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
Mia Martin Hobbs
Dr Mia Martin Hobbs is an oral historian of war and its legacies. She completed her PhD at the University of Melbourne in 2018. Based on her dissertation, her first book, Return to Vietnam: An Oral History of American and Australian Veterans’ Journeys (Cambridge University Press, 2021) won the Oral History Australia Book Award in 2022.
Geraldine Fela
Dr Geraldine Fela is an award-winning historian and Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the School of Humanities at Macquarie University. Her research traverses histories of gender and sexuality, labour, social movements and medicine. In 2025 she was awarded the Prime Ministers Literary Award for her book ‘Critical Care: Nurses on the Frontline of Australia’s AIDS Crisis’ (UNSW Press, 2024).
Editors and Editorial Board
The production of the journal is overseen by its editors and the Editorial Board.
Joint Editors: Mia Martin Hobbs and Geraldine Fela
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, Singapore
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.