Scope and Contents Approximately 13 linear feet consisting predominantly of ethnographic interviews, fieldwork, and reports produced for folklore courses taught by Carl Lindahl and Susan Stahl for the UH English Department from the 1970s through 2010s. A sample of student work of the department’s first folklorist can be found in the John Q. Anderson Papers. The UH Folklore Archives documents the diverse cultures of Houston as documented primarily by UH students. The Folklore Archives also contains research...

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Shari L. Smothers, formerly an SKR interviewer, and SKR archivist at the time of the interview, describing her experiences as an interviewer of fellow survivors of Hurricane Katrina.

Scope and Contents This collection contains approximately 6 linear feet of analog/paper archival records, over 400 digital interview files, and 242 digital transcripts related to the Surviving Katrina and Rita in Houston project. Founded by UH Professor Carl Lindahl in 2005, Surviving Katrina and Rita is the world's first project in which disaster survivors have taken the lead in documenting fellow survivors' experience of disaster. The project received worldwide recognition for its role in helping survivors...

Summary Angela Trahan, age 27, is a Katrina survivor from Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. She begins by talking about her childhood and the good qualities of the town where she was raising her kids. The day before the storm Bay St. Louis became a ghost town, because a lot of people evacuated and a lot of stores sold out of merchandise. Angela described their preparation for the storm at St. Stanislaus’s Catholic boarding school, where her mother was scheduled to work to feed international students who...

Scope and Contents From the Series: The current online list is only a small sample of the complete inventory. Additional inventory work is underway. For questions, please contact archivist Christian Kelleher at cdkelleh@central.uh.edu.Oral history interviews describe the experiences and reflections of survivors displaced to Houston by hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005. Interview summaries/logs are available for research use, and interview recordings may be accessed on-site in the University of Houston Libraries...