About
Aaron Schoenfeldt is the 2025-26 Duane H. King Postdoctoral Fellow in The University of Tulsa’s Helmerich Center for American Research. He received his Ph.D. in cultural anthropology from Northwestern University in June 2025 and holds a Master of Arts degree in social sciences from the University of Chicago. His dissertation, “Victims Without Perpetrators: The Making of White Innocence in the Wake of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre,” explores the modern silences around the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. His research and teaching interests are in U.S. race relations, monuments/memorials, material culture, sports and gift-exchange.
Education
- Ph.D., Northwestern University
- Dissertation: “Victims Without Perpetrators: The Making of White Innocence in the Wake of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre”
Research interests and areas of expertise
- Memory studies
- U.S. race relations
- Material culture/archives
- 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre
- Gift-exchange
- Sports
