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The Gulf Podcast uses oral histories to tell stories of people and nature on the Texas Gulf Coast in a nonfiction audio storytelling format. Think of it as StoryCorps meets The Memory Palace meets campus radio. It's a bit of history and a bit of science, featuring important people and places of the Texas Coastal Bend. New episodes come out monthly.

Subjects or Themes

Environmental History, Gulf of Mexico, History of Science

Project Language(s)

English

Time Period

Geographic Location

Project Categories

Content Type

Sound, Oral History, Text

Target Audience(s)

Creators

Dr. Jen Corrinne Brown, Associate Professor of History at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi

Year(s)

2020-2021

Host Institution / Affiliation / Project Location

Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi

Software Employed

  • Omeka
  • Adobe Audition; Notepad++

Labor and Support

Dr. Jen Brown conducts oral histories and serves as the writer, producer, and narrator. She also maintains the website and writes the XML for the RSS feed. Student assistant Maxwell McClure serves as oral history transcriber, social media manager, and production assistant. He has also conducted his own oral histories as well as written, produced, and narrated guest episodes.

Partnerships, funding sources, or grant-funding acknowledgement

The Gulf Podcast is funded by the Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi.