Oral histories of Monroe Price, Klaus Krippendorff, and Charlie Wright released
The Annenberg School for Communication Library Archives (ASCLA) is excited to announce the release of three multi-session oral history interviews, with Charlie Wright, Klaus Krippendorff, and Monroe Price:
History of the Field | Annenberg
The History of the Field collection includes personal papers and organizational records from Communication’s genesis in the 1940s to the present day, oral history interviews with prominent disciplinary figures, and key scholarly and reference works.
The interviews include transcripts synced to audio (Wright) and video (Krippendorff and Price):
- Charles W. Wright (1927–2017) (3 sessions)
- Klaus Krippendorff (1932–2022) (5 sessions)
- Monroe E. Price (1938–) (5 sessions)
The interviews are part of the Communication Scholars Oral History Project, an initiative of the Annenberg School for Communication Library Archives (ASCLA). The Oral History Project was launched in 2016 to record the life and intellectual histories of senior Annenberg School scholars; interviews with Oscar Gandy and Larry Gross are currently in processing.
We are thrilled to announce that the scope of the project has now widened to the international field, with the aim to document the histories of a diverse range of senior communication and media scholars from around the globe.
The Communication Scholars Oral History Project is among the growing collection of materials hosted by ASCLA on the history of the field. Among the collections:
- George Gerbner Papers (1951 – 2006)
- Elihu Katz Papers (1948 – 2014)
- International Communication Organization (ICA) Records
- Studies in Visual Communication
Among the collections in processing:
- Herbert I. Schiller Papers (1919 – 2000)
- Kurt Lang (1924 –2019) and Gladys Engel Lang (1919 –2016) Papers
We are excited, in addition, to welcome the donation of records of the Union for Democratic Communication (UDC), after a membership vote at the association’s 2023 meeting.
ASCLA also maintains collections on journalism and media. Please contact lead archivist Samantha Dodd (for general ASCLA queries) and/or subject consultant Jeff Pooley (for oral history-specific queries) with any questions.