Academic Appointments

Professor, KU American Studies, Departments of American Studies and African and African American Studies,

Vice Provost of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging,KU

Artistic Director, KC Melting Pot Theatre, Kansas City

Publications

Books

Hip-hop in Musical Theater- (Bloomsbury, 2023).

Breaking it Down: Audition Techniques for Actors the Global Majority(Roman & Littlefield, 2022). (co-authored with Dr. Monica Ndounou, Dartmouth College)

Sampling Blackness in HIp-Hop Theater and Performance (University of Michigan Press 2021).

Not Tragic: Fredi Washington, Resistance, and Disruption from Broadway to Sunset Boulevard (book proposal under-review)

Co-edited collections:

Diva: Hip-Hop, Feminism, and Fierceness from Pop to Hip-Hop (Bloomsbury, 2023)

Co-editors:Dr. Kirsty Fairclough, Dr. Benjamin Halligan, Dr. Shara Rambarran, and Dr. Nicole Hodges Persley.

Edited works:

Black Matters: Lewis Morrow Plays, (Methuen, 2022.

Articles and Book Chapters: Academia.edu: Nicole Hodges Persley

Awards and Honors

Friends of the Center Award, KU Center for Sexuality and Gender Diversity, 2024.

Pride Award - KU Student Involvement and Leadership Center
2017.

Faculty Diversity Award, KU 2018.

NEH Grant - National Endowment of the Humanities
2015 - 2016.

Byron T. Shutz Teaching Award - University of Kansas
2015.