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2024 Eva Tulene Watt Scholarship for Native American Scholars

Deadline for Applications: March 13, 2024

Award Notification: March 30, 2024

Eva Tulene Watt was a distinguished White Mountain Apache elder, author, and oral historian whose narration of her family and tribal customs has assisted in the preservation of White Mountain Apache tribal culture (Don’t Let the Sun Step Over You: A White Mountain Apache Family Life, 1860-1975, with Keith Basso, University of Arizona, 2004).

In her honor, the Eva Tulene Watt scholarship will be awarded to a Native American practitioner of oral history to attend the annual conference in Riverside, California, May 31 – June 3, 2024. Funding for the scholarship will include a cash award of $600 for use toward hotel, travel, and food expenses incurred while attending the conference. In addition, SOHA will provide conference registration, and a one-year membership to SOHA. 

Native American students, teachers, independent oral historians, librarians, museum curators, and individuals associated with nonprofit organizations are encouraged to apply. Recipients are not eligible for the Eva Tulene Watt scholarship two years in a row.

The application letter (300-word limit) must include the following items: 

                 • Contact information for the applicant, including tribal affiliation

                 • A short biographical statement, including a brief description of any             

                   current or prior oral history work

                 • A brief explanation of how the scholarship will advance the 

                   applicant’s goals in the field of oral history   

                 • Names and phone numbers of two references                             

Following the conference, the recipient will write a brief report highlighting their conference experience, focusing on one or two presentations attended, for publication in the SOHA newsletter.

Applicant should send scholarship submission as a WORD document via 

e-mail to:

Midge Dellinger, Chair, Eva Tulene Watt Scholarship ddellinger@muscogeenation.com. 918-732-7618

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2024 GENERAL SCHOLARSHIP

Deadline:   March 13, 2024

The Southwest Oral History Association will award two or three scholarships to deserving oral historians and practitioners to attend the annual conference which will be held in Riverside, California from May 31-June 2, 2024. Funding will include a cash award of $400 for each recipient, $100 of which will be disbursed prior to the conference, with the balance issued on the final day of the conference.  These awards will be applied toward hotel and travel expenses.  Free conference registration is included in the scholarship.  Additionally, a SOHA member point of contact/mentor for the conference will be provided upon request.  Students, teachers, independent oral historians, community oral historians and individuals associated with nonprofit organizations are encouraged to apply.

PLEASE SUBMIT THE FOLLOWING AS ATTACHMENTS (Word or PDF) VIA 

E-MAIL using the prescribed file naming convention:  

1. Cover Letter:  Submit a cover letter including name, address, telephone number and e-mail of applicant.  The letter should include a statement of the applicant’s financial need; an indication of the level of financial support, if any, that is offered by the applicant’s institution or employer; and a paragraph explaining how the scholarship will advance the applicant’s goals in the field of oral history.  
2. Applicant Resume: A resume of not more than one page, including names and phone numbers of two professional or academic references.  

The recipient will be expected to attend the entire conference and write a brief article highlighting conference experiences for possible publication in the SOHA newsletter.   

THE SAME RECIPIENTS OF AWARDS WILL NOT BE AWARDED TWO 

YEARS IN A ROW 

PLEASE SUBMIT THE APPLICATION TO THE COMMIT:TEE

sarahemoorhead@fastmail.fm, florenciaruizmendoza@gmail.com, arlenecano@ucr.edu, with a copy to SOHA@unlv.edu

Questions to Sarah Moorhead

480-962-6227 landline and messages

480-229-1335 Texts

Committee will send an e-mail confirmation upon receipt of application, so the applicant knows it was received.  Notification of the decision will be made by March 30, 2024. 

Committee members are Sarah Moorhead,  Forencia Ruiz Mendoza, Arlene Cano Matute

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2024 Mini Grant opportunity

Deadline: March 13, 2024

The Southwest Oral History Association will award up to three mini-grants with a total for all at $1500.  Funds may be used for interviewing, equipment, transcription, editing, publishing, and other oral history related expenses.  Students, teachers, and independent researchers, historical societies, archives, museums, and non-profits are encouraged to apply to conduct research on the Southwest.  There is no application form.  PLEASE SUBMIT THE FOLLOWING AS WORD ATTACHMENTS AND SEND VIA E-MAIL: 

A Cover Letter:  Submit a one-page cover letter including name, address, telephone number and e-mail of applicant.  If an organization is applying, include the same as above.  Include brief background history on applicant (not more than one page). 

1. Concise description of Oral History Project:  Include the title of the project, background on development, need for topic, planned number of interviews, expected length and depth, oral historians’ names and oral history experience, archiving plans, possible presentation plans, and project timetable.  Maximum of two double-spaced pages.
2. A Budget for the project:  Include amount requested and other sources of funding.
3. One letter of recommendation.

THE SAME RECIPIENTS OF AWARDS WILL NOT BE AWARDED TWO YEARS IN A ROW

SUBMIT MINI-GRANT REQUESTS AS WORD ATTACHMENT VIA E-MAIL TO:  

sarahemoorhead@fastmail.fm, fhowar4@uic.edu

with subject line of SOHA Mini-Grant Application

With a copy to SOHA@unlv.edu

For questions, call or e-mail 

Sarah Moorhead

480-962-6227 landline and messages

480-229-1335 texts

Committee will send a return receipt via e-mail so applicants will know that the application has been received. Committee Members:  Chair Sarah Moorhead,  Franklin Howard

Decision will be sent via email by March 30, 2024

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Wonderful news! We have decided to extend our call for proposals deadline to Friday, 2/2/2024. Please refer to the updated PDF below for more information.

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University of California, Riverside

Our SOHA Fall 2022 Newsletter is now available with special announcements and features about participating SOHA members at the upcoming Oral History Association conference in Los Angeles and more!

We also welcome our new SOHA graduate assistant Connor Young.

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Thank you for reading and your continued support of SOHA. Be sure to share our newsletter today!

SOHA members and friends are invited to join our summer lightning bootcamp participants for our virtual social mixer on Friday, July 15 from 1 pm to 2 pm PT.

Please register for the social mixer to receive the Zoom meeting link via email if you are not a participant in the summer bootcamp at https://bit.ly/SOHA2022Mixer. Participants of the summer bootcamp will receive the social mixer link with their other bootcamp details by email.

As part of the summer lightning bootcamp, there will also be a special meeting time for students. If you are a student and not a registrant of the summer bootcamp but want to attend this student meeting, please email us at soha@unlv.edu to let us know that you need the Zoom meeting link.

We look forward to next week’s summer bootcamp and these fun events. We hope to see you via Zoom then!

You can contact Juan Coronado for more details about the bootcamp (jdcoronado@ccsu.edu).

Stay cool and safe in the summer heat!