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Professor Biographies:
Dr. Saundra Ardrey
Department head
In her eighth year as chair of the Political Science Department, Dr. Ardrey specializes in voting and electoral behavior. Dr. Ardrey conducts research on the political participation of women and minorities and has made contributions to the extant literature through several publications on the political beliefs and behavior of African Americans. Her areas of expertise also include African American Studies, media and politics, campaign management and political opinion. A graduate of Winston-Salem State University and The Ohio State University, she is recognized as a media analyst for both local and state media outlets. In addition to University teaching and administrative responsibilities, Dr. Ardrey is active in local politics and community activities. She has been a campaign manager, Democratic party executive committee member, president of the Bowling Green/Warren County NOW, and currently serves as the political action committee chair for the local National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Dr. Ardrey is a much sought after speaker and commentator and has received numerous awards and honors, including Outstanding People of the 20th Century.
Dr. Nancy Dawson
Dr. Nancy J. Dawson (Nana Efua Sanka), a part-time faculty member in African American Studies at Western Kentucky University, is an independent Africana Studies scholar. She has been a professor of African American Studies for more than 15 years,having held professorships at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, and Austin Peay State University, where she was director of the African American Studies program. She has published in several academic journals and has presented at colleges and universities across the country. She has worked in collaboration with Georgetown College(Kentucky) to document Underground Railroad sites in Western, Kentucky and she is thecurator of several African American exhibits traveling throughout the state of Kentucky.
In 1999, Dr. Dawson was enstooled as a traditional queenmother in the village of Sanka in Ghana, West Africa. In Central America, she studied with Garifuna spiritual leaders. In relationship to her travels, Dr. Dawson lectures throughout the United States on the commonalities between African and African American cultures. She is working to preserve endangered African American cemeteries in Western, Kentucky and Middle Tennessee by using various scientific and humanistic methodologies. In addition, Dr. Dawson does civil rights and conflict resolution training for communities, industries and colleges and universities.Dr. Dawson is currently working with the American Studies Association of Turkey to help bring African American Studies into the curriculum of Turkish Universities.
Martha J. Sales
Martha currently teaches African American Experience at WKU and volunteers her time to serve as the Assistant Director for the African American Studies Department where she is responsible for the department’s programming.She is the part-time faculty award winner for 2007, here at WKU.She is very involved in
Associate Professor Lynn Holland
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