Dale Society Fellow:
Cecilia Slane’s project examines the relationships between oil extraction, geologic knowledge production, and extractive labor in 20th-century rural spaces, as well as the relationship of oil to settler colonialism and nationalism.

Jack Haley Fellows:
The aims of “Looking Home” center on understanding the ways Indigenous communities have viewed removal over time and how they have reacted to settler-colonial policies. The scope of Bryce Jones' project focuses on connections between Native communities, Ohio, and the Shawnee Nation in Oklahoma because of contemporary issues surrounding access to Indigenous earthworks in the state.

Martha Beliveau's research project considers competing memories of the Land Run of 1889 and the late nineteenth century settlement of Oklahoma. Focusing on the intersecting memories of African Americans, Euro-Americans, and Native people, this project traces how commemorations of the Land Run of 1889 changed over the course of the twentieth century. The tangible practices of memory-making and the narratives of those memories reveal mnemonic battles over the place of the Land Run of 1889 in public memory. Ultimately, these competing memories illustrate diverging notions of land, identity, and belonging.

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