CMAS/Voces Oral History Collaborative Fellowship

The CMAS/Voces Oral History Collaborative Fellowship is intended for graduate students or faculty members at the University of Texas at Austin who wish to fast-track their oral history work on a project about the Latina/o/x experience in the U.S. The fellowship allows the Fellow to lead a team of interviewers using the Multiple Individual Interview Sessions (MIIS) methodology developed by the Voces Oral History Center to conduct up to 15 individual interviews over two days. The Fellow will help train interviewers (along with experienced Voces staff), develop a questionnaire, and conduct a minimum of three of the fifteen interviews. CMAS/Voces provides the Fellow with interview documentation, raw transcripts, and access to copies of the interviews to facilitate research. The interviews will be housed at the Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection on the UT-Austin campus, as part of the Center for Mexican American Studies (CMAS) oral history collection. Professional videographers, photographers, and photo scanners are provided to handle technical aspects while the Fellow and interviewers focus on interview contents. Past topics have included the Macondo Writers Workshop in San Antonio, the Colegio Altamirano in Hebbronville, TX, and San Rafael church in Concho, AZ. The Fellowship provides an honorarium of $2,500 upon successful completion, which includes training interviewers, planning and coordinating work, conducting interviews, and submitting a journal article to the US Latina & Latino Oral History Journal within 9 months of the interviews. The Fellow must be available for the project over spring/summer 2026, including the first week of June 2026 for a weeklong Voces Oral History Summer Institute in Austin.