Initiatives & Partnerships

In addition to KASC's partnership with the federal government as one of ten National Resource Centers, KASC's collaborative spirit proudly manifests in our affiliation and initiatives with various national foundations, as well as multiple departments and programs both within and outside the state of Kansas.

Together with its partners, KASC has organized, facilitated, hosted, and/or collaborated on seminal projects and initiatives that have brought a nuanced perspective of Africa to the communities we serve. For example, "Coming to the Heartland," was a collaborative project between the Kansas African Studies Center and the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, with funding and support from KU’s Hall Center for the Humanities and the Institute for Digital Research in the Humanities.

Focusing on the diversity, adversity, and struggles of Latin American and African immigrants in the Heartland, this initiative asked how the new digital age affects the stories that immigrants tell, as well as the possibilities for their visibility in the wider community. The project positioned past and recent immigrant stories in trans-generational conversation with one another through multimedia and multi-modal vignettes, constructed via the storytelling methods unique and best suited to each generation.