Administrative Experiences

  • Project Director, "Reading and Remembering Langston Hughes," University of Kansas, 2001-2002
  • Director, American Minority Studies, St. Olaf College, 1973-1974
  • Acting Chairman, Black Studies Department, University of Nebraska at Omaha, 1972-1973
  • Director, Atchison Neighborhood Center, Atchison, KS, 1969-1970

Professional Services

  • Panelist, Fellowships Committee, Schomburg Research Center, February 2008
  • Reviewer, Promotion and Tenure candidate at Miami University, Summer 2007
  • Manuscript Reviewer, African American Review, 1994- present
  • Manuscript Reviewer, University of Tennessee Press, 2000-2001
  • Editorial Consultant, Prentice-Hall Publishing Company, 1999
  • Resident Scholar, "Crossing Boundaries/Making Connections: African American and American Culture," Kansas Humanities Council, Spring 1996
  • Reviewer, Reference Materials Program, Division of Research Programs, National Endowment for the Humanities, November 1994
  • Panelist, Literature, Languages, and Humanities Committee, Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowships Program, National Research Council, March 1995 and March 1996
  • Manuscript Reviewer, Callaloo, 1997

Professional Memberships

  • Modern Language Association
  • College Language Association
  • The Langston Hughes Society