Administrative Staff

Chairperson: Clarence Lang
Office Manager: Roxie Lytle
Student Office Assistants: Zyrie Berry-Hendricks, Amber Papoola, and Anaiya Underwood
Student Social Media Specialist: Maddie Haynes
Director, Graduate Studies: Shawn Alexander
Director, Undergraduate Studies: Tony Bolden
Director, African Languages: Peter Ojiambo
Director, Humanities Multicultural Scholars Program: Diane Fourny
Director, Institute of Haitian Studies: Cécile Accilien
Director, Langston Hughes Center: Shawn Alexander
Director, Kansas African Studies Center: Elizabeth MacGonagle

Committee Chairs

Curriculum: Jennifer Hamer
Evaluations: Beverly Mack
Student Honors: Tony Bolden
Grievance: Dorthy Pennington
Graduate: Shawn Alexander
GTA: Shawn Alexander

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Announcements

KU announces first Diversity Leadership Awards
Thursday, October 13, 2016

The Langston Hughes Center received a $180,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to conduct a June 2017 summer institute for high school teachers, entitled "Teaching the 'Long Hot Summer' of 1967 and Beyond." The project will be led by Shawn Alexander, Clarence Lang, and John Rury.

Teresa Leslie-Canty, AAAS Lecturer and a Topeka High School teacher, nominated by her students in February, won a free Nissan Versa Tuesday night as the KSNT News and Capital City Nissan of Topeka “Teacher of the Year”. Teresa Leslie-Canty was previously the February “Teacher of the Month” after being nominated by 13 of her students.

Professor Jessica Gerschultz has been awarded the prestigious American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Fellowship for the 2015-16 academic year. The Fellowship is for her book project, Decorative Arts of the Tunisian Ecole: Fabrications of Modernism, Gender, and Class in Tunisia (1948-1972).

African and African-American studies professor Professor Beverly Mack wins inaugural engaged scholarship award

Professor Dorthy Pennington was inducted into the Central States Communication Association Hall of Fame (April 2015)

Student Spotlight

Second year AAAS MA student, Caroline Kastor is also a professional athlete. This summer Caroline, former KU soccer standout, signed with FC Kansas City and topped off her rookie season by helping lead the organization to their second straight National Women’s Soccer League championship on October 1, 2015.

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