Faculty Directory
African Studies | African-American and African Diaspora Studies | Anthropology | Apparel Merchandising and Interior Design | Applied Health Science | Art Museum | Business | Communication and Culture | Comparative Literature | Computer Science | Education | Epidemiology and Biostatistics | Fine Arts | Folklore and Ethnomusicology | Geological Sciences | History |Institute for Digital Arts and Humanities | International Programs | Journalism | Law | Library | Linguistics | Near Eastern Languages and Cultures | Optometry | Political Science | School of Public and Environmental Affairs | Spanish and Portuguese | Telecommunications | Theatre and Drama
African Studies
indiana.eduPhone: 857-3665
David Adu-Amankwah
Lecturer
Regional focus: Ghana
Research interests: African languages and cultures; Ghanian humor; ethnopragmatics
indiana.eduPhone: 855-7666
Betty Dlamini
Lecturer
Regional focus: Swaziland, South Africa, Southern Africa
Research interests: African languages and cultures; drama for development; the African novel
indiana.eduPhone: 855-5081
Maria Grosz-Ngate
Associate Director
Adjunct Faculty, Anthropology
Regional focus: Mali, Senegal
Research interests: conversion to and practice of Islam in West Africa; socio-cultural change
indiana.eduPhone: 855-8284/855-8199
Samuel Obeng
Director, African Studies Program
Professor, Linguistics
Regional focus: West and East Africa: Ghana, Cameroon, Niger, Kenya, and Tanzania
Research interests: African political and juridical discourse; African anthroponomy; language policy and language attitudes in Africa; pidgins and creoles; pragmatics of prosody; African languages documentation; evaluation and testing in African languages
indiana.eduPhone: 855-8284
Amadou Beidy Sow
Lecturer
Regional focus: Mali
Research interests: Education and political leadership
African-American and African Diaspora Studies
indiana.eduPhone: 855-3903
A.B. Assensoh
Professor emeritus
Regional focus: Africa and the US
Research interests: Comparative history; peace studies; African liberation and US civil rights; third world journalism
indiana.eduPhone: 855-2082
Audrey McCluskey
Professor
Research focus: South Africa, the US
Research interests: Women’s histories and biographies; women educators and activists; representations of African-Americans in the Jim Crow era
indiana.eduPhone: 855-6853
Iris Rosa
Professor
Director, Africa-American Dance Company
Regional focus: West Africa, the US, the Caribbean
Research interests: Modern dance; jazz and ethnic dance; traditional dances of the diasporas; teaching and choreography
indiana.eduPhone: 856-0585
John H. Stanfield II
Professor
Regional Focus: Sierra Leone, Brazil, South Africa, the US
Research interests: Comparative and historical studies of social scientific epistemologies, theories, methods, and program evaluation in multiracial societies, restorative justice policy solutions in multiracial institutions, communities, nations, and global regions
Anthropology
indiana.eduPhone: 855-0617
Beth Buggenhagen
Assistant Professor
Regional focus: Senegal, New York, Chicago
Research interests: Islam; gender; neoliberal global capital; visual and material culture; migration; ethnography; economic anthropology
indiana.eduPhone: 855-3866
Gracia Clark
Professor
Regional focus: Ghana
Research interests: ethnography; life stories; market life; gender; development; trade; family dynamics
indiana.eduPhone: 855-5396
Paula Girshick
Professor, emerita
Regional focus: Nigeria, South Africa
Research interests: Monuments, museums, and national identity; history and memory; politics of representation; the art market - collecting, selling, and exhibiting
indiana.eduPhone: 855-3857
Kevin Hunt
Professor
Regional focus: Tanzania, Uganda
Research interests: human paleontology; chimpanzee anatomy; ecology and behavior
indiana.eduPhone: 855-9360/855-7568
Kathy Schick
Professor
Regional focus: Ethiopia, Tanzania, Jordan, China
Research interests: Old World prehistory; human evolution, culture, and technology; lithic technology; experimental archaeology
indiana.eduPhone: 855-5395
Jeanne Sept
Professor
Regional focus: Kenya, Tanzania, Sudan, Congo, Cote d’Ivoire
Research interests: African prehistory; paleoanthropology; primate ecology; paleoecology and plant foods
indiana.eduPhone: 855-8014
Beverly Stoeltje
Professor
Regional focus:Ghana
Research interests: performance; ritual; nationalism; gender; and anthropology of law
Apparel Merchandising and Interior Design
indiana.eduPhone: 855-5395
Heather Akou
Associate Professor
Regional focus: Mali, Somalia
