 29; February 19. Only students who can attend all four meetings should apply. Limited to 8 graduate students.