Tuesday, July 15, 2025
10 a.m. Pacific/11 a.m. Mountain/12 p.m. Central/1 p.m. Eastern
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Join in this interactive workshop and discussion that will offer information about and reflections on methodological and ethical approaches to undertaking queer and religious oral history research.
Topics will include:
- an overview of queer oral history theory and methods;
- thinking through the particularities of LGBTQIA oral histories and oral histories of religious subjects;
- specific information about best practices for interviewing religious and LGBTQIA narrators;
- reviewing different technologies/modalities for recording oral histories;
- learning how to ask strong initial and follow up questions; and
- discussion time to discuss ethnical and other concerns you may be thinking about.
Gillian Frank, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of History at Trinity College Dublin and the Director of the Center for Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Trinity College Dublin. He is the author of numerous academic articles on the histories of sexuality, gender and religion (which have appeared in venues like the Journal of the History of Sexuality, American Jewish History, and Gender and History) and public facing scholarship (with bylines in publications including the Washington Post, Time, Jezebel and Slate). Through his column at the Revealer, "More Than Missionary," Frank regularly writes about the intertwined histories of religion and sexuality. Frank's oral history work can be heard on his podcast Sexing History, which explores how the history of sexuality shapes our present, and Red State Religions, which explores the persistence of liberal people of faith in conservative spaces.