Russell Cobb

Russell Cobb , a fourth-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. His reporting appearing on This American Life was turned into the film Come Sunday, distributed by Netflix . He is also the host of History X , a podcast about buried...See more

Russell Cobb , a fourth-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. His reporting appearing on This American Life was turned into the film Come Sunday, distributed by Netflix . He is also the host of History X , a podcast about buried histories and nonfiction mysteries, broadcast on 88.5FM in Edmonton, Canada, and across all major podcast platforms. See less