On Monday 27 January 2025 Evan McCormick (Columbia University) will be the fifth speaker for our 2024-2025 Seminar Series on Modern North American History, organized in cooperation with the Sciences Po Center for History (CHSP) in Paris.
Lecture title: Remembering a Presidency: The Obama Presidency Oral History Project
Lecturer: Evan D. McCormick
Date: Monday 27 January 2025 from 17:00 to 18:30 CET
Location: Online
Please register here before Friday 24 January.
Evan McCormick is Associate Research Scholar and Director of Research at Incite Institute at Columbia University. As a historian of the United States and the World, Evan directed the study of the the Obama presidency in a global context for the Obama Presidency Oral History project and now leads several projects on the relationship between states and movements. His scholarship has appeared in Diplomatic History and the Journal of Cold War Studies. He received his PhD in History from the University of Virginia (2015) and an MA in International Relations from Yale University (2007). He has held postdoctoral fellowships from the Center for Presidential History at Southern Methodist University and the Clements Center for National Security at the University of Texas at Austin. Prior to pursuing his PhD, Evan served as a policy fellow in the Department of Homeland Security (2007-2009).
Between 2019 and 2024, Incite Institute at Columbia University completed the Obama Presidency Oral History project, the official oral history of the Obama Presidency and its times. Taking a novel approach to presidential oral history, the more than 450 interviews recorded for the project include the testimonies of key decisionmakers alongside those of people outside the Oval Office—civil society leaders, legislators, farmers, educators, and people from all walks of life. In this presentation, Evan McCormick will discuss the project in the context of presidential history and share initial findings from the two preview releases of material now available on the project website: 47 interviews that deal with Obama’s climate and environmental policies, and healthcare reform centered on the 2010 Affordable Care Act.
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