Oral History Project: Final Event

Storytelling plays essential roles in how nuclear policy communities retain knowledge, perceive new challenges, and develop or regenerate expertise. When recorded and preserved as oral history, stories become a primary source that can help future generations understand events or provide data where the historical record is lacking.

The center’s oral history project provided professional training on oral history methodology to policy researchers and analysts who seek to develop their skillsets, add primary source data to the historical record, elevate the role of storytelling in policy discourse, and expand their professional networks. Participants applied their training to prepare, conduct, and publish oral history interviews with risk reduction practitioners. This capstone event for the project will feature the project’s published interviews, a two-day workshop, and the opportunity for additional oral history interviews to be conducted on site.