American studies

Oklahoma State University-Tulsa will host a live Q&A session with a panel of industry representatives in local pop culture, film, government, history and communication careers on July 19, 2022 at 6 p.m. with the goal of exhibiting the educational routes Tulsans can take to find careers in culture-centered fields.

Shannon White credits much of her career success to her 2016 American Studies degree from Oklahoma State. She has been the program manager for Tulsa’s Riverfront Park, Gathering Place, since March 2017.  

As Tulsa approaches 100 years since one of the worst incidents of racial violence in the nation’s history, the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, a growing wave of coverage and conversations about the once-hushed event has hit journalism and popular culture.