Kim Warren

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  • Associate Professor
  • Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education
  • History of the United States of America; Citizenship and American Identity; Identity Development in the African Diaspora

Contact Info

Phone:
785-864-9451
Wescoe Hall, Room 3616
Office Hours:
By Appointment Only, kwarren@ku.edu

Biography —

Professor Warren (Ph.D. and M.A. Stanford; B.A. Yale) is a scholar of United States history. Warren's publications include The Quest for Citizenship: African American and Native American Education in Kansas, 1880–1935 and “Recasting Mary McLeod Bethune’s Legacy: Permanence in the U.S. Capitol and Memorializing the Present,” Pacific Historical Review (Summer 2024).  She is co-editor of Transforming the University of Kansas:  A History, 1965-2015 and co-editor of Unequal Sisters:  A Revolutionary Reader in U.S. Women’s History, 5th edition.  Her scholarship has been supported by the Spencer Foundation/National Academy for Education, the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, American Philosophical Society, and the Roosevelt Institute.  Professor Warren was the Danish Distinguished Chair in American Studies at the University of Southern Denmark through the Fulbright Foundation and currently serves the University of Kansas as the Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education.

Research —

History of gender and race in African American and Native American education; history of Kansas; United States history; women's history; citizenship and American identity; race and gender relations; identity development in the African Diaspora; social, civil rights, and reform movements.

Teaching —

Professor Warren’s teaching experiences include women's history, citizenship and American identity, race and gender relations, identity development in the African Diaspora, as well as social, civil rights, and reform movements. Warren regularly offers service-learning options in her upper-level women's history course; a link to her electronic course poster in the Center for Teaching Excellence gallery can be seen here. A faculty consultant on two Teaching American History grants, Warren has also served as primary advisor for several middle- and high-school social studies and history teachers pursuing M.A. degrees through the Department of History. Warren has served as both Undergraduate and Graduate Director for the Department, and continues to serve as primary advisor for several honors undergraduates and graduate students in the Ph.D. program.

Recent Courses:

  • HIST 128: United States History through the Civil War
  • HIST 301: The Historian’s Craft
  • HIST 319: History, Women, Diversity in America
  • HIST 353: Indigenous Peoples of North America
  • HIST 530: United States Women’s History before 1870
  • HIST 531: United States Women’s History after 1870
  • HIST 609: Women and Reform
  • HIST 891: Graduate Colloquium in US History: 19th Century
  • HIST 895: Colloquium in Gender History

Selected Publications —