Author

Sarah Eppler Janda

Sarah Eppler Janda is a Professor of History at Cameron University in Lawton, Oklahoma where she has been teaching since 2001.  She received a bachelor’s degree in history and philosophy in 1996, a master’s degree in history in 1999 and a Ph.D. in history in 2002 from the University of Oklahoma, where she studied with Albert Hurtado.

Her first book, Beloved Women: The Political Lives of LaDonna Harris and Wilma Mankiller was published in 2007 by Northern Illinois University Press, and her second book, Pride of the Wichitas: A History of Cameron University was published by the Oklahoma Hall of Fame in 2010.  The University of Oklahoma Press published her latest book, Prairie Power: Student Activism, Counterculture, and Backlash in Oklahoma, 1962–1972.

Hall of Fame Inductee

Sarah Eppler Janda
was inducted into the Oklahoma Hall of Fame in
.

Recent Publications

Adult

Pride of the Wichitas

Cameron was one of six agricultural high schools created in 1908 and became a junior college in 1927. During World War II, students linked school pride, patriotism, and Christianity into a single label of being "Cameronistic". In the late 1960s, Cameron began transitioning into a four year university and began granting four-year degrees in 1970.