The University of Central Oklahoma’s Department of History and Geography will host the “Making Meaning in the American West” lecture series, Nov. 14 and 25, on UCO’s campus. The series will explore the experiences of women and families in the fur trade during the 19th century and the resilience of Oklahoman women during the Dust […]
The UCO College of Liberal Arts honors students for outstanding academic achievement at its 2023 student honors and award ceremony on April 19, 2024 at the College of Liberal arts building lecture hall room LAS L01. This evening’s celebration invites us to reflect on the extraordinary accomplishments of our Liberal Arts students and on the […]
The University of Central Oklahoma College of Liberal Arts has unveiled its inaugural exhibition in a newly acquired, state-of-the-art display case. Located on the first floor of the UCO Liberal Arts building, this new case will serve as a platform for exhibits based on collections housed at the UCO Laboratory of History Museum (LHM) and […]
The UCO Department of History and Geography, The Women’s Research Center and the BGLTQ+ Student Center will host “Gender and Rodeo: An Evening with Dr. Elyssa Ford” Friday, March 29. Pictured, Elyssa Ford, Ph.D., associate professor of history and director of public history and museum studies at Northwest Missouri State University.
The International Gender and Sexuality Studies Conference, hosted by the University of Central Oklahoma’s Women’s Research Center and the BGLTQ+ Student Center in collaboration with the UCO chapter of the National Organization for Women, is calling for submissions for its ninth annual conference. Themed “Recognition, Resistance, Resilience,” the conference aims to foster diverse perspectives on these […]
UCO students Emma Stewart and Alexis McKernan, and Lindsey Churchill, Ph.D., director of the UCO Women’s Research Center and the BGLTQ+ Student Center, will help digitize eight-track tapes from activist and former producer Trella Laughlin’s television program “Let the People Speak.” Laughlin interviewed individuals who have been marginalized or discriminated against because of their race, national […]
The Metropolitan Library System, in collaboration with UCO’s Department of History and Geography, will host a screening and discussion of episode three of the documentary “The U.S. and the Holocaust” from 4-7 p.m., Jan. 19, in The Bob Burke First Amendment Screening Room, Communications building, Room 120. This is part of a series of events associated […]
Earlier this summer, a group of students from the UCO women’s, gender and sexuality studies program marched in the Northwest Arkansas Pride Parade as representation for the Elder Tree Women’s Center, a lesbian-owned, women-centric event center and gathering place in Fayetteville, Ark. The students attended the pride festival as part of an oral history project, […]
The UCO College of Liberal Arts honored its exceptional students at the 2022 Honors and Awards Ceremony on April 29 at the UCO College of Liberal Arts South Wing Lecture Hall. Letter from the Interim Dean It is one of my greatest privileges as interim dean of the College of Liberal Arts to welcome […]
“This Land is Herland: Gendered Activism in Oklahoma from the 1870s to the 2010s” (University of Oklahoma Press, 2021) has been named a finalist in nonfiction in the 2022 Oklahoma Book Award competition. This volume, edited by Dr. Patti Loughlin, Professor of History and Geography, and Sarah Eppler Janda, features thirteen scholars including Dr. Lindsey […]
