2026 Theses Master's

Memory Work and Shifting Lens: What Remembering Makes New

Green Waszak, Tejan

This thesis employs oral history methods to document the educational journey of the interviewer’s mother, contributing to a broader effort to recover and center often unrecorded stories of women’s lives before motherhood. The narratives capture the narrator’s experience in Jamaica before and after the country’s independence from the United Kingdom in 1962. The thesis documents the narrator's perspective navigating a period of significant social, political, and educational transformation in Jamaica.