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The Oklahoma Center for the Humanities is now accepting applications for our 2025-26 Fellowship, focusing on the theme of MYTH.

Students can apply by clicking on this link.

Members of the public can apply by clicking on this link.

Applications are due April 30, 2025.

  • 2024-25 Space Fellows

    Miriam Belmaker, Associate Professor of Anthropology

    Alican Çamcı, J. Donald Feagin Assistant Professor of Music and Film Studies 

    Cyrus Carter, political science and economics undergraduate

    Shane Hood, Designer

    Marcus Martinez, history undergraduate with a double minor in education and historical trauma.

    Jason Rafferty, Applied Assistant Professor of 2D Visual Art 

    Brad Rose, multidisciplinary artist using sound, listening, visual design, and writing and Tulsa Artist Fellow

    Cheyenne Smith, Creative Community Manager at the Tulsa Artist Fellowship and founder of Space For Us

    Learn more about the SPACE fellowship class here.

  • 2022-23 Freedom Fellows

    Kaveh Bassiri, Iranian-American writer and translator. 

    Sara Beam, Applied (teaching) Associate Professor of English and Director of the University Writing Program

    Josh Corngold, Associate Professor of Education

    Jennifer Lynn Jones, Visiting Assistant Professor of Film Studies

    Travis Lowe, Associate Professor of Sociology

    Emma Palmer, second year English MA student

    Robert Spoo, Chapman Distinguished Professor of Law and Professor of English

    Alex Thomason, third year political science and history undergraduate

    Carly Treece, artist, activist, gardener, community volunteer and mother

    Crystal J. Zanders, poet, educator, and doctoral candidate in the Joint Program in English and Education at the University of Michigan

    Learn more here.

     

  • 2021-22 Renewal and Recovery Fellows

    Kathryn Aung, Political Science, English and Philosophy undergraduate

    Elizabeth “Lizy” Bailey, English undergraduate

    Nicole Bauer, Assistant Professor of History

    Ahimsa Timoteo Bodrán, Tulsa Artist Fellow, multimedia artist, activist/organizer, critic, and educator

    Caroline Cox, Studio Art and Art History undergraduate

    Don James McLaughlin, Assistant Professor of English

    Michael Mosher, Professor of Political Science

    Jennifer Ragsdale, Associate Professor of Psychology

    Jim Watson, Philosophy and Economics undergraduate

    Learn more here.

  • 2020-21 Cou/RAGE Fellows

    Dr. Matthew Drever, Associate Professor of Anglican and Ecumenical Studies

    Dr. Zenia Kish, Assistant Professor of Media Studies

    Learn more here

  • 2019-20 Play Fellows

    Bisher Akel, Biology and Psychology undergraduate

    Mark Brewin, Associate Professor of Media Studies

    David Chandler, Professor of English at Tulsa Community College and published digital game writer

    Helen Douglass, Assistant Professor of Education

    Lars Engle, Chairperson and Chapman Professor of English Language and Literature

    Edgar Fabián Frías, TAF Fellow and artist, curator, educator, and psychotherapist

    Katie Moulton, TAF Fellow and writer, editor and music critic.

    Piper Prolago, Art History undergraduate

    Akram Taghavi-Burris, Instructor in Computer Science.

  • 2018-19 Memory Fellows

    Liz Blood, a freelance journalist, editor of Ekphrasis, a poetry and art column at Art Focus Oklahoma, and contributing editor at Awst Press

    Lydia Cheshewalla, an Osage artist and founder of Holy Mother art collective

    Mark de Silva, author of the novel Square Wave (Two Dollar Radio, 2016) as well as current TAF Fellow

    Jeffrey Drouin, Associate Professor of English

    Jacob Howland, McFarlin Professor of Philosophy

    Destiny Hrncir, English literature master’s student.

    Jennie Ikuta, Assistant Professor of Political Science

    Layla Mortadha, political science and French language undergraduate

    Elana Newman, McFarlin Professor of Psychology

  • 2017-18 Homelands Fellows

    Danielle Carlotti-Smith, a writer and scholar who focuses on French and Francophone literature

    Bryan Corbaz, political science undergraduate

    Kristi Eaton, an independent journalist and author of The Main Streets of Oklahoma (2014)

    Lara Foley, Assistant Provost for Global Education and Director of Global Scholars

    Seungho Lee, Ph.D. candidate, English

    Elizabeth McCormick, Associate Clinical Professor and Associate Dean for Experiential Learning at the TU College of Law

    James Brandon McGirk, author of A Grand Theory of Everything (2015) and American Outlaws (2014)

    Keija Parssinen, Assistant Professor of English

    Justin Owen Rawlins, Assistant Professor of Media Studies and Film Studies

    Jeff Van Hanken, an Associate Professor of Film Studies

  • 2016-17 Food Fellows

    Lisa Cromer, Associate Professor of Psychology

    Michelle Donaldson, Executive Chef at Smoke

    Sam Halabi, Associate Professor of Law

    Sasha Martin, Tulsa author of Life from Scratch: A Memoir on Food, Family and Forgiveness

    Anh-Thuy Nguyen, Assistant Professor of Fine Art at Rogers State University

    Molly Noah, museum studies master’s student

    Chris Ruane, Professor Emeritus of History

    Emma Stewart, English undergraduate student

    Bruce Willis, Professor of Languages

    Jan Wilson, Associate Professor of History and Women’s and Gender Studies

    Learn more here.

  • 2015-16 Humor Fellows

     

    David Blakely, Associate Professor of Communication at Rogers State University

    Tracy Kinealy, undergraduate student

    Joli Jensen, Professor of Communications

    Holly Laird, O’Hornett Professor of English

    Maria Mauer, Associate Professor of Art History

    Machele Miller Dill, Director of the Musical Theatre Program

    Bruce Plante, Tulsa World staff editorial cartoonist

    Dayne Riley, a doctoral student in English

  • 2014-15 Privacy Fellows

    Hope Forsyth (Communications)

    Wayne Greene (Tulsa World)

    Aaron Higgins (Art)

    Bob Jackson (English)

    Ben Peters (Communication)

    Tamara Piety (Law)

    Karl Pollin-Dubois (Languages)

    Preston Smith (HP)

    Kathryn Webb-DStefano (English)

    Learn more here.