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Ralph CrowderRalph Crowder, Ethnic Studies – (Associate Professor,
Ph.D. 1994 University of Kansas) Professor Crowder's areas of teaching specialization include late nineteenth and twentieth century African American history, Pan-African history, African America and the International Community, Native American slavery and the Black Indian Experience, intellectual, and cultural history. He has authored several articles on the contributions and struggle of self-trained Black historians and intellectuals, shared intellectual and political connections of Pan-African advocates, the life of John Edward Bruce (1856-1924), Black intellectual activity outside of the academic world, and African Americans and politics of self-determination. Professor Crowder also has a keen interest in local African American history. He has coordinated the collection of oral interviews and family photographs through the Inland Empire Black History Project, the Kansas State Historical Society, the Kansas Humanities Commission, and the Brown Foundation. In addition, he has published Black history articles in the local press and facilitated the first Black History Academic Bowl for Inland Empire high school youth with the cooperation of the Riverside African American Historical Society.
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