Dr Mori Reithmayr
Oxford Health Histories
Oxford Health Histories is a public history project of the Oxford University Community History Hub. It produces and shares educational resources related to the diverse histories of health and medicine that can be found in the city of Oxford.
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As research assistant, I further expanded our public history materials. I researched and wrote a webpage on the historical intersections of mental health research and queer oppression at Oxford University. I also revised and strengthened our other mental health-related pages. The quality of my work led to me being included in the Hub's £3,000,000 AHRC funding bid. ​
Talks, workshops, and outreach classes
I'm an engaging communicator of research findings and skills to academic and community audiences.
I have...
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presented my research at over fifteen leading academic conferences and seminars in both the UK and the US
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given commissioned LGBT history talks to lay audiences for institutions like the GLBT Historical Society
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taught LGBT-themed outreach classes at Oxford colleges
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delivered research skills workshops to student groups
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I also work as a tour guide for Experience Oxfordshire.
Historical Perspectives on Gendered State Violence in the United States
​Historical Perspectives on Gendered State Violence in the United States is a public history initiative founded in 2021 by Liz Barnes, Lizzie Evens, and Grace Watkins. It seeks to enrich our understanding of US state violence through an event series and a website that shares the research of junior scholars.
For this project, I was commissioned to write a blog post on the heterogenous nature of antigay police harassment in the mid-twentieth century United States. In it, I argued that the fervour, frequency, and form of state harassment often depended on the victims’ social position: factors such as their race, class, gender, and gender performance.​​​​​​​
GEDENKDIENST
GEDENKDIENST is an independent Austrian organisation that offers extensive public history programs on the causes and consequences of Nazi rule and its crimes.
In 2014-15, I served as the GEDENKDIENST intern in the Division of the Senior Historian at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. I gave tours through the USHMM exhibits, maintained relationships with the local Austrian Holocaust survivor community, and chiefly, provided research support for the Senior Historian's public engagement work. My largest project came as the principal research assistant for the museum's internal report on the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide.
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​After my internship, I joined GEDENKDIENST's eponymous newspaper as an editor and writer. The newspaper shared new research findings related to Nazism, the Holocaust, its memory and commemoration. Until 2021, GEDENKDIENST appeared quarterly at a circulation of 3,000 - 5,000 copies.​​​​​
Photo credit: Raymund Flandez
Leading a public tour through the USHMM's special exhibit, Some Were Neighbors: Collaboration & Complicity in the Holocaust.