Faculty Directory
African Studies | College of Arts and Sciences | American Studies | Anthropology | Biology | Comparative Literature | Folklore and Ethnomusicology | French and Italian | Gender Studies | Geography | Geological Sciences | Global Living-Learning Center | History | Human Biology | Linguistics | Political Science | Spanish and Portuguese | Theatre, Drama, and Contemporary Dance | Professional Schools | IU Kelley School of Business | IU Maurer School of Law | School of Education | School of Art, Architecture and Design | Apparel Merchandising and Interior Design | School of Education | School of Global and International Studies | International Studies | Near Eastern Languages and Cultures | IU Jacobs School of Music | School of Optometry | School of Public and Environmental Affairs | School of Public Health | The Media School | Libraries and Museums
AFRICAN STUDIES PROGRAM, School of Global and International Studies

Phone: (812) 855-7587
John Hanson
Director
Professor of History
Research and Teaching Interests: Religious imagination and social initiatives of Muslims in western Africa; Sufi movements in nineteenth century Mali and Senegal; historical transformations in Africa (pre-colonial and colonial); historical methods
Regional expertise: Ghana; Senegal; Mali

Phone: (812) 855-5081
Tavy Aherne
Associate Director
Adjunct Faculty, Art History
Research and Teaching interests: Fulbhe and Bamana arts, artists and aesthetic systems; African textiles; artists as activists; African film and photography; post-colonial theory; museum studies; teaching pedagogies.
Regional expertise: Guinea, Mali, Ghana, Senegal, Nigeria, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Phone: (812) 855-3323
Alwiya Omar
Clinical Professor, Kiswahili
African Languages Coordinator
Research and Teaching Interests: Kiswahili language and culture; Pragmatics, and Second language Acquisition.
Regional expertise: Tanzania

Phone: (812) 856-4191
Antonia Schleicher
Professor
Director, National African Language Resource Center
Research and Teaching Interests: Yoruba language; African language materials development; theory and practice of African language teaching; language evaluation
Regional expertise: Nigeria

Phone: (812) 857-3665
David Adu-Amankwah
Senior Lecturer, Akan/Twi
Research and Teaching Interests: Akan language; verbal arts; Ghanaian humor; ethnopragmatics
Regional expertise: Ghana

Phone: (812) 855-7666
Betty Dlamini
Senior Lecturer, Zulu
Research and Teaching Interests: Zulu language; South African song and dance; drama for development
Regional expertise: South Africa; Swaziland

Phone: (812) 855-6786
Amadou Beidy Sow
Lecturer, Bamana
Research and Teaching Interests: Bamana language; culture in Mali; political leadership.
Regional expertise: Mali
Affiliate Faculty: College of Arts and Sciences
American Studies

Phone: (812) 856-5653
Vivian Halloran
Associate Professor
Research and Teaching Interests: Caribbean literature; interconnections between art, history, literature and performance; depictions of slavery in literature and museums; national and cultural identities; food and cultural memory.
Anthropology

Phone: (812) 855-0617
Beth Buggenhagen
Associate Professor
Research and Teaching Interests: circulation and value; material and visual culture; photography; gender and Islam; Senegalese diaspora in the U.S.
Regional expertise: Senegal
Regional expertise: Senegal

Phone: (812) 855-7516
Jane Goodman
Associate Professor
Research and Teaching Interests: performance and civic life; intertextuality; colonial and postcolonial formations; theater, music, and poetry; Algerian diaspora in France.
Regional expertise: Algeria

Phone: (812) 855-3857
Kevin Hunt
Professor
Director, Human Origins and Primate Evolution Lab
Research and Teaching Interests: functional morphology and ecology of hominids and apes.
Regional expertise: Tanzania; Uganda

Phone: (812) 855-0871
Sarah Osterhoudt
Assistant Professor
Research and Teaching Interests: environmental anthropology; agrarian studies; agro-ecological systems; political ecology; trade and development; anthropology of knowledge
Regional expertise: Madagascar

Phone: (812) 855-5395
Jeanne Sept
Professor
Research and Teaching Interests: archeology; human evolution; paleoecology; primate ecology and diet.
Regional expertise: Kenya; eastern Democratic Republic of Congo; Tanzania; South Africa; Côte d’Ivoire

Phone: (812) 855-7736
Michael D. Wasserman
Assistant Professor
Research and Teaching Interests: Primate ecology and evolution; environmental endocrinology, conservation biology and sustainability; evolutionary medicine and EcoHealth; nutrional anthropology.
Regional expertise: Uganda
Biology

Phone: (812) 855-7116
Whitney Schlegel
Associate Professor, Center for the Integrative Study of Animal Behavior, AMPATH Advisor, Advisor for Medical School Exchange with Moi University
Research and Teaching interests: Chronic disease and food systems,
human pathology, human physiology, comparative animal physiology,
captive management of animals.
Regional expertise: Kenya
Comparative Literature

Phone: (812) 855-7935
Akin Adesokan
Associate Professor (joint appointment with Media School)
Research and Teaching interests: Twentieth and twenty-first century African and African American/African Diaspora literatures and cultures; global postcoloniality; African cinema and contemporary global cinemas; postcolonial intellectual history; nonfictional prose; literary and cultural theory.
Regional expertise: Nigeria

Phone: (812) 855-5083
Eileen Julien
Professor (joint appointment with French and Italian)
Research and Teaching interests: Connections between Africa, Europe, and North America; postcolonial studies; African resources (e.g., oral traditions) and their relationship to ‘global’ forms, such as the novel; intellectual significance of Paris (and, more generally, of travel) for black identities; gender in relation to diaspora longing, national identity, and narrative form.
Regional expertise:Senegal; Cameroon
Folklore and Ethnomusicology

