John Robert Lewis Fellow
Cohort 1
(2021 - 2022)
Undergraduate Institution: St. Gregorys University
Graduate Institution: University of Central Oklahoma (Masters) & Oklahoma State University (PhD)
Occupation: Assistant Professor, Oklahoma Oral History Research Program
Career Goals/Interests: -
Current Region: Stillwater, OK
JRL Program Bio: Autumn Brown is a doctoral candidate at Oklahoma State University in the university’s Social Foundations of Education Department. She will graduate with her Ph.D. in May 2022. Autumn is also a faculty member in the Edmon Low Library with the Oklahoma Oral History Research Program (OOHRP) as a professional researcher. Autumn has published book chapters on Black women and sexuality, racial dimensions of life writing, and the history of all-Black schools in Oklahoma City, and journal articles on the policing of the Black woman body and the 2018 Oklahoma City teacher walkout. Autumn is also a content development research consultant for the Gilcrease Museum in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and a member of Tri-City collective.
Oral History Project: Oklahoma City’s Civil Rights Movement: Thirteen Sodas That Sparked a National Movement
