Pearson-Little Thunder, Julie

Dr. Julie Pearson-Little Thunder is a Visiting Assistant Professor with the OOHRP. She is the lead researcher for the Oklahoma Native Artist Project and the Chilocco History Project, which won the 2019 Elizabeth B. Mason Project Award from the Oral History Association. In 2020, she was awarded an Archie Green Fellowship through the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress supporting a documentation project focused on Immigrant Women Artists in Oklahoma. Pearson-Little Thunder has a Ph.D. from the University of Kansas in Theater, and has written four plays based on various OOHRP collections: The Circus Show, Can’t Turn Me Around, Women of True Grit, and Centenarians . She is the author of numerous articles about Native theater and the Native arts, and A Life Made With Artists: Doris Littrell and the Oklahoma Indian Art Scene (2016, RoadRunner Press).