Studies in Oral History, the journal of Oral History Australia (OHA), is an open-access, online publication that is produced annually and is available through this website for the benefit of OHA members and the broader oral history practitioner community.
Its contents, which include peer-reviewed articles, reports and reviews, reflect the diversity and vitality of oral history practice in Australia and around the world. Contributors are drawn from the ranks of academics and postgraduate students through to institutional, community and consulting oral historians. Contributions are also accepted from overseas authors.
The views expressed by contributors do not necessarily reflect the views of the journal editors, the editorial board or the publisher, Oral History Australia.
Our editors
Skye Krichauff
Dr Krichauff is an ARC Research Fellow at the University of Adelaide. She is interested in colonial cross-cultural relations, the relationship between history and memory, and how societies live with historical injustices (in particular how Australians live with the enduring legacies of colonialism).
Carolyn Collins
Dr Carolyn Collins is an author and oral historian based at the University of Adelaide and an interviewer for the National Library of Australia. A former journalist, Her book Save Our Sons: Women, Dissent and Conscription During the Vietnam War was shortlisted in the 2021 Victorian Community History Awards.
Editors and Editorial Board
The production of the journal is overseen by its editors and the Editorial Board.
Joint Editors: Skye Krichauff and Carolyn Collins
Reports Editor: Alexandra Mountain, Society of Australian Genealogists
Reviews Editor: Gwyn McClelland, University of New England, Australia
Chair of Editorial Board: Alexandra Dellios, Australian National University, Australia
Editorial Board:
- Lynn Abrams, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom
- Indira Chowdury, Srishti-Manipal Institute of Art, Design and Technology,
India - Sean Field, University of Cape Town, South Africa
- Alexander Freund, University of Winnipeg, Canada
- Anna Green, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
- Nepia Mahuika, University of Waikato, New Zealand
- Carla Pascoe Leahy, Australia
- Anisa Puri, Australia
- Beth Robertson, Australia
- Mark Wong, National Archives of Singapore, Malaysia
History of the journal
Oral History Australia and its predecessor, the Oral History Association of Australia, began publishing the journal for the benefit of its members from the inception of the organisation in 1979.
The publication was initially known as the Oral History Association of Australia Journal. From 2014-2019 it was the Oral History Australia Journal (ISSN: 0158 7366). In 2020 the OHA changed the title to Studies in Oral History.
OHA ceased printing copies of the journal with the 2016 issue and since 2017 issues have been published in electronic format only.
In 2020 the OHA decided to make the journal open access.