Amy Starecheski
Biographic Data
| ID | 92933 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Amy Starecheski |
| GIVEN NAMES | Amy |
| FAMILY NAME | Starecheski |
| SIGNATURE | STARECHESKI A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Columbia University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Hybrid Epistemology
This paper describes how sociologists and oral historians collaborated to create, register, and analyze an extensive archive of interviews with New Yorkers during the Covid-19 pandemic. The challenges of framing the project, forming a team of interviewers, recruiting participants, and conducting interviews within the demands and urgency of pandemic conditions led researchers to reexamine their respective disciplinary foundations and methodologica…
Oral History and Anthropology
Oral historians no longer can take it for granted that the seated, recorded, one-on-one life history interview is the best way to do our work. We are rewriting our origin stories, questioning who our disciplinary ancestors are, and imagining what roots we would want to draw from to build more expansive futures for our field. In this moment of expanding our methodology, the discipline of anthropology has much to offer oral historians, and vice ver…
Using Covid-19 Oral History Archives to Support Equitable and Creative Solutions to Contemporary Public Health Challenges
The COVID-19 pandemic sparked what may be the largest number of oral history projects addressing a single public health issue. These collections range from brief informal efforts like those created in classrooms across the country to rigorous and formal projects led by institutions and those with expertise in oral history and archiving. The contribution of this article to existing methodological knowledge is that it brings an underutilized form o…
Curated Stories
What is the relationship between oral history and storytelling? How can oral history be used to further social justice? These are two of the most urgent and difficult questions facing oral history ...
Squatters make history in New York
As illegal squatters became cooperative homeowners on New York City's Lower East Side, they strategically used the logic and law of property to turn their homes into commodities. But they did so within limits: individuals can sell their apartments at fixed prices yet also collectively maintain the buildings as low-income housing, valuing their homes as both a source of individual sustenance and an inalienable resource that ties generations togeth…
Migration, Squatting and Radical Autonomy
Pierpaolo Mudu and Sutapa Chattopadhyay, eds. New York, NY: Routledge, 2017. xxii and 294 pp., ack., foreword, figs., tables, index, refs $145.00 cloth (ISBN 9781138942127), $54.95 electronic (ISBN
A Shared Authority
This article is related to:A Shared Authority: Essays on the Craft and Meaning of Oral and Public History. By Michael FrischA Shared Authority: Essays on the Craft and Meaning of Oral and Public History. By Michael FrischA Shared Authority: Essays on the Craft and Meaning of Oral and Public History. By Michael FrischA Shared Authority: Essays on the Craft and Meaning of Oral and Public History. By Michael Frisch
Knowing History in Mexico
In this book, anthropologist Trevor Stack presents some of the insights gained during over twenty years of intermittent fieldwork in a small town, Tapalpa, and a neighboring village, Atacco, both a...
Squatting History
This article analyzes the historical practices of one intergenerational activist community—squatters in New York City—to ground an ethnographic exploration of how oral history works as an affective social practice and a means for harnessing the authority of history. By comparing three case studies of oral history telling, the research presents instances in which history has been consciously used to try to pass on activist knowledge to a new gener…
Squatting in Europe
Additional informationNotes on contributorsAmy Starecheski is the Associate Director of the Oral History MA Program at Columbia University, New York City
Oral History, Community and Displacement
"Oral History, Community and Displacement: Imagining Memories in Post-Apartheid South Africa." The Oral History Review, 40(2), pp. 466–469
Soviet Communal Living
In Soviet Communal Living, journalist Paola Messana aims to give the Western reader an insider’s view of life in communal apartments both under communism and today. A foreword from Studies in Oral ...
