Christopher Arris Oakley

Christopher Arris Oakley is an Associate Professor of History at East Carolina University. He specializes in North Carolina History and Native American History. Oakley received his B.A. from the University of North Carolina and his Ph.D. from the University of Tennessee. He has published scholarly articles in The North Carolina Historical Review, Mississippi Quarterly, Southern Cultures, Native South, and The Journal of the North Carolina Association of Historians. He has also presented papers at a number of professional conferences, including the Southern History Conference, the Western History Conference, and the Ethnohistory Conference. In 2005, University of Nebraska Press published Oakley's first book, Keeping the Circle: American Indian Identity in Eastern North Carolina 1885-2004, as part of its Indians of the Southeast series. His newest book is New South Indians: Tribal Economics and the Eastern Band of Cherokee, published in 2018 by the University of Tennessee Press.