Special thanks to Krystl Raven, Peter Scales, Tarisa Dawn Little, Jesse Thistle, Osgoode Society Oral History, Alexandra Giancarlo, Peter Anderson, Janis Thiessen, Shirley Tillotson, Alex Green, Andrea Blackman, Sandra (@khassl), and Terry Smyth for their recommendations and advice, and Jessica Knapp for her feedback on a draft of this blog post!
As you may remember from my interview with Katrina Srigley, Stacey Zembrzycki and Franca Iacovetta, I am an oral history devotee. I also used oral history extensively in my dissertation, thirty-five interviews in all. But as an oral historian, I have always had an uncomfortable relationship with transcripts and transcription. So today I thought I would unpack some of the existing discussion around transcription. Let’s get started!