Partner Directory

(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,

PROJECTS
GeoTestimonios Transfronterizxs

CONTACT
sferna109@gmail.com

Melissa Fisher Isaacs

Information Services Coordinator, Lawrence Public Library

PROJECTS
Digital Douglas County History

CONTACT
mfisherisaacs@lplks.org

Jenny Flinders

Research Project Manager, Center for Public Partnerships and Research, University of Kansas

PROJECTS
Our Tomorrows

CONTACT
jflinders@ku.edu

Nishani Frazier

Co-Principal Investigator, Stories for All and Associate Professor of History and American Studies, University of Kansas

PROJECTS
Voices of the Displaced

CONTACT
nmfrazier@ku.edu

Stephen Garlow

38North

PROJECTS
Showcasing Open Space through Accessible Adventure

Rebecca Gillam

Associate Director, Center for Public Partnerships and Research, University of Kansas

PROJECTS
Our Tomorrows

CONTACT
rgillam@ku.edu

Vianna González

Founder, Ki’kotemal Tijob’al, Guatemala

PROJECTS
Pa k’u’x / Desde el centro / From the Center

Jenna Goodman

38North

PROJECTS
Showcasing Open Space through Accessible Adventure

Maryemma Graham

University Distinguished Professor, University of Kansas

CONTACT
mgraham@ku.edu

Clara Groene

38North

PROJECTS
Showcasing Open Space through Accessible Adventure

Jonathan Groene

38North

PROJECTS
Showcasing Open Space through Accessible Adventure

Heidi L. Hallman

Professor of Curriculum and Teaching, University of Kansas

PROJECTS
Invested Stayers: Portraits of Teachers who Thrive in Challenging Times

CONTACT
hhallman@ku.edu

Ayesha Hardison

Associate Professor of English and of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and Director, History of Black Writing, University of Kansas, and Co-Principal Investigator, Stories for All

PROJECTS
History of Black Writing (HBW)

CONTACT
hardison@ku.edu

Will Haynes

Director of Engagement and Learning, Watkins Museum of History

PROJECTS
Connecting our Community to its Past through Digital Resources

CONTACT
whaynes@watkinsmuseum.org

Jason Heppler

Research Director, American Indian Digital History Project; Senior Web Developer, Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, George Mason University

PROJECTS
American Indian Digital History Project

Blanca Herrada

Exhibitions Coordinator, Lawrence Arts Center

PROJECTS
Finding La Yarda: A digital storytelling art installation

David Hollond

Founder, Free State Story Slam; Lawrence Arts Center

PROJECTS
Free State Story Slam

Marla Arna Jackson

Director, African American Quilt Museum and Textile Academy

PROJECTS
Untold Stories: Former Enslaved Americans Who Sought Freedom in Lawrence, KS

CONTACT
marlajackson028@gmail.com

Matt Jacobson

Professor, Film and Media Studies, University of Kansas

PROJECTS
Reclaiming Home: Remembering the Topeka Bottoms

CONTACT
mattjaco@ku.edu

Peter Jasso

Filmmaker, Incomplete Films

PROJECTS
Finding La Yarda: A digital storytelling art installation

Randal Maurice Jelks

Professor of African and African American Studies and American Studies at the University of Kansas, Principal Investigator, Stories for All

CONTACT
mjelks@ku.edu

Sarah Jen

Assistant Professor, School of Social Welfare; Director, Sigler Family Aging Scholars Program, University of Kansas

PROJECTS
Untold Stories

Brittany Keegan

Curator of Exhibits and Collections, Watkins Museum of History

PROJECTS
Connecting our Community to its Past through Digital Resources

Bob Kendrick

President, Negro Leagues Baseball Museum

PROJECTS
Negro League Video Shorts

Teri Kennedy

Ida Johnson Feaster Professor of Interprofessional Practice, Education, Policy, and Research, and Associate Dean, Office of Interprofessional Practice, Education, Policy, and Research, School of Nursing, University of Kansas

PROJECTS
Preserving the History and Contributions of Interprofessional Practice and Education

CONTACT
tkennedy4@kumc.edu

Alex Kimball Williams

Co-founder, B.L.A.C.K. Lawrence

PROJECTS
Police Brutality Song

beautiful ashe: memoirs of a sweet black boy & other poems

Ani Kokobobo

Associate Professor and Chair of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Kansas

PROJECTS
COVID-19 Stories

Stephanie Krehbiel

Executive Director and Co-Founder, Into Account

PROJECTS
Survivors Speak: Centering Survivor Autonomy in Digital Storytelling

CONTACT
skrehbiel@intoaccount.org

David LaCrone

Digital Branch Manager, Kansas City Public Library

PROJECTS
An Era of Rights: Kansas City’s Struggle for Equality, 1950-1980

CONTACT
davidlacrone@kclibrary.org

Jill Lafer

rePRO Consultant

PROJECTS
rePRO Film

Tara Laver

Senior Archivist, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

PROJECTS
Kansas City’s Culturally Diverse Communities and The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: Oral Histories

Amanda Lawson

Assistant Director of Research for the L.I.F.E. Research Lab, Miami University

PROJECTS
Voices of the Displaced

Shania Lopez-Cabrera

Finance Chair, Lawrence PRIDE

PROJECTS
Queer Voices

CONTACT
lawrencekspridefinance@gmail.com

Shane Lynch

PhD Candidate in American Studies, University of Kansas

PROJECTS
Gila River Generations

Elizabeth MacGonagle

Associate Professor of History and of African and African American Studies, University of Kansas

