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

Carmaletta Williams

Lead Co-Principal Investigator

Executive Director, Black Archives of Mid-America in Kansas City

The Team at KU

Carmaletta Williams

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

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