The OU Humanitarian Innovation Research Group (HIRG), founded in 2020, is a transdisciplinary research team, working towards the development of an effective refugee resettlement model for the benefit of both host and refugee communities in the U.S., within a global framework. The impact of this transdisciplinary team in global communities will be multidimensional, as indicated with each member's expertise: social work, architecture, education, library and information science, marketing, business, innovation, mathematics, health/mental health, and communications.
[Founding Member]
HIRG Team Leader, Associate Director of Research and Associate Professor
Anne and Henry Zarrow School of Social Work
[Founding Member]
Director and Professor
School of Library and Information Studies
[Founding Member]
Associate Dean for Academics & College Administration and Associate Professor
Christopher C. Gibbs College of Architecture
Associate Professor
School of Library and Information Studies
[Founding Member]
Professor of Reading/Literacy Education
Jeannine Rainbolt College of Education
[Founding Member]
Associate Professor of Marketing and Supply Chain Management and Ruby K. Powell Professor of Marketing
Michael F. Price College of Business
Associate Professor Integrative Studies
College of Professional and Continuing Studies
Visiting Scholar
Gaylord College of Journalism
Instructor & Graduate Coordinator for the Online MSW Program
Anne and Henry Zarrow School of Social Work
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[Founding Member]
Environmental Design Program Coordinator, Director of Small Town Studies Institute of Quality Communities, Associate Professor of Division of Architecture, and Wick Cary Prof.
Christopher C. Gibbs College of Architecture
[Founding Member]
Associate Professor
School of Media and Communications at Korea University
Director and Professor of Marketing and Supply Chain Management and Helen Robson Walton Chair in Marketing Strategy
Michael F. Price College of Business
Assistant Professor of Asian American Studies
Honors College of The University of Oklahoma
Director of Outreach and Engagement for the Division of Access and Opportunity and Adjunct Professor for the Department of Human Relations
Division of Access and Opportunity and Dodge Family College of Arts and Sciences
[Founding Member]
Professor of Mathematics and Anadarko Petroleum Corporation Presidential Professor
David and Judi Proctor Department of Mathematics
[Founding Member]
Instructor of Entrepreneurship and Economic Development and Executive Director of the Tom Love Innovation Hub
Michael F. Price College of Business
Visiting Scholar and Human Rights Activist
Anne and Henry Zarrow School of Social Work
PhD PDC Student
Advisor: Dr. Suchi Bhattacharjee
Christopher C. Gibbs College of Architecture
Master in Social Work
Advisor: Dr. Chie Noyori-Corbett
Anne and Henry Zarrow School of Social Work
PhD Student
Advisor: Dr. June Abbas
School of Library and Information Studies
PhD Student and Instructural Leadership and Academic Curriculum
Advisor: Dr. Jiening Ruan
Jeanine Rainbolt College of Education
