The UW-Madison Oral History Program (OHP) Minds@UW collection currently consists of oral histories from our collection, presentations recorded as part of their Wisconsin Oral History Day, and podcasts created as part of the OHP's & UW Digital Collections Center's UW-Madison Campus Voices project.

Recent Submissions

  • Oral History Interview, Merton Barry (514) 

    Barry, Merton (1997-10-29)
    In his 1997 interview, Merton Barry recounts his time as a student during the 1940s, and also his time as a professor of general engineering and director of international engineering programs spanning 1955-1988. Barry ...
  • Oral History Interview, John Thomson (134) 

    Thomson, John (1978)
    In his 1978 interview for the Arboretum History Series, John Thomson speaks about his time as a graduate student at UW, his experiences with botany faculty including Norman Fassett, and his work at the Arboretum, particularly ...
  • Oral History Interview, Jasmin Sanchez (1559) 

    Sanchez, Jasmin (2016-08-01)
    In her 2016 interview, Jasmin Sanchez recounts her time as a first generation student at UW-Madison. She speaks on how she was unsure of whether she would attend college, and the struggles she faced in acclimating to ...
  • Oral History Interview, Freida High Wasikhongo Tesfagiorgis (1398) 

    High Wasikhongo Tesfagiorgis, Freida (2014-10-29)
    In her October 2014 interview with Tom Spear, Freida High Wasikhongo Tesfagiorgis discusses her development as an artist, scholar and activist in the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Afro-American Studies department. She ...
  • Oral History Interview, Jeff and Mary Gorski (1931) 

    Gorski, Jeff; Gorski, Mary (2019-12-02)
    As part of the Class Reunion project, Avery Pilot interviewed Jeff and Mary Gorski, alumni of UW Madison (class of 1969 and class of 1972) about their experiences as students at UW Madison in a time of national disruption. ...
  • Oral History Interview, Michael Schatzberg (1364) 

    Schatzberg, Michael (2013-10-25)
    In his October 2013 interview with Tom Spear, Michael Schatzberg reflects on his graduate and professional career studying African politics from the late 1960s to 2013. He chronicled how service in the Peace Corps initially ...
  • Oral History Interview, Abigail Wolf (1552) 

    Wolf, Abigail (2015-04-27)
    In her 2015 interview, Abigail Wolf describes her time as an undergraduate at UW. She explains her decision to come to UW because of the nursing program, her introduction to the gender and women’s studies field through GWS ...
  • Oral History Interview, Desiree Bates (2313) 

    Bates, Desiree (2023-09-08)
    In her 2023 interview with Troy Reeves, Academic Staff Award Winner Desiree Bates describes her career at UW-Madison as the high performance computing chemist in the Chemistry Department. She describes some aspects of her ...
  • Oral History Interview, Stephanie Rytilahti (1545) 

    Rytilahti, Stephanie (2015-04-24)
    In her 2015 interview, Stephanie Rytilahti speaks about her experiences with Women’s Studies, both as an undergraduate and graduate student. She talks about a class she took in which the students analyzed gender bias in ...
  • Oral History Interview, Ian Duncan (1610) 

    Duncan, Ian (2017-05-17)
    In his 2017 interview with Bernard Easterday, Dr. Ian Duncan describes his time as a researcher and professor of neurology in the UW Veterinary Medicine department. He recounts his veterinary education in Glasgow, which ...
  • Oral History Interview, Laura Haefs (2283) 

    Haefs, Laura (2023-06-14)
    In her 2023 interview with ecological restoration expert Bill Jordan, Laura Haefs details her experiences working for the fledgling Society for Ecological Restoration in the 1990s, housed in UW’s own Arboretum. She describes ...
  • Oral History Interview, Jim Foseid (2234) 

    Foseid, Jim (2022-11-01)
    In his November 2022 interview, UW alum and veteran Jim Foseid speaks about his time as a soldier in Vietnam in the late 60s and early 70s. Not shying away from details, Foseid recounts multiple near-death experiences and ...
  • Oral History Interview, Jane Hutchison (745) 

    Hutchison, Jane (2006)
    In her 2006 interviews with Bob Lange, Jane Hutchison shares her memories of growing up, cultivating her interest in the history of art, coming to the University of Wisconsin, and her over 4 decades of service to the ...
  • Oral History Interview, Karen Singer (1946) 

    Singer, Karen (2020-01)
    Karen Singer (KS) was interviewed over the phone by Noah Raimy in January 2020. KS speaks on her experiences with Vietnam War protests from the perspective as a Madison local, a daughter of a professor at the University ...
  • Oral History Interview, Sherrie Tucker (1686) 

    Tucker, Sherrie (2017-07-28)
    In Susan Cook’s interview with Sherrie Tucker, Sherrie discusses her academic career in ethnomusicology. Sherrie spoke of the time period of the 1980s through 2017 and on the following topics: ethnomusicology; women in ...
  • Oral History Interview, Darrell Bazzell (1059) 

    Bazzell, Darrell (2009)
    In his three 2009-2010 interviews with Robert Lange, Darrell Bazzell detailed his path to his position as Vice-Chancellor for Administration. This interview covered the following topics: UW-Madison, Wisconsin State Government, ...
  • Oral History Interview, Charles Lobeck (638) 

    Lobeck, Charles (2003-08-14)
    In this 2003 interview, Dr. Charles Lobeck details his life, education, and career at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Taking place between the 1940s and the present day 2003, Dr. Charles Lobeck discusses the topics ...
  • Oral History Interview, Ethan "Dolf" Pfefferkorn (2329) 

    Pfefferkorn, Ethan "Dolf" (2022-04-08)
    During this interview conducted in 2022, Dr. Pfefferkorn discussed his time at UW-Madison Medical School and Chicago Medical Center’s maternity ward. He spoke of his time in the Madison program in the 1950s and described ...
  • Oral History Interview, Ted Fox and John McKenna (2328) 

    Fox, Ted; McKenna, John (2020-06-12)
    During this 2020 interview, Dr. Ted Fox and Dr. John McKenna described their time in clinical rotation at the Chicago Medical Center as part of the UW-Madison Medical School program. Taking place in the 1950s, Dr. Fox and ...
  • Oral History Interview, Jeremi Suri (1033) 

    Suri, Jeremi (2009-02)
    In his six February-May 2009 interviews with Bob Lange, Jeremi Suri discusses his education and his work at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Suri related details of his upbringing in New York City, reasons for his ...

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