Stories for All Team
Advisory Board
Marlo Angell
Curator of Film and Media, Free State Festival Director, Lawrence Arts Center
Nishani Frazier
Co-Principal Investigator
Associate Professor of American Studies and History
Ayesha Hardison
Co-Principal Investigator
Associate Professor of English and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Randall Maurice Jelks
Principal Investigator
Professor of African and African American Studies and American Studies
Steve Nowak
Executive Director, Watkins Museum of History
Denise Sherman
Executive Director, The Kansas African American Museum
Alex Williams
Co-Founder, B.L.A.C.K. Lawrence
Carmaletta Williams
Lead Co-Principal Investigator
Executive Director, Black Archives of Mid-America in Kansas City
The Team at KU
Carmaletta Williams
Lead Co-Principal Investigator
Executive Director, Black Archives of Mid-America in Kansas City
Kent Blansett
Co-Principal Investigator until July 2022
Langston Hughes Associate Professor of Indigenous Studies and History
Ignacio Carvajal
Co-Principal Investigator until June 2022
Until June 2022, Assistant Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Kansas / From July 2022, Assistant Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature, University of California at San Diego
Sylvia Fernández
Co-Principal Investigator until December 2021
Until December 2021, Public and Digital Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow at the Hall Center for the Humanities, University of Kansas, and Co-Principal Investigator, Stories for All / From January 2022, Assistant Professor, Digital Technology and Culture, Washington State University
Nishani Frazier
Co-Principal Investigator
Associate Professor of American Studies and History
Ayesha Hardison
Co-Principal Investigator
Associate Professor of English and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Najarian Peters
Co-Principal Investigator
Associate Professor of Law
Yidong Wang
From July 2022
Public and Digital Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow at the Hall Center for the Humanities, University of Kansas, and Co-Principal Investigator, Stories for All
Dave Tell
Professor of Communication Studies and Co-Director of Institute for Digital Research in the Humanities
Timmia DeRoy
PhD Candidate in Theater and Dance, and Graduate Research Assistant, Stories for All Project
Kaylen Dwyer
Digital Media Specialist at the Institute for Digital Research in the Humanities
April Walton
Administrative Associate and Administrative Liaison for Stories for All Project at the Hall Center for the Humanities