Research interests: textile analysis, design, and product development; Africa and African Diaspora; socio-cultural textiles and apparel; non-western histories of dress; migration and globalization; fashion theory and symbolic interaction
Applied Health Science
indiana.edu
Phone: 856-5101
David Lohrmann
Professor
Regional focus: Ghana, Jamaica, Bahamas, Mexico, Austria, Germany, France, Australia
Research interests: School health, secondary school health education and coordinated school health programs
indiana.edu
Phone: 855-3627
Beth Meyerson
Assistant Professor
Regional focus: Kenya, Nigeria, Botswana, India, Russia, and the Caribbean
Research interests: Structural barriers to health or disease prevention; health policy capacties in communites and among health professionals; social constructions of and by health policy target populations; HIV testing experiences
indiana.edu
Phone: 856-5768
Susan Middlestadt
Associate Professor
Regional focus: Mali, East Africa
Research interests: Public health; sexual health; health communication
indiana.eduPhone: 856-0502
Cecilia Obeng
Associate Professor
Regional focus: Ghana
Research interests:pre-school health; role of the family in the development of children; culture, care, and child health
indiana.eduPhone: 855-0068
Michael Reece
Associate Professor
Regional focus: Kenya, Uganda, South Africa
Research interests:sexual health and behaviors; HIV/AIDS education and prevention; health care management
indiana.eduPhone: 855-4808
Mohammad Torabi
Professor
Regional focus:Ghana, Kenya, Thailand
Research interests:measurement and evaluation of school and public health education programs and factors associated with health behavior; health promotion and key factors related to individuals’ decisions in the prevention of drug abuse, cancer, HIV/AIDS infection
Art Museum
indiana.eduPhone: 855-1036
Diane Pelrine
Associate Director for Curatorial Services; Curator of the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas
Regional focus:Eastern Africa, Cameroon
Research interests:visual arts of Eastern Africa; African crafts
Business
indiana.eduPhone: 855-0653
Dawn New
Lecturer
Regional focus:South Africa, Botswana
Research interests:business communication; organizational communication
Communication and Culture
indiana.eduPhone: 855-3232
Jane Goodman
Associate Professor
Regional focus:Algeria, Tunisia, France
Research interests:language and performance; colonialism; textuality and discourse
indiana.eduPhone: 855-6427
Michael Martin
Professor; Director, Black Film Center/Archive
Regional focus:West Africa, Diasporas in Latin America
Research interests:postcolonial metropolitan and African cinemas; Diasporic cinemas; redress social movements; transnational migration
Comparative Literature
indiana.eduPhone: 855-7935
Akin Adesokan
Associate Professor
Regional focus: Nigeria
Research interests: African and African Diaspora literatures and cultures; global postcoloniality; African cinema and contemporary global cinemas; postcolonial intellectual history; nonfictional prose; and literary and cultural theory
indiana.eduPhone: 855-0500
Vivian Halloran
Associate Professor
Regional focus: Caribbean
Research interests: Caribbean, ethnic American, postcolonial literatures
indiana.eduPhone: 855-8432
Eileen Julien
Professor
Regional focus: Senegal, West Africa, Paris, New Orleans
Research interests: literatures of Africa; the Diaspora; the novel; feminism
Computer Science
indiana.eduPhone: 855-7078
Michael Gasser
Associate Professor, emeritus
Regional focus: Ethiopia
Research interests: language acquisition; computational linguistics; artificial intelligence
Education
indiana.eduPhone: 856-8110
Erna Alant
Professor
Regional focus: South Africa
Research interests: development of communication systems for people who have no or little speech within poverty contexts; speech-language pathology
indiana.eduPhone: 856-8272
Martha Nyikos
Associate Professor
Regional focus: Cameroon, Senegal, Azerbaijan
Research interests: cognitive and socialization factors in language learning and strategies of foreign language students; collaboration; constructivist approaches and resistance factors in teacher development
indiana.eduPhone: 856-8256
Beth Samuelson
Assistant Professor
Regional focus: Rwanda
Research interests: literacy, culture, and language education
indiana.eduPhone: 856-8368
Margaret Sutton
Assistant Professor
Regional focus: Zambia, Malawi, Asia
Research interests: comparative international education policy; gender and education; research methods in education
Epidemiology and Biostatistics
indiana.edu
Phone: 855-0794
Shingairai Feresu
Associate Professor
Regional focus: Zimbabwe
