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.

摘要

在持续不断的长期危机（例如COVID-19）过程中进行口述历史实地调查的性质会发生变化。必须询问口述历史从业者在危机事件中的作用（如果有）。接下来，我将根据我担任路易斯安那州立大学图书馆T.哈里·威廉姆斯口述历史中心主任的经验，以及以危机为中心的口述历史模型，讨论这项工作以及开展COVID-19项目的策略。我还将讨论在当前不断变化的变化和政治动荡时期，对于危机口述历史项目的可持续性，项目经理必须考虑哪些因素。