Brown, Autumn

Autumn B. Brown earned her Ph.D. in Social Foundations of Education from Oklahoma State University where she is an Assistant Professor in the Edmon Low Library with the Oklahoma Oral History Research Program. Her dissertation was an educational biography of teacher activist Clara Luper (1923-2011) and Luper’s work with Oklahoma City’s NAACP Youth Council leading one of our nation’s first sit-in movements. Autumn has published book chapters on Black women and sexuality, racial dimensions of life writing, and the history of all-Black schools in Oklahoma City, and journal articles on the policing of the Black woman body and the 2018 Oklahoma City teacher walkout. Autumn served as IMLS Research Scholar on the Eddie Faye Gates Tulsa Race Massacre Collection at Gilcrease Museum from 2021-2022. She was also the 2022-2023 Duane H. King Postdoctoral Fellow at the Helmerich Center for American Research at Gilcrease Museum/University of Tulsa. Dr. Brown was part of the inaugural cohort of John Robert Lewis Fellows and Scholars with the Faith & Politics Institute in Washington, D.C., participated in the 2023 Columbia University Oral History Summer Program, and the 2024 NEH Summer Institute Content Warning: Engaging Trauma and Controversy in Research Collections at Indiana University-Bloomington. Autumn runs her own research consulting business named Winona Jewel Research Consulting, LLC, serves on the Board of Directors for BLAC, inc. (Black Liberated Arts Center) and the African American Folklorist Magazine, and works with the Freedom Center Community Archive in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.