ABSTRACT The nature of oral history fieldwork changes when it is conducted during the course of an ongoing, long-term crisis like COVID-19. One must ask what the role of the oral history practitioner is, if any, in crisis events. In what follows, I discuss this and strategies for undertaking COVID-19 projects based on my experience as director for the T. Harry Williams Center for Oral History at Louisiana State University Libraries and on models for crisis-centered oral histories. I also discuss what project managers must take into consideration with regard to the sustainability of crisis oral history projects during our current period of increasing change and political unrest.

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“首先，不要伤害”：在口述历史、创伤和当前危机的交叉点上谨慎行事

摘要 在 COVID-19 等持续的长期危机期间进行口述历史实地考察时，其性质会发生变化。人们必须问口述历史从业者在危机事件中的作用是什么（如果有的话）。在下文中，我将根据我担任路易斯安那州立大学图书馆 T. Harry Williams 口述历史中心主任的经验和以危机为中心的口述历史模型讨论这一点以及开展 COVID-19 项目的策略。我还讨论了在我们当前日益变化和政治动荡的时期，项目经理必须考虑哪些危机口述历史项目的可持续性。