Peter Ukpokodu

Dr. Peter Ukpokodu joined KU's faculty in 1990, where he teaches in the Department of African & African-American Studies and holds a courtesy appointment in the Department of Theatre & Dance. He served as Chair of African and African-American studies for several years. 

His academic interests include African and African-American Theatre, African film, and African culture (especially traditional religion and thought). Dr. Ukpokodu has received grants to support student scholarships from the Educational Opportunity Fund, has acted as consultant to and co-writer of U.S. Department of Education grants and the Fulbright-Hays Group Project Abroad. 

A past president of the Mid-America Alliance for African Studies, the co-convener of the millennial conference of the African Literature Association, and the founding parliamentarian of the Kansas chapter of the Association for the Study of African-American Life and History, Dr. Ukpokodu is the recipient of the W. T. Kemper Fellowship for Teaching Excellence; the "Excellence in Teaching" Award of the Center for Teaching Excellence; the Golden Poet Award of World of Poetry and the "APA Award of Merit." He is a member of the International Federation for Theatre Research, American Society for Theatre Research, National Association for African-American Studies, and is an invited member of the Oxford Round Table, Oxford University, Great Britain.

Learn more about Peter Ukpokodu on KU's Department of African and African-American Studies website.