Russell Cobb
As seen in:
Medium,
The New York Times,
The Guardian,
The Conversation,
Salon,
RawStory,
AlterNet,
Tulsa World,
Publishers Weekly,
This American Life
and
Covers:
Oklahoma. Race, Religion, the Transnational South, Cuba
Doesn't Cover:
Celebrities, pop culture
Dumb Okie, PhD. "Discover the truth and publish it." -- Angie Debo. Professor, Arts @UAlberta.
Russell Cobb’s Biography
Russell Cobb is Associate Professor at the University of Alberta in Modern Languages and
Cultural Studies and Creative Writing. His work bridges the worlds of creative nonfiction and
traditional cultural histories of the Greater Caribbean, including the American South. He is the
author of The Great Oklahoma Swindle: Race, Religion, and Lies in America’s Weirdest State
(University of Nebraska, 2020), and the editor of The Paradox of Authenticity in a Globalized
World (Macmillan, 2014). His journalism has appeared in New York Times, The Guardian, This
American Life, and elsewhere.