The Team behind the Oklahoma City Society
Last December, it looked like the Oklahoma City Society was no more. All of the Society Officers had resigned because of health issues and no one had taken up the helm. When Dr. Joey Williams, a Lecturer at the University of Central Oklahoma, heard about this, he couldn’t let it happen. Together with his students, who had recently created their own archaeological group on campus, they worked together to revive the Oklahoma City Society. Joey tells us the full story below:
“Last year, my students at the University of Central Oklahoma expressed an interest in starting a campus organization related to archaeology since our university doesn’t have a formal archaeology program. The Archaeology Society at UCO started strong, despite the pandemic, and we hosted three visiting scholars on topics as diverse as Roman pottery from Oplontis, the ongoing investigation of the Tulsa Race Massacre, and the archaeology of anarchism in the American So