17th ANNUAL
“THE PROMISE AND POLITICS OF NATIVE LAND”
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Dr. Kalenda Eaton
Professor in the Clara Luper Department of African and African American Studies; and Associate Dean of the Honors College at the University of Oklahoma, Director of Oklahoma Black Homesteader Project, Fulbright Scholar, and scholar of Black Western Studies
Thursday, May 28, 2026
Langston University Tulsa,
Jack Henderson Allied Health
914 N. Greenwood Avenue, Tulsa, OK
Dr. Kalenda Eaton is a Professor in The Clara Luper Department of African and African American Studies at the University of Oklahoma. She is a humanities scholar whose research focuses on African American western regional studies; intersections of Black literary studies and cultural history; and women’s studies. She received graduate degrees from The Ohio State University and an undergraduate degree from Dillard University.
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Dr. Eaton is the recipient of a Fulbright fellowship; an Endowed Chair in Humanities and Social Sciences; as well as awards for research, leadership, and service. She has an active research agenda, including several publications and an appointment as Director of Oklahoma Research for the Black Homesteader Project . Additionally, she has over two decades of experience in academic program management, graduate and undergraduate studies, education abroad, and digital humanities scholarship.
Courses taught: The Black West (w/HIST); Africa and the Diaspora; Black Feminism and Womanism (w/WGS); Introduction to African & African American Studies; and additional courses focused on arts & humanities.
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