PROJECTS
Coming to the Heartland

CONTACT
macgonag@ku.edu

Mallory Martin

Co-Founder, rePRO Film, Artistic Director, Artistic Director, Cleveland International Film Festival

PROJECTS
rePRO Film

James McGee

Senior Manager of Visitor and Virtual Experience, American Jazz Museum

PROJECTS
Trading Fours: An Oral Exchange on Jazz Musical Influence and Biography

Lela Meadow-Conner

Curator/Producer/Founder, mama.film

PROJECTS
rePRO Film

CONTACT
lela@mama.film

Valerie Mendoza

Independent Public Historian, Washburn University

PROJECTS
Reclaiming Home: Remembering the Topeka Bottoms

The Chicano Movement in Kansas

CONTACT
valmarmen@gmail.com

Sara Minor

Secretary, Lawrence NAACP

PROJECTS
Stories of African-American Life in Lawrence

Ursula Minor

President, Lawrence NAACP

PROJECTS
Stories of African-American Life in Lawrence

Ray Mizumura-Pence

Associate Teaching Professor, Department of American Studies, University of Kansas

PROJECTS
From Disability Rights to Disability Justice in Kansas: Reflecting on the First Fifty Years, Anticipating Better Futures

CONTACT
rpence@ku.edu

Nasir Anthony Montalvo

Managing Editor, Kansas City Defender

PROJECTS
{B/qKC}: Black/queer Kansas City

CONTACT
nasir@kansascitydefender.com

Margaret Morris

Chief Executive Officer, Lawrence Arts Center

PROJECTS
Free State Story Slam

Gris Muñoz

Independent writer / Escritora independiente

PROJECTS
GeoTestimonios Transfronterizxs

CONTACT
ranatzin@gmail.com

Joshua Nathan

Independent Filmmaker, Independent Storytellers

PROJECTS
Kansas: An Eclogue

Dr. Beryl New, Ed.D.

PROJECTS
“I, Too, Have a Voice”: Authentic Stories from the Brown v. Board Experience in Topeka, Kansas

CONTACT
lv2przm@yahoo.com

Steve Nowak

Executive Director, Watkins Museum of History

PROJECTS
Connecting our Community to its Past through Digital Resources

Joey Orr

The Andrew W. Mellon Curator for Research, Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas

PROJECTS
Building Interdisciplinary Stories with the Integrated Arts Research Initiative at the Spencer Museum of Art

CONTACT
joeyorr@ku.edu

Lois Orth-Lopes

Assistant Secretary, Lawrence NAACP

PROJECTS
Stories of African-American Life in Lawrence

CONTACT
loisorthl@aol.com

Kristen Pastore-Capuana

Assistant Professor of English, Buffalo State College

PROJECTS
Invested Stayers: Portraits of Teachers who Thrive in Challenging Times

CONTACT
pastorka@buffalostate.edu

Marietta Patterson

PROJECTS
“I, Too, Have a Voice”: Authentic Stories from the Brown v. Board Experience in Topeka, Kansas

CONTACT
marietta.patterson@att.net

Donna Rae Pearson

Local Historian, Kitchen Table History, Topeka and Shawnee County Public Library

PROJECTS
Reclaiming Home: Remembering the Topeka Bottoms

CONTACT
donnarae64@gmail.com

Rashida Phillips

Executive Director, American Jazz Museum

PROJECTS
Trading Fours: An Oral Exchange on Jazz Musical Influence and Biography

Jay Price

Professor of History and Director of the Local and Community History Program, Wichita State University

PROJECTS
Wichita Nonwhite Business Owners tell Their Stories

CONTACT
jay.price@wichita.edu

Erin Raux

Museum Director, Mid-America All-Indian Museum

PROJECTS
Tell Me a Story

CONTACT
eraux@wichita.gov

Terri L. Rodriguez

Professor of Education, College of St. Benedict and St. John’s University

PROJECTS
Invested Stayers: Portraits of Teachers who Thrive in Challenging Times

CONTACT
trodriguez@csbsju.edu

Jason Roe

Digital History Specialist, Kansas City Public Library

PROJECTS
An Era of Rights: Kansas City’s Struggle for Equality, 1950-1980

Patrick Ross

Independent Filmmaker, Independent Storytellers

PROJECTS
Kansas: An Eclogue

CONTACT
prossku@gmail.com

Olivia Sabal

MSW Sigler Family Aging Scholar, University of Kansas

PROJECTS
Untold Stories

CONTACT
osabal@ku.edu

Rachel Schwaller

Multi-Term Lecturer, University of Kansas

PROJECTS
“Unsettled Lawrence”: Challenging Collective Memory of Settlement Through the Oral and Public Histories of Unhoused Populations in Lawrence

CONTACT
rschwallr@ku.edu

April Scott

Executive Director, Mid-America All-Indian Museum

PROJECTS
Tell Me a Story

CONTACT
AScott@wichita.gov

Hyunjin Seo

Professor, Oscar Stauffer Chair in Journalism, and Associate Dean for Research and Development, William Allen White School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Kansas

PROJECTS
Community-based Approaches to Sigital Storytelling: Marginalized Women’s Technology Access and Use

CONTACT
hseo@ku.edu