NAS News
- NAS is hiring: Mellon Impact Postdoctoral Fellow, to start Fall 2023.
- OU architecture students use AI program to create Native American Studies building design proposals, referencing Dr. Laura Harjo's Book, "Spiral to the Stars".
- Dane Poolaw shares history and demonstrations of Plains Indian Sign Language and Kiowa Sign Language.
- Dr. Dustin Tahmahkera's full-length play selected for commission by the theatres that comprise the Generation Now partnership.
- Dr. Kimberly Wieser, NAS affiliate faculty, and Rance Weryackwe, NAS alum (BA 2013, MA 2018), receive $45,407.00 for their project “Continuing Comanche Culture: Culture as Making, Craft as Shared Story” from a Library of Congress–Of the People: Widening the Path: Community Collections Grant.
- Indian Country Today interviews Dr. Farina King about her latest book, Returning Home.
- Dr. Amanda Cobb-Greetham appointed to the Organization of American Historians Distinguished Lecturship Program.
- Dr. Dustin Tahmahkera featured in World Literature Today, honoring his late Auntie Juanita Pahdopony and recognizing their work together on the new Hulu movie Prey.
- Dr. Farina King's Latest Book Finalist for Best Book in Utah History Award
- NAS students, faculty and affiliate faculty recognized by the Dodge Family College of Arts & Sciences.
- Congratulations to our 2021-2022 graduates!
- NAS is hiring! We have an opening for one of two Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow positions.
- Congratulations to our Fall 2021 Honor Roll recipients.
- Kamryn Yanchick, NAS senior, honored as Outstanding Senior
- Dillon Vaughn, NAS language instructor, was featured in AIGC's Fall 2021 American Indian Graduates magazine article, "Preserving the Language, Preserving the Culture".
- Amanda Cobb-Greetham releases Op-Ed reflecting on Oklahoma Statehood Day. The piece is part of a larger book project titled, "Bright, Golden Haze: Oklahoma/Indian Identity in Myth and Memory" which will be comprised of a collection of interrelated essays interrogating Oklahoma/Indian myth and memory.
- Abel Gomez, NAS Mellon Fellow Postdoc, joins Martin Rizzo-Martinez & Daniel Stonebloom on the Challenging Colonialism podcast.
- John Truden, PhD candidate in the Department of History and NAS Graduate Research Assistant, has published an article titled The Absentee Shawnees and the True Story of Lake Thunderbird in Oklahoma Humanities Magazine.
- NAS is hiring! We are seeking applicants for two Endowed Chair faculty positions to begin in August 2022.
- Bird Runningwater strikes a first-look deal with Amazon.
- Laura Harjo wins first annual On The Brinck book award
- Marcus Macktima Receives Mellon Faculty Career Advancement Fellowship
- Mellon Foundation Gift Launches OU Fellowship Program in Native American Studies
- Dr. Amanda Cobb-Greetham Selected as Radcliffe Fellow at Harvard University
- We're Celebrating our Fall 2020 Graduates!
- Congratulations to Dr. Laura Harjo, Winner of the 2020 Beatrice Medicine Award for Best Published Monograph!
- Native American Studies and Native Nations Center receive grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
- NAS is seeking applicants for the Horizon Endowed Chair in Native American Spirituality and the Environment hiring! Please visit
https://apply.interfolio.com/82048 for more information and to apply!
- Raymond Orr Appointed NAS Department Chair
- Warren Queton Accepts New Position as Director of the Kiowa Higher Education Grant Program
- Welcome to New NAS Faculty Member - Dr. Laura Harjo!
- NAS Hosts Peer-to-Peer Project
- Sam Noble Museum of Natural History Selected for Prestigious UMAC Award
- NAS Major Awarded Cobell Scholarship
- NAS Faculty Member Stands in as Guest Faculty Coach for the OU Men's Baseball Team
- NAS Faculty Edgar Heap of Birds Exhibits Art/Serves on Panel at Art Basel Miami International Art Fair
- Chicksasaw Nation Makes Major Gift to the OU Native Nations Center
- NAS MA Student Jared Wahkinney presents Project Proposal - Negotiating in Two Worlds
