Russell Cobb, a 4th-generation white Oklahoman, is professor in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Alberta and the author of
The Great Oklahoma Swindle, which won the 2021 Director’s Award in the Oklahoma Book Awards. His journalism has appeared in the
New York Times,
The Guardian,
Slate,
The Nation, and on NPR. He is also the author of
Ghosts of Crook County.