Hungry Oklahoma: Confronting Poverty and Food Insecurity book presentation with author Robert Lee Maril

About this event

On Wednesday, September 9, at noon, the Oklahoma Territorial Museum and Carnegie Library will be hosting a book presentation with author Robert Lee Maril. He will be discussing his book Hungry Oklahoma: Confronting Poverty and Food Insecurity (University of Oklahoma Press, 2026). In writing the book, Maril drew upon interviews and participant-observation data from his volunteer work at a food pantry and combined them with census and sociological data. Join in the discussion about the ethnographic detail of the status of poverty and low-wage workers in the state today. From OU Press: “In Oklahoma, one out of every six residents is poor. One in five children lives in poverty and faces food insecurity. In Hungry Oklahoma, native son and sociologist Robert Lee Maril follows in the tradition of the national bestsellers Nickel and Dimed and Evicted to illuminate the lived experience of poverty and food insecurity in communities across the state. Maril’s account is immediately personal.”