In Our Own Words
Temporary exhibition, Dec. 14, 2007–March 8, 2009. 700 sq. ft. Sady Sullivan, oral history program coordinator; Kate Fermoile, vice president for exhibits and education; Andrea Del Valle, director of education; Amy DeSalvo, education coordinator; Alison Cornyn, founder and director of Picture Projects; Philip F. Napoli, co-curator. The Brooklyn Historical Society is nestled in Cosby Show brownstone Brooklyn, in a landmarked redbrick, 1881 Queen A…
Horizontalism
Squatters make history in New York
As illegal squatters became cooperative homeowners on New York City's Lower East Side, they strategically used the logic and law of property to turn their homes into commodities. But they did so within limits: individuals can sell their apartments at fixed prices yet also collectively maintain the buildings as low-income housing, valuing their homes as both a source of individual sustenance and an inalienable resource that ties generations togeth…
Squatting History
This article analyzes the historical practices of one intergenerational activist community—squatters in New York City—to ground an ethnographic exploration of how oral history works as an affective social practice and a means for harnessing the authority of history. By comparing three case studies of oral history telling, the research presents instances in which history has been consciously used to try to pass on activist knowledge to a new gener…
Using Covid-19 Oral History Archives to Support Equitable and Creative Solutions to Contemporary Public Health Challenges
The COVID-19 pandemic sparked what may be the largest number of oral history projects addressing a single public health issue. These collections range from brief informal efforts like those created in classrooms across the country to rigorous and formal projects led by institutions and those with expertise in oral history and archiving. The contribution of this article to existing methodological knowledge is that it brings an underutilized form o…
A Shared Authority
This article is related to:A Shared Authority: Essays on the Craft and Meaning of Oral and Public History. By Michael FrischA Shared Authority: Essays on the Craft and Meaning of Oral and Public History. By Michael FrischA Shared Authority: Essays on the Craft and Meaning of Oral and Public History. By Michael FrischA Shared Authority: Essays on the Craft and Meaning of Oral and Public History. By Michael Frisch
Horizontalism
In Our Own Words
Temporary exhibition, Dec. 14, 2007–March 8, 2009. 700 sq. ft. Sady Sullivan, oral history program coordinator; Kate Fermoile, vice president for exhibits and education; Andrea Del Valle, director of education; Amy DeSalvo, education coordinator; Alison Cornyn, founder and director of Picture Projects; Philip F. Napoli, co-curator. The Brooklyn Historical Society is nestled in Cosby Show brownstone Brooklyn, in a landmarked redbrick, 1881 Queen A…
Soviet Communal Living
In Soviet Communal Living, journalist Paola Messana aims to give the Western reader an insider’s view of life in communal apartments both under communism and today. A foreword from Studies in Oral ...
Squatting in Europe
Additional informationNotes on contributorsAmy Starecheski is the Associate Director of the Oral History MA Program at Columbia University, New York City
Oral History, Community and Displacement
"Oral History, Community and Displacement: Imagining Memories in Post-Apartheid South Africa." The Oral History Review, 40(2), pp. 466–469
Knowing History in Mexico
In this book, anthropologist Trevor Stack presents some of the insights gained during over twenty years of intermittent fieldwork in a small town, Tapalpa, and a neighboring village, Atacco, both a...
Squatting History
This article analyzes the historical practices of one intergenerational activist community—squatters in New York City—to ground an ethnographic exploration of how oral history works as an affective social practice and a means for harnessing the authority of history. By comparing three case studies of oral history telling, the research presents instances in which history has been consciously used to try to pass on activist knowledge to a new gener…
A Shared Authority
This article is related to:A Shared Authority: Essays on the Craft and Meaning of Oral and Public History. By Michael FrischA Shared Authority: Essays on the Craft and Meaning of Oral and Public History. By Michael FrischA Shared Authority: Essays on the Craft and Meaning of Oral and Public History. By Michael FrischA Shared Authority: Essays on the Craft and Meaning of Oral and Public History. By Michael Frisch
Migration, Squatting and Radical Autonomy
Pierpaolo Mudu and Sutapa Chattopadhyay, eds. New York, NY: Routledge, 2017. xxii and 294 pp., ack., foreword, figs., tables, index, refs $145.00 cloth (ISBN 9781138942127), $54.95 electronic (ISBN
Curated Stories
What is the relationship between oral history and storytelling? How can oral history be used to further social justice? These are two of the most urgent and difficult questions facing oral history ...
Squatters make history in New York
As illegal squatters became cooperative homeowners on New York City's Lower East Side, they strategically used the logic and law of property to turn their homes into commodities. But they did so within limits: individuals can sell their apartments at fixed prices yet also collectively maintain the buildings as low-income housing, valuing their homes as both a source of individual sustenance and an inalienable resource that ties generations togeth…
Using Covid-19 Oral History Archives to Support Equitable and Creative Solutions to Contemporary Public Health Challenges
The COVID-19 pandemic sparked what may be the largest number of oral history projects addressing a single public health issue. These collections range from brief informal efforts like those created in classrooms across the country to rigorous and formal projects led by institutions and those with expertise in oral history and archiving. The contribution of this article to existing methodological knowledge is that it brings an underutilized form o…
Hybrid Epistemology
This paper describes how sociologists and oral historians collaborated to create, register, and analyze an extensive archive of interviews with New Yorkers during the Covid-19 pandemic. The challenges of framing the project, forming a team of interviewers, recruiting participants, and conducting interviews within the demands and urgency of pandemic conditions led researchers to reexamine their respective disciplinary foundations and methodologica…
Oral History and Anthropology
Oral historians no longer can take it for granted that the seated, recorded, one-on-one life history interview is the best way to do our work. We are rewriting our origin stories, questioning who our disciplinary ancestors are, and imagining what roots we would want to draw from to build more expansive futures for our field. In this moment of expanding our methodology, the discipline of anthropology has much to offer oral historians, and vice ver…
Oral History, Memory, Narrative Analysis (10 works) · Oral history (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Law (6 works) · Anthropology (5 works) · Art (5 works) · History (5 works) · Medicine (5 works) · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies (3 works)