Nicole Hodges Persley
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- Vice Provost for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging
- Associate Professor
- Courtesy Associate Professor of Theatre & Dance
- American Studies
- African & African American Studies
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Bailey Hall 12B
Lawrence
1440 Jayhawk Boulevard
Lawrence, KS 66045
Lawrence
1440 Jayhawk Boulevard
Lawrence, KS 66045
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Biography —
Dr. Nicole Hodges Persley is an award winning professor and director. She is an Associate Professor of American Studies and African American Studies who specializes areas of Hip-hop Studies, Acting and Directing and African American performance in theater, film and television. An artist-scholar, Hodges Persley creates intentional bridges between the entertainment industry and academia. She is the author of Sampling and Remixing Blackness in Hip Hop Performance and Breaking It Down: Auditioning for Artists of the Global Majority, co-written with Monica Ndounou of Dartmouth University