IOHA Council

IOHA Council 2025–2028

Mark Wong
(Singapore)
President
Jakub Gałęziowski (Poland)
Vice-President
Tian Miao
(China)
Vice-President
David Beorlegui
(Spain)
Past President
Almut Leh
(Germany)
Treasurer
Ngozika Anthonia Obi-Ani
(Nigeria)
Africa Representative
Vivian Ogbonna
(Nigeria)
Africa Representative
Reem Maghribi
(Syria)
Asia Representative
Sumallya Mukhopadhyay
(India)
Asia Representative
Bea Lewkowicz
(UK)
Europe Representative
Felicitas Söhner, PD Dr. Departmen of the History, Philosophy, and Ethics of Medicine, Centre for Health and Society, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf I am a historian specialising in oral history, the social and medical history of the 19th and 20th centuries, and the history of psychiatry, neurology, and child protection. My research focuses on biographical memory, European remembrance cultures, and the history of humangenetics, using oral history to centre marginalised experiences and institutional dynamics. I completed my habilitation at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf in 2022 and have conducted research at Düsseldorf, Rostock, Cologne and Ulm (Germany). My current projects include the processing of experiences of violence in children’s convalescent homes, psychiatric care in East and West Germany, and DDR children’s home research. Since 2022, I have founded and directed the Virtual Research Workshop on Oral History (Forschungswerkstatt Oral History), which I regularly convene to foster digital and collaborative approaches in oral historical research.
Felicitas Söhner
(Germany)
Europe Representative
Doug Boyd
(USA)
North America Representative
Shirleene Robinson
(Australia)
Oceania Representative 
Ricardo Santhiago is a Professor at the Federal University of São Paulo (Unifesp) and at the Graduate Program in Cultural Studies at the University of São Paulo (USP), as well as a CNPq research fellow. He is the current President of the Brazilian Oral History Association, of which he has been a member since 2007. The author of more than twenty books and over a hundred articles and essays, he is also an editor in the fields of oral and public history, having worked with several journals and coordinated the publication of more than a hundred books. He has received awards such as the Editor of the Future Award from the Brazilian Association of Scholarly Publishing, the Oral History Article Award from the US Oral History Association, and the Book Award from the International Oral History Association. His work focuses on the intersections of memory, archives, and Brazilian popular culture.
Ricardo Santhiago
(Brazil)
South America
Representative

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