Educational Leadership and Policy Studies
Educational Studies
Email: oxendine@ou.edu
Phone: (405) 325-4202
Office: Collings Hall 209
Dr. Christy L. Oxendine (Lumbee) is a proud first-generation college graduate from Lumberton, North Carolina, in Robeson County. Before joining the faculty as an assistant professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies in August 2023, she worked in higher education administration for over 15 years. Dr. Oxendine holds a B.A. degree from East Carolina University, student affairs (Minnesota State University, Mankato), and theology (Emory University) graduate degrees, and received her Ph.D. in Social and Cultural Studies of Education from Iowa State University.
As a decolonial education historian, Dr. Oxendine incorporates Indigenous ways of knowing and examines the role of settler colonization in developing public schools. Dr. Oxendine’s current research focuses on the racialization of the Lumbee people in Robeson County, North Carolina, and the tri-racial state and county school system with specific attention to the Lumbee community schools from 1885 to 1940.