Phone: (812) 855-2535
Daniel Reed
Associate Professor
Research and Teaching interests: Music and religion; mask performance; ritual; identity; popular music; immigration; transnationalism; diaspora; music and health; Ivorian immigrants in the U.S.
Regional expertise: Côte d’Ivoire; Mali; Guinée
French and Italian

Phone: (812) 855-2549
Vincent Bouchard
Assistant Professor
Research and Teaching Interests: media (literature, cinema, telephone, radio, internet) and cultural studies (popular cultures, reception); audio-visual mediation of orality (speech, gesture); Francophone cultures in Africa and North America.
Regional expertise: Burkina Faso; Senegal

Phone: (812) 855-5083
Eileen Julien
Professor (joint appointment with Comparative Literature)
Research and Teaching interests: Connections between Africa, Europe, and North America; postcolonial studies; African resources (e.g., oral traditions) and their relationship to ‘global’ forms, such as the novel; intellectual significance of Paris (and, more generally, of travel) for black identities; gender in relation to diaspora longing, national identity, and narrative form.
Regional expertise:Senegal; Cameroon

Phone: (812) 855-1134
Oana Panaïté
Associate Professor
Research and Teaching Interests: Twentieth and twenty-first century French-language writing in France, the Caribbean, North Africa, and Sub-Saharan Africa; literary theory; the poetics and politics of fiction; postcolonial and transfrontier approaches to literature.
Gender Studies

Phone: (812) 855-6977
Laura Foster
Assistant Professor
Research and Teaching Interests: Feminist postcolonial science studies; feminist science studies; science and technology studies; feminist and critical race legal theory; transnational/postcolonial feminisms; feminist research methodologies; human rights and intellectual property law.
Regional expertise:South Africa
Geography

Phone: (812) 856-2847
Elizabeth Dunn
Associate Professor
Research and Teaching Interests: Humanitarianism and displacement; refugees and internally displaced people; ethnic conflict; state formation; Congolese refugees in the US.

Phone: (812) 856-4587
Tom Evans
Professor
Research and Teaching Interests: Human-environment interactions; agricultural decision-making; water governance; GIS / spatial modeling.
Regional expertise: Kenya; Zambia
Geological Sciences

Phone: (812) 856-3170
Jackson Njau
Assistant Professor
Research and Teaching interests: Paleolandscapes and paleoenvironmental contexts of hominid evolution.
Regional expertise: Tanzania
Global Living-Learning Center

Phone: (812) 855-4264
Vera Marinova
Associate Director, Global Living-Learning Center;
Director, Books & Beyond.
Research and Teaching interests: International service learning.
Regional expertise: Rwanda; Uganda
History

Phone: (812) 855-5212
John Hanson
Professor
Director, African Studies Program
Research and Teaching Interests: Religious imagination and social initiatives of Muslims in western Africa; Sufi movements in nineteenth century Mali and Senegal; historical transformations in Africa (pre-colonial and colonial); historical methods
Regional expertise: Ghana; Senegal; Mali

Phone: (812) 855-7504
Alex Lichtenstein
Professor
Regional focus: South Africa; the US
Research and Teaching interests: Intersection of labor history and the struggle for racial justice in the U.S. South and twentieth century South Africa; South African labor relations and the state; civil rights.
Regional expertise: South Africa

Phone: (812) 855-1320
Pedro Machado
Associate Professor
Research interests: Historical intersections of western India and southeastern Africa in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; histories of Indian Ocean pearl fisheries; history of eucalyptus within the Portuguese Empire’s Atlantic and Indian Ocean spheres.
Regional expertise: South Africa; Mozambique

Phone: (812) 855-5384
Marissa Moorman
Associate Professor
Research and Teaching interests: Popular cultural practices and politics; gender, sexuality, Africa and nation; relationship between the technology of radio and the shifting politics of southern Africa.
Regional expertise: Angola; South Africa; Zimbabwe

Phone: (812) 856-4787
Michelle Moyd
Associate Professor
Research and Teaching interests: Histories of conflict, militarization, and humanitarianism; history of World War I and its aftermaths; labor history.
Regional expertise:Tanzania; Kenya; Uganda
Human Biology

Phone: (812) 855-7736
Michael D. Wasserman
Assistant Professor
Research and Teaching Interests: Primate ecology and evolution; environmental endocrinology, conservation biology and sustainability; evolutionary medicine and EcoHealth; nutrional anthropology.
Regional expertise: Uganda
Linguistics

Phone: (812) 855-0388
Robert Botne
Professor
Department Chair
Research and Teaching interests: Bantu languages; tense/aspect/modality systems, morphology, comparative linguistics, lexical semantics of verbs.
Regional expertise: Malawi

Phone: (812) 855-2043
Stuart Davis
Professor
Research and Teaching interests: Phonology; Semitic linguistics; African American English; general linguistics.

Phone: (812) 855-8199
Samuel Obeng
Professor
Research and Teaching interests: African languages, especially endangered languages; political discourse analysis; the politics about languages in Africa; multilingualism and language contact, pragmatics of prosody, ethnopragmatics.
Regional expertise: Ghana
Political Science

Phone: (812) 855-6308
Cyanne E. Loyle
Assistant Professor
Research and Teaching interests: Transitional justice adopted both during and after armed conflict and the strategic use of justice processes in Rwanda and Uganda.
Regional expertise: Rwanda, Uganda, Burