AAAS Faculty Core Faculty Shawn Leigh AlexanderProfessor and Chairperson of African and African-American StudiesDirector of the Langston Hughes CenterView full profile Tony BoldenProfessor of African and African-American StudiesDirector of Undergraduate StudiesView full profile Amal El HaimeurAssistant Teaching Professor of Arabic and African and African-American StudiesCoordinator of the African & African Diasporic Language ProgramView full profile Dorothy E. HinesAssociate Professor of African and African-American StudiesAssociate Professor in Curriculum and Teaching in the School of Education and Human SciencesView full profile Nicole Hodges PersleyAssociate Professor of American Studies and African & African American StudiesArtistic Director of the KC Melting Pot TheatreView full profile Randal JelksProfessor of American Studies and African and African-American StudiesView full profile Elizabeth MacGonagleAssociate Professor of History and African and African-American StudiesView full profile Peter OjiamboAssociate Professor of African and African-American StudiesView full profile Dorthy Lee PenningtonAssociate Professor of African and African-American Studies and Communications StudiesView full profile Peter UkpokoduRoy A. Roberts Distinguished Professor of African and African-American StudiesView full profile James YékúAssistant Professor of African and African-American StudiesView full profile Emeritus Faculty Naima BoussofaraAssociate Emerita Professor of African & African-American StudiesView full profile Arthur D. DraytonProfessor Emeritus of African and African-American StudiesView full profile Bryant C. FreemanProfessor Emeritus of African and African American StudiesFormer Chair Univ. of Kansas Dept. of French and ItalianFounder Univ. of Kansas Institute of Haitian StudiesView full profile Jacob U. GordonProfessor Emeritus of African and African-American StudiesResearch Fellow of the Institute of Life Span StudiesExecutive Director of the Center for Multicultural LeadershipView full profile Beverly MackProfessor Emerita of African Studies in the Department of African and African American StudiesView full profile
Shawn Leigh AlexanderProfessor and Chairperson of African and African-American StudiesDirector of the Langston Hughes CenterView full profile
Tony BoldenProfessor of African and African-American StudiesDirector of Undergraduate StudiesView full profile
Amal El HaimeurAssistant Teaching Professor of Arabic and African and African-American StudiesCoordinator of the African & African Diasporic Language ProgramView full profile
Dorothy E. HinesAssociate Professor of African and African-American StudiesAssociate Professor in Curriculum and Teaching in the School of Education and Human SciencesView full profile
Nicole Hodges PersleyAssociate Professor of American Studies and African & African American StudiesArtistic Director of the KC Melting Pot TheatreView full profile
Elizabeth MacGonagleAssociate Professor of History and African and African-American StudiesView full profile
Dorthy Lee PenningtonAssociate Professor of African and African-American Studies and Communications StudiesView full profile
Peter UkpokoduRoy A. Roberts Distinguished Professor of African and African-American StudiesView full profile
Bryant C. FreemanProfessor Emeritus of African and African American StudiesFormer Chair Univ. of Kansas Dept. of French and ItalianFounder Univ. of Kansas Institute of Haitian StudiesView full profile
Jacob U. GordonProfessor Emeritus of African and African-American StudiesResearch Fellow of the Institute of Life Span StudiesExecutive Director of the Center for Multicultural LeadershipView full profile
Beverly MackProfessor Emerita of African Studies in the Department of African and African American StudiesView full profile