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Dr. Amanda Cobb-Greetham
Amanda Cobb-Greetham, Ph.D. (Chickasaw) serves the University of Okla- homa as a Professor in the Department of Native American Studies and as the Director of OU’s Native Nations Center for Research and Community En- gagement. During her tenure at OU, her efforts contributed to the elevation of Native American Studies from a program to a department and the estab- lishment of the recently endowed Native Nations Center for research and community engagement.
Cobb-Greetham’s has received significant recognition for her scholarship, winning the American Book Award for Listening to Our Grandmothers’ Stories: The Bloomfield Academy for Chickasaw Females. In addition, she is the co-editor of The National Museum of the American Indian: Critical Conversations with Amy Lonetree. She has published numerous articles in peer-reviewed journals and served as the editor of American Indian Quarterly, the foremost journal of Native American studies for nine years.
From 2007 to 2012, she served her tribe, the Chickasaw Nation, as the Administrator of the Division of History and Culture. During her tenure, she was instrumental in launching the state-of-the-art Chick- asaw Cultural Center in Sulphur, OK and directed the museums, archives, language programs, as well as the Chickasaw Press. The Chickasaw Press, the first tribal publishing house of its kind, received the Harvard Award for Excellence in Tribal Self-Governance under her guidance. In 2018, she received the Chickasaw Nation’s prestigious Dynamic Woman Award.
She serves as the Vice-Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Smithsonian National Museum of the Amer- ican Indian. Additionally, she serves on the Board of Governors for the Harvard Honoring Nations proj- ect. She is the founding President of The Auntie Project, Native Women of Service, a 501 (c) 3, nonprofit organization.