Black Studies Program

“In advanced societies, it is not the race politicians or the 'rights' leaders who create the new images of man. That role belongs to the artists and the intellectuals of each generation.”

Harold Cruse
Crisis of the Negro Intellectual

Faculty and staff

Core faculty

Clovis E. Semmes, Ph.D.

Professor and Director
Phone: 816-235-5097
E-mail: semmesc@umkc.edu

Veronica Nana Wilson-Tagoe, Ph.D.

Visiting Professor
Phone: 816-235-5098
E-mail: wilsontagoev@umkc.edu

Affiliate faculty

Maude Wahlman, Ph.D.

Professor
Phone: 816-235-2986
E-mail: wahlmanm@umkc.edu
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Hadara Bar-Nadav, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor
Phone: 816-235-6030
E-mail: barnadvh@umkc.edu

Pellom McDaniels, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor
Phone: 816-235-1339
E-mail: mcdanielsp@umkc.edu
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Toya Like, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor
Phone: 816-235-5706
E-mail: liket@umkc.edu
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Anthony Sze-Fai Shiu, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor
Phone: 816-235-5205
E-mail: shiua@umkc.edu
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Staff

LaDonna McCullough

Administrative Assistant
Phone: 816-235-6588
E-mail: mcculloughl@umkc.edu

Gerald J.B. Mupingo

Graduate Assistant
Phone: 816-235-2636
E-mail: gjm4zd@umkc.edu