Kim Warren

Professor Warren (Ph.D. and M.A. Stanford; B.A. Yale) is a scholar of gender and race in African American and Native American studies, history of education, and United States history. Warren's publications include The Quest for Citizenship: African American and Native American Education in Kansas, 1880–1935 (University of North Carolina Press, 2010), which examines the formation of African American and Native American citizenship, belonging, and identity in the United States by comparing their educational experiences in Kansas between 1880 and 1935. A postdoctoral fellowship from the Spencer Foundation/National Academy for Education supported the completion of the book. She is also editor with John L. Rury of Transforming the University of Kansas:  A History, 1965-2015 (University Press of Kansas, 2015).  Warren's other publications include examinations of Native American masculinity and athletics, separate gender spheres ideology, and African American tourism in West Africa. Warren’s second monograph, an investigation of Mary McLeod Bethune's political strategies to advance the movements of women and African Americans in the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration, has been supported by a postdoctoral fellowship from the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation.  Professor Warren was the Danish Distinguished Chair in American Studies at the University of Southern Denmark through the Fulbright Foundation in 2017-18.