Amanda Cobb-Greetham

Amanda Cobb-Greetham, Ph.D. (Chickasaw) has received a Guggenheim Fellowship (2023) and Harvard Radcliffe Fellowship (2021-2022) for her current research Bright, Golden Haze: Oklahoma/Indian Identity in Myth and Memory, which places Oklahoma history and mythology and the contested cultural erasure of Native Americans at the center of the American story. Cobb-Greetham has received significant recognition for her previous 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, a leading journal of Native American studies, for nine years.

Cobb-Greetham served the University of Oklahoma as a Professor in the Department of Native American Studies. From 2014-2019, she served as the chair of the department. At OU, her leadership as chair contributed to the elevation of Native American Studies from a program to a department and the founding of the recently endowed Native Nations Center for Research and Community Engagement, which she directed. For her efforts, she received the OU Regents Award for Superior University Service (2023).

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 Chickasaw 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.

Cobb-Greetham served on the Board of Trustees of the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian for six years and held the position of Vice Chair for a two-year term. She serves on the Board of Governors for Honoring Nations, an initiative of the Project on Indigenous Governance and Development. She has contributed to the development of the First American Museum in Oklahoma City as a designated Knowledge Giver. She is the founding President of The Auntie Project, Native Women of Service, a 501 (c) 3, nonprofit organization dedicated to helping Native American and Indigenous children in need.