Research interests: Etiologic studies in perinatal/pediatric/reproductive epidemiology; issues related to birth out comes; issues related to women health in pregnancy
indiana.edu
Phone: 855-4738
Barbara Van Der Pol
Associate Professor
Regional focus: Kenya
Research interests: Sexually transmitted infections; reproductive health in women
indiana.edu
Phone: 856-6782
Ahmed YoussefAgha
Assistant Professor
Regional focus: Egypt, Sudan, Ethiopia, Libya
Research interests: Integration of biostatistics, decision analysis techniques, and computer sciences for researches in public health
Fine Arts
indiana.eduPhone: 855-2548
Patrick McNaughton
Chancellor’s Professor
Regional focus: Mali, Tanzania, Cameroon
Research interests: art and entrepreneurial connections across historical West Africa; social relevance of aesthetics and form; nature of meaning and its uses
Folklore and Ethnomusicology
indiana.eduPhone: 855-4258
Mellonee Burnim
Professor
Regional focus: Malawi, Liberia, the US
Research interests: Black religious music and aesthetics; music in the African Diaspora
indiana.eduPhone: 855-4124
Hasan El-Shamy
Professor
Regional focus: Egypt, the Middle East
Research interests: North African influence on the art and folklore of Sub-Saharan Africa
indiana.eduPhone: 855-0387
John W. Johnson
Associate Professor, emeritus
Regional focus: Mali, Somalia
Research interests: Mande epic poetry; Somali oral poetry
indiana.eduPhone: 855-2708
Portia K. Maultsby
Professor
Regional focus: the US, Zimbabwe, Nigeria, Ghana
Research interests: African-American popular music; globalization; African-American music in Africa and the Diaspora
indiana.eduPhone: 855-2535
Daniel Reed
Associate Professor
Regional focus: Cote d’Ivoire
Research interests: African music and expressive culture; transformations in African music; music performance and identity; music and religion
indiana.eduPhone: 855-0398
Ruth Stone
Professor; Vice Provost for Research
Regional focus: Liberia, West Africa
Research interests: ethnomusicology; issues of time; folklore; indigenous theories of music
indiana.eduPhone: 856-0782
Verlon Stone
Project Coordinator, Liberian Collections
Regional focus: Liberia
Research interests: user-friendly graphic user interfaces; technological media in ethnographic research; Liberian perception and interpretation of entertainment films
Geological Sciences
indiana.eduPhone: 856-3170
Jackson Njau
Assistant Professor
Regional focus: Kenya
Research interests: vertebrate taphonomy and paleoenvironments of African hominins
History
indiana.eduPhone: 855-3928
Claude Clegg
Professor
Regional focus: Liberia, Sierra Leone, Atlantic world
Research interests: The African Diaspora of the Atlantic world; Social movements; African Americans in the U.S. South; Emigration to Liberia from the US South
indiana.eduPhone: 855-5212
John Hanson
Associate Professor
Regional focus: Mali, Senegal, Ghana, West Africa
Research interests: African Muslim societies in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; religion in Africa; social and cultural history; Arabic texts; memory
indiana.eduPhone: 855-7504
Alex Lichtenstein
Associate Professor
Regional focus: South Africa; the US
Research interests: labor history and the struggle for racial justice in societies shaped by white supremacy
indiana.eduPhone: 855-1320
Pedro Machado
Assistant Professor
Regional focus: Indian Ocean, South Africa; Mozambique; India
Research interests: world history, ocean histories, slavery and trade networks
indiana.eduPhone: 855-5384
Marissa Moorman
Associate Professor
Regional focus: Angola, Southern Africa
Research interests: intersections between politics and culture in colonial and independent Angola; music, media, gender, and nationhood in historical and contemporary Africa
indiana.eduPhone: 856-4787
Michelle Moyd
Assistant Professor
Regional focus:Tanzania, Uganda, East Africa
Research interests: African military history; social and cultural history of colonial armies; German colonialism in Africa; gender and warfare
indiana.eduPhone: 855-6882
Edward Watts
Professor
Regional focus:Mediterranean world; Egypt; Tunisia
Research interests: religious, social, and intellectual history of the ancient Mediterranean
Institute for Digital Arts and Humanities
indiana.eduPhone: 855-0969
Clara Henderson
Associate Director
Regional focus:Malawi, Nigeria
Research interests: anthropology of dance; dance, music and religion; ethnographic film; history of ethnomusicology; ethnomusicological research
International Programs
indiana.eduPhone: 855-2072
Patrick O’Meara
Chair, Center for International Education and Development Assistance; Special Advisor to the President
