Alissa Rae Funderburk
[Uh-lee-suh rAY fUHn-duhr-buhrk]
I am a Mississippi-based Oral Historian, focused on Black storytelling, interviewing and transcription.
I am currently available for freelance projects and speaking engagements.
My Background
I’m a Black woman of American and Jamaican descent and native New Yorker recently relocated to the Jackson, MS area. I shifted the focus of my career to oral history in 2017 because I wanted to dedicate myself to the stories and agency of my people.
2017 – 2019
Columbia Life Histories Project
2018 – 2020
2019 – Present
2020 – Present
Much of my passion for oral history stems from my desire to bring agency to the voices and narratives of Black people, within and without the ivory towers of academia, with the variety of language and feeling that is the nature of the culture.
Building Your Own Oral History Transcription Style Guide
Date: Saturday, February 10, 2024 11 AM - 7 PM ET
(8 AM - 4 PM PT, 10 AM - 6 PM CT)
Format: Online [Register Here]
This workshop is limited to 30 participants.
Alissa Rae Funderburk, instructor and creator of “Talking White”: An Anti-oppression View Towards Transcribing Black Narrators (2022) returns to OHSS with a new workshop geared towards making unique transcription style guides for participants’ project needs. As always, the goal with oral history transcription is to produce a useful document that honors our narrators and the intricacies of their speech. In this all-day virtual hands-on workshop, participants will receive a step-by-step look at the Margaret Walker Center Oral History Transcription Style Guide, which was created to do just this. During the morning hours of this workshop, participants will examine the varying benefits and drawbacks of some of the oral history transcription style guides currently publicly available. In the afternoon, we’ll work together to answer some of the questions that will allow you to create a document most useful for your organization/project’s needs. Special time will be set aside for peer reviewing style guide documents in progress.
Participants of all skill levels and experiences are welcome; you do not need to have an existing style guide prepared for participation.
Also see me present at Invisible Histories Project’s 3rd Annual Queer History South Network & Conference
Friday, February 23, 2024, 3:00 Session 4 - LGBTQ Oral Histories: Why? Why not? Who should? Who shouldn’t?
