Russell Cobb

Labor Omnia Vincit
I'm from the erstwhile Oil Capital of the World, Tulsa. "Tell no lies, and claim no easy victories"

About

Russell Cobb

Mid-range drop step.

Russell Cobb is a writer and academic, originally from Tulsa, Muscogee (Creek) Nation / Oklahoma. He is Associate Professor in Modern Languages and Cultural Studies at the University of Alberta. His journalistic work has appeared in The New York Times, Slate, NPR, and The Nation. He is a contributing editor and frequent contributor to This Land Press. His scholarly work has examined the cultural Cold War in Latin America and contemporary cultural politics in the region.

His books include The Great Oklahoma Swindle: Race, Religion, and Lies in America's Weirdest State (2020), as well as the eBook single Heart in Darkness (2013) and the edited collection The Paradox of Authenticity in a Globalized World (2014).