When Zohar Freeman worked with us as an undergraduate researcher in the Jackman Humanities Institute’s Scholars-in-Residence Program, he was an undergraduate student at the University of Toronto studying mathematics and statistics. In his personal life, Zohar has been a social justice advocate and active voice in the queer community. Zohar worked on the Foolscap Oral History Project, a 1980s oral history project conducted by John Grube and Lionel Collier about gay men in Toronto before Stonewall (125 interviews). He co-created the digital exhibition Mapping Foolscap: Gay Oral Histories, 1981-1987. After completing the Scholars-in-Residence program, Zohar stayed on with the Collaboratory for two more years, working mainly on the Foolscap oral histories, all of which he digitized and wrote metadata for, so that they can be used by researchers at The ArQuives. Zohar is now in school at Harvard Law School.