Regional focus:South Africa, Southern Africa
Research interests: comparative development; political philosophy; international education
indiana.eduPhone: 855-0756
Brian Winchester
Founding Director,Center for the Study of Global Change
Regional focus: Ghana, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Great Britain
Research interests: comparative politics and development; globalization
Journalism
indiana.eduPhone: 855-0550
Bonnie Brownlee
Associate Dean
Regional focus: Nigeria, Latin America
Research interests: Press coverage of Africa; international communication; media portrayal of global issue
indiana.eduPhone: 855-9247
James Kelly
Associate Professor
Regional focus: Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania
Research interests: photojournalism; visual communication; publication design; informational graphics; new communication technology
Law
indiana.eduPhone:855-6145
Kevin D. Brown
Professor
Regional focus: Ghana, the US
Research interests: race, law, and education
indiana.edu
Phone: 856-0434
Jayanth Krishnan
Professor
Regional focus: Ghana; Nigeria; United States; India; Brazil; China
Research interests: The legal profession; the behavior of lawyers; law and globalization; legal education; immigration; property law
indiana.edu
Phone: 856-1516
Christiana Ochoa
Professor
Regional focus: DRC: Colombia; Brazil; Nicaragua; Latin America
Research interests: Global governance; human rights
indiana.eduPhone:855-6793
David Williams
Professor
Regional focus: Liberia
Research interests: constitutional law; Liberian constitution revision; Native American
Library
indiana.edu
Phone: 855-1127
Philip C. Bantin
University Archivist
Regional focus: Liberia
Research interests: Archives; records management; electronic archives
indiana.eduPhone:855-1481
Marion Frank-Wilson
African Studies Librarian
Regional focus: Uganda, Nigeria, Zimbabwe, South Africa
Research interests: African literature; travel writing by Africans; bibliography; African crime novels
Linguistics
indiana.eduPhone:855-0388
Robert Botne
Professor
Regional focus: Gabon, Rwanda, Malawi
Research interests: Bantu, tense/aspect/modality systems, morphology, comparative linguistics, lexical semantics of verbs
indiana.eduPhone:855-2043
Stuart Davis
Professor
Regional focus:Egypt
Research interests: Semitic languages
indiana.edu
Phone: 856-1307
Ken de Jong
Professor
Regional focus: Ghana
Research interests: Akan (Twi)
indiana.edu
Phone: 855-8284/855-8199
Samel Obeng
Professor
Director, African Studies Program
Regional focus: West and East Africa: Ghana, Cameroon, Niger, Kenya, and Tanzania
Research interests: African political and juridical discourse; African anthroponomy; language policy and language attitudes in Africa; pidgins and creoles; pragmatics of prosody; African languages documentation; evaluation and testing in African languages
indiana.eduPhone:855-3323
Alwiya Omar
Clinical Professor; Coordinator, African Languages Program
Regional focus: Tanzania, East Africa
Research interests: computer assisted language learning; second-language acquisition; Kiswahili and cross-cultural pragmatics; study abroad language programs
indiana.edu
Phone: 856-3669
Antonia Schleicher
Director, US National African Language Resource Center
Regional focus: West Africa, Nigeria, Mali, Niger, Cameroon
Research interests: Pedagogical issues in foreign and second language acquisition; theory and practice of teaching African languages; structure and analysis of African languages
Near Eastern Languages and Cultures
indiana.eduPhone:855-8555
Salman Al-Ani
Professor
Regional focus: Arabic North Africa
Research interests: Arabic linguistics with a special emphasis on phonetics, phonology, morphology and syntax; teaching Arabic as a second language with the application of Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL); translation
indiana.eduPhone:856-8372
Zaineb Istrabadi
Senior Lecturer
Regional focus: Arabic North Africa and the Middle East
Research interests: teaching Arabic as a second language; interfaith dialogues; community outreach; Sufism
indiana.eduPhone:855-8722
Suzanne Stetkevych
Professor
Regional focus: Egypt, Tunisia, Jordan
Research interests: classical Arabic poetry, ritual, performance, and historicist approaches to the Qasidah; praise poetry to the Prophet
Optometry
indiana.edu
Phone: 855-9340
Rowan Candy
Associate Professor
Regional focus:
Research interests: Normal and abnormal visual development in human infants
indiana.edu
Phone: 856-1500
Ann Elsner
Professor
Regional focus:
Research interests: Age-related macular disease; spectral imaging of the area of internal limiting membrane peeling
