Mary Marshall Clark

Mary Marshall Clark is the Director of the Oral History Research Office at Columbia University, the oldest and largest university-based oral history archive and program in the world. Clark is the co-founder, with Peter Bearman, of the “September 11, 2001 Oral History Narrative and Memory Project,” a longitudinal oral history project in which life histories of over 500 people who were affected by the events and aftermath of 9/11 were conducted. Ms. Clark is also the founder of the “September 11, 2001 Telling Lives Project” in which oral history is used to strengthen families, communities, schools and immigrant neigborhoods in which economic as well as human loss and conflict were suffered in the aftermath of September 11. Clark is past president of the Oral History Association, and a Distinguished Lecturer for the Organization of American Historians. She has also worked as a filmmaker and oral historian at the New York Times.