University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma faculty

Nellie Ellen Shepherd (April 30, 1877 – July 18, 1920) was an American painter. She was one of the earliest professional women artists in Oklahoma.

Anna Lewis (1885–1961) was a noted teacher, historian and writer, who specialized in American History, and particularly the History of the Southwest. Born in what was then Indian Territory to a family of mixed Choctaw and European Ancestry, she earned doctoral degrees from University of California, Berkeley (1915) and University of Oklahoma (1930). She was the first woman to receive a Ph. D. at the University of Oklahoma. Lewis spent her educational career at the Oklahoma College for Women (now the University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma (USAO)). She wrote two books and numerous articles for publications in her area of interest before retiring in 1956 to a home she had built in southern Oklahoma (the former Choctaw Nation before Oklahoma became a state). She died in 1961.

Richard Lowitt (February 25, 1922 – June 23, 2018) was an American historian. He was a professor of American History at Iowa State University, the University of Oklahoma, and the University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma, and the author of several books about the American West.

Jacques Abram (August 6, 1915 – October 5, 1998), born Jack Gregory Abram, an American classical pianist, was born in Lufkin, Texas and died in Tampa, Florida.

Charles Ray Ritcheson (26 February 1925 – 8 December 2011) was an American historian, diplomat, and university administrator.