New York University has recently appointed Lindsey Claire Smith as the inaugural program director of NYU Tulsa, an initiative that brings NYU students to Tulsa, Oklahoma, to engage in academic courses, community activities, and local internships. The program is the university’s sixteenth global location and fourth in the United States.
Dr. Smith has been serving as a professor of English at Oklahoma State University and director of the OSU-Tulsa Honors Program. In addition to her primary appointment, she held faculty affiliations with the American Indian studies and American studies programs. Until this summer, she also directed OSU’s Center for Poets and Writers. She will continue to hold her current faculty position and she takes on her new role with NYU Tulsa.
As a scholar, Dr. Smith focuses her work on American Indian studies, global indigenous studies and racial healing. She has authored three books including Urban Homelands: Writing the Native City from Oklahoma (University of Nebraska Press, 2023). She also currently serves as editor of the journal American Indian Quarterly.
Dr. Smith is a graduate of Hendrix College in Conway, Arkansas, where she majored in English. She holds a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in English from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.