With profound thanks to Keo Somaly for her service as the COHP Cambodia coordinator, we are pleased to introduce Vanna Roth as the new coordinator. She has been a peer leader for some time and we welcome her now in this new role. “Hi! I …
As with the rest of the world, our project has been dealing with the effects of COVID-19. Our Winter Semester intern returned early amid concerns of the pandemic, and the collection of interviews ground to a near standstill. Accordingly, our Cambodia team shifted focus to …
It has been over three years since we launched the Cambodian Oral History Project. Its progress has been both rapid and somewhat surprising. We are pleased to announce that the project has recently surpassed 4000 interviews. In addition to the interview milestone, we have processed …
Interns Our current intern, Wesley Crump, is returning to the U.S. and to his studies at Brigham Young University. During his tenure there the project collected around 100 interviews, toward the current number of 314. We are grateful for his hard work in Cambodia …
Keo Somaly* BYU Cambodia Oral Family Histories Project has made me realize that Cambodia has some great and sad histories. As Cambodian, I have been learning about Cambodia history through my work on the project. There are three important stories which I would like to …
One of the main aims of this project is to preserve stories that might otherwise disapear. Since the project was launched in January 2017, we have sadly lost several participants. Yet, the families’ grief has been softened some by the preservation of the family members’ memories–––especially their …
This is Theary Leng! She is from Kampong Cham, Cambodia. She served an LDS mission in the Hawaii Honolulu Mission and will be studying Master of Public Administration at Brigham Young University in the Fall. She has been working for several months as the project …
By Nhem Sokunthea, Cambodia Project Coordinator Read this post in Khmer My name is Nhem Sokunthea. I’ve been a project peer leader for three years. I got involved with the project right after I returned from missionary service for the Church of Jesus Christ of …
I began working with the Cambodia Oral History Project in December 2016. I started out as the Volunteer Coordinator at BYU and quickly learned the importance of the project. I beganlistening to interviews and came across a woman that I had met while I served …