indiana.edu
Phone: 856-4631
Jane Grogg
Clinical Associate Professor
Regional focus:
Research interests: Ocular disease; applied ocular therapeutics; glaucoma
indiana.edu
Phone: 855-4387
Patricia Henderson
Clinical Associate Professor
Regional focus:
Research interests: Ocular disease; neuro-optometry; ocular disease pharmacology
indiana.eduPhone:855-9105
Douglas Horner
Associate Professor
Regional focus: South Africa
Research interests: myopia control; remediation; quantitative aspects of corneal shape
indiana.edu
Phone: 855-1929
Kimberly Kohne
Clinical Assistant Professor
Regional focus:
Research interests: Clinical optometry
indiana.edu
Phone: 856-0108
Peter Kollbaum
Assistant Professor
Regional focus:
Research interests: Clinical optometry
indiana.edu
Phone: 856-1964
Don Lyon
Clinical Associate Professor
Regional focus:
Research interests: Correction of Myopia
indiana.edu
Phone: 855-5941
Victor Malinovsky
Clinical Associate Professor
Regional focus:
Research interests: Clinical optometry; residency rotations; ocular disease
indiana.eduPhone:855-8436
Todd Peabody
Assistant Clinical Professor
Regional focus: Ghana, Kuwait
Research interests: clinical practice in visual analysis, patient care, and optometric procedures
indiana.edu
Phone: 856-3815
Jeffrey Perotti
Clinical Assistant Professor
Regional focus:
Research interests: Clinical optometry
indiana.edu
Phone: 317-278-5974
Melanie Pickett
Clinical Assistant Professor
Regional focus:
Research interests: Glaucoma and ocular blood flow; dry eye
indiana.edu
Phone: 856-0124
Nicholas Port
Assistant Professor
Regional focus:
Research interests: Visual-saccadic system as a model for how the nervous system processes sensory information and produces action
indiana.edu
Phone: 855-7777
Suresh Viswanathan
Assistant Professor
Regional focus:
Research interests: Visual electrophysiology; glaucoma; optic neuropathies
Political Science
indiana.eduPhone:856-2376
Lauren M. MacLean
Associate Professor
Regional focus: Ghana, Cote d’Ivoire
Research interests: comparative political economy and public policy, with a focus on the politics of state formation, social welfare, and citizenship in Africa and the U.S.
indiana.eduPhone:856-0243
Amos Sawyer
Research Scholar; Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis
Regional focus: Liberia, Guinea, Sierra Leone, West Africa
Research interests: peace building and security in Africa, governance and democratization in West Africa, conflict management in Liberia and West Africa
School of Public and Environmental Affairs
indiana.eduPhone:855-0749
Osita Afoaku
Clinical Professor
Regional focus: Nigeria, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Research interests: Human rights; sustainable development; democratization and state reconstruction in Africa; U.S.-African/Third World relations; UN Security Council reform
indiana.eduPhone:855-5971
Jennifer Brass
Assistant Professor
Regional focus: Kenya, Djibouti
Research interests: African politics; non-governmental organizations; energy and international development; comparative public administration; governance; civil society; political economy of development
indiana.edu
Phone: 855-7980
Ann Marie Thomson
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Regional focus: DRC
Research interests: International development; nongovermental organizations
indiana.eduPhone:855-7980
Henry Wakhungu
Senior Lecturer
Regional focus: Kenya, Nigeria
Research interests: development of growth simulation models for sustainable management of indigenous community forests; experimental designs in tropical forestry research; service-learning researcht
Spanish and Portuguese
indiana.eduPhone:856-1061
Luciana Namorato
Associate Professor
Regional focus:Lusophone world
Research interests: twentieth and twenty-first century Brazilian literature; contermporary Latin American narrative; gender studies
indiana.eduPhone:856-1061
Darlene Sadlier
Professor
Regional focus:Brazil; Lusophone Africa
Research interests: Lusophone literatures and cultures; Latin American cinema; Gender studies
Telecommunications
indiana.eduPhone:856-2460
Elizabeth Gabe
Professor
Regional focus:South Africa, the US
Research interests: experimental research in the information processing area: Tabloid news, differences between new and traditional media, and gender and social class of the audience content analysis of mostly news narratives: crime and politics
Theatre and Drama
indiana.eduPhone: 855-7052
Murray McGibbon
Associate Professor
Regional focus:South Africa, Swaziland, Namibia
Research interests: theater production and direction; post-apartheid South African drama
