Mary Larson

Mary A. Larson is the Associate Dean of Special Collections and the Puterbaugh Professor of Library Service at the Oklahoma State University Library, and she came to OSU after working in oral history at the University of Alaska Fairbanks and the University of Nevada. She has served a two-year term as President of the Oral History Association (2011-2013), an earlier term as a member of Council for OHA, and two three-year terms on the board of the Southwest Oral History Association. She has also chaired numerous committees for both organizations. Dr. Larson was the media review editor for The Oral History Review for five years, and she served as an editor for the H-Oralhist listserv from 2000-2013. Her areas of interest include oral history, digital humanities, the intersections of anthropology and history, issues of shared authority, ethics and technology, and rural women's history. Among her oral history publications are Oral History and Digital Humanities (2014, co-edited with Doug Boyd), a methodological chapter in the Handbook of Oral History, and two other books, Famiglia e Cucina: Stories and Recipes from Northwestern Nevada's Italian-American Community (2007) and We Were All Athletes: Women's Athletics at the University of Nevada (2011, co-edited with Allison Tracy and A. Barber).