Academic Appointments
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.