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Mary Marshall Clark

Director
Oral History Research Office, Columbia University

Mary Marshall Clark is the Director of the Columbia University Oral History Research Office. The Office, founded by Pulitzer Prize winning historian Allan Nevins in 1948, is the first university-based organized oral history program and archive in the world. The Oral History Research Office is a leading program for teaching oral history method and theory in the United States and an international center for research and scholarship in the field of oral history. Clark teaches a graduate course on the history, methodology and applications of oral history at Columbia, and directs the annual Columbia University Summer Institute on Oral History, an international seminar. She is a distinguished lecturer for the Organization of American Historians. Clark is past president of the United States Oral History Association, and has served on the Executive Council of the International Oral History Association. With Peter Bearman, the sociologist, she founded “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 eye-witnesses and immigrants and others who suffered in the aftermath of the events. A descriptive essay by Clark on the September 11, 2001 oral history project is published in History and September 11th, published by Temple University Press. Prior to her career at Columbia University, Clark was an oral historian at the New York Times and worked in documentary film. Clark holds two masters degrees from Union Theological Seminary.

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