Mary Marshall Clark - Staff - Obama Presidency Oral History
Co-Principal Investigator, Director, Columbia Center for Oral History Research
Mary Marshall Clark
Co-Principal Investigator and interviewer, Director of the Columbia University Center for Oral History Research at Incite, and co-founding Director of Columbia’s Oral History Master of Arts program.
Mary Marshall Clark has been involved in the oral history movement since 1991 and was President of the United States Oral History Association from 2001 to 2002. She was the Co-Principal Investigator of The September 11, 2001 Oral History Narrative and Memory Project, a longitudinal oral history project through which over 1,000 hours of interviews were taken with eyewitnesses, immigrants, and others who suffered in the aftermath of the events. She also directed related projects on the aftermath of September 11th in New York City.
Mary Marshall has directed and co-directed projects on the Carnegie Corporation, the Human Rights Campaign, the COVID-19 pandemic, the Atlantic Philanthropies, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the Japanese Internment on the East Coast. She founded the Guantanamo Rule of Law Oral History Project in 2009, through which over 350 hours of oral history were collected with advocacy and constitutional lawyers, lawmakers, judges, representatives from the department of state, former prisoners and psychologists who protested the American Psychological Association’s involvement in torture.
Mary Marshall has conducted life history interviews with leading figures in the media, human rights, African American history, and South African history and recorded women’s achievements in journalism, politics, and the arts. Mary Marshall directs Columbia University’s biannual Summer Institute in Oral History. She writes on issues of memory, the mass media, trauma, and ethics in oral history. Mary Marshall is an editor of After the Fall: New Yorkers Remember September 11, 2001 and the Years that Followed, published by The New Press in September 2011. She is a co-author of the human rights publication Documenting and Interpreting Conflict through Oral History: A Working Guide, co-produced by Columbia University and TAARII, the American Institute for Research in Iraq. She is an editor of the Columbia University Press Oral History Series, announced in 2019.
