(Ph.D., Ife, Nigeria) Associate Professor of Women's Studies and Theatre and Film: feminist criticism; post-modern theory and criticism in theatre; African-American literature

(Ph.D., Pennsylvania) Conger-Gabel Teaching Professor of English: Caribbean literature; literature of the African diaspora; women's writing; children's literature

(Ph.D., Notre Dame) Chancellors Club Teaching Professor of Sociology: social theory; American political economy

(Ph.D., Virginia) Professor of English: creative non-fiction

(Ph.D., Buffalo) Professor of English: American literature; cultural theory

(Ph.D., Iowa) Professor of Theatre and Film: film; popular culture; jazz

(Ph.D., Kansas) Professor of History and African Studies: 19th- and 20th-century South Africa with special reference to Asians; Asian-American experience

(Ph.D., Kansas) Assistant Professor of History and Environmental Studies: environmental law, policy, and history in North America; American social and political history since 1945

(Ph.D., California, Irvine) Associate Professor: race and ethnicity in literature; U.S. Latino/a and African-American fiction.

(Ph.D., Nebraska-Lincoln) Associate Professor of Sociology: environmental sociology with an emphasis on global water scarcity; qualitative research; race and ethnicity

(Ph.D., Virginia) Professor of English: literature of baseball; modern American novel; William Faulkner

(Ph.D., Stanford) Assistant Professor of History of Art: American art

(Ph.D., Indiana) Chancellors Club Teaching Professor of Political Science: contemporary political systems; political behavior; agriculture

(Ph.D., Northwestern) Assistant Professor of Sociology: the role of moral reform movements in shaping forms of social inequality

(Ph.D., Princeton) Assistant Professor of History: American culture

(Ph.D., Boston) Professor of Sociology: aging; work and organizations; medical sociology; family

(Ph.D., Minnesota) Hall Family Foundation Distinguished Professor of American Art History and Culture: American art

(Ph.D., Kansas) Kansas Health Foundation Distinguished Professor of Human Development and Family Life: American community development

(Ph.D., Indiana) Associate Professor of English: semiotics; comparative literature; Pierce studies; modern and contemporary literary and performance theory; cultural studies; drama; the avant garde

(Ph.D., Brown) Professor of English: twentieth-century American literature; literature of the American South; Faulkner studies; race studies; literary applications of psychoanalytic theory

(LLD and DD, Baptist Union Seminary) Associate Professor of African and African-American Studies: African-American leadership; African-American males

(Ph.D., Cornell) Professor of English: vernacular theories; history of the book; women's writings

(Ph.D., California, Los Angeles) Associate Professor and Graduate Director of Sociology: political and economic sociology; sociology of organizations; social stratification; globalization; and post-communist societies

(Ph.D., Chicago) Professor of Anthropology: social anthropology; semiotics; world view; social theory; Polynesia; contemporary U.S

(Ph.D., Berkeley) Associate Professor of English: American culture; poetry; globalization

(Ph.D., Cornell) Hall Distinguished Professor of American Literature and Culture: American women writers; Mark Twain; 19th-century American literature and culture; early twentieth-century American literature; historical and cultural criticism; biography; immigrant literature; American regionalism

(Ph.D., Stanford) Associate Professor of English: American Literature; African American Literature; jazz studies; American poetry; creative writing

(Ph.D., Michigan) Professor of English: lexicography; American dialects; American English

(Ph.D., Kent State) Chancellor of the University and Professor of English: American literature

(M.Phil., Kansas) Assistant Professor of African and African-American Studies: African-American culture; military history

(Ph.D., Kansas) Associate Professor of Sociology: family; medical systems; social inequality

(Ph.D., George Peabody) Chancellors Club Teaching Professor of History and Teaching and Leadership: childhood and youth; history of education

(Ph.D., Illinois) Associate Professor of English: Native American literature

(Ph.D., Stanford) Professor of Teaching and Leadership and History; educational law and policy; role of education in American society

(Ph.D., of Iowa) Professor of Law: reporting; law of communications

(Ph.D., Oklahoma) Assistant Professor of History: indigenous peoples; early America

(Ph.D., Wisconsin) Professor of Political Science: political institutions

(Ph.D., Pennsylvania) Associate Professor of Architecture: 19th-century American landscape architecture

(Ph.D., Oklahoma State) Professor of Urban Planning: American landscape

(Ph.D., Kansas) Assistant Professor of English: the Holocaust

(Ph.D., Berkeley) Assistant Professor of History: Chicano history

(Ph.D., Kansas) Chair and Professor of Religious Studies: religion in America, past and present

(Ph.D., Harvard) Assistant Professor of History: modern U.S.; cultural and intellectual history; history of sexuality; history of education; Asian-American history

(Ph.D., Southern California) Associate Professor of Geography: Sub-Saharan Africa development; cultural and political geography; research on urban and regional development in Eastern Africa; cultural studies and social theory in geography; pastoralism

(Ph.D., Stanford) University Distinguished Professor of Sociology: race; ethnicity; nationalism; sexuality; culture; social movements; comparative-historical

(Ph.D., Oregon) Associate Professor of Political Science and Indigenous Nations Studies: international relations; international law; federal Indian law and tribal government

(Ph.D., Kansas) Associate Professor of African and African-American Studies and Communication Studies: African-American women; communications Preston, Catherine (Ph.D., Pennsylvania) Associate Professor of Theatre and Film: film history and theory; visual culture

(Ph.D., New York) Assistant Professor of History of Art: photography; modern art

(Ph.D., Stanford) Associate Professor of Economics: American economic history

(Ph.D., Brown) Associate Professor of English: women's literature Shelton, Robert L. (Ph.D., Boston) Associate Professor of Religious Studies: social ethics; communication religion

(Ph.D., Kansas) Assistant Professor of Geography: cultural geography; food and culture (regional and ethnic); urban geography

(Ph.D., Kansas) Professor of Geography: American cultural geography; the Midwest

(Ph.D., Iowa) Professor of Special Education: mainstreaming educational policy

(Ph.D., Wisconsin-Madison) Associate Professor of Sociology: social theory; race and ethnicity; political and economic sociology; comparative and historical sociology

(Ph.D., Minnesota) Associate Professor of Social Welfare: social work practice and ethics

(Ph.D., Pittsburg) Associate Professor of History: business history; populism; progressivism; alcohol in American history

(Ph.D., Wisconsin) Associate Professor of Sociology: sex and gender; cultural sociology; social theory

(Ph.D., Southern California) Chair and Professor of Sociology: comparative; historical; medical and legal systems; political sociology; theory; work and organizations

(Ph.D., Colorado) Professor of Anthropology: applied; policy studies; ethnic relations; rapid-growth communities; North American Indians; contemporary Great Plains

(Ph.D., Minnesota) Associate Professor of English: African American and American literatures

(Ph.D., Stanford) Assistant Professor of History: 19th century U.S. women's history

(Ph.D., North Carolina) Professor of Economics: American economic history

(Ph.D., Indiana) Professor of History: diplomatic and military history; Atlantic world

(Ph.D., St. Andrews) Professor of Humanities and Western Civilization and Philosophy: philosophy of religion

(Ph.D., Yale) Hall Family Foundation Distinguished Professor of American History: environmental history; the West

(Ph.D., University of Wisconsin) Professor of Indigenous Nations Studies: effects of colonialism and methods of decolonization

(Ph.D., Minnesota) Associate Professor of Health Policy and Management: gender; medical sociology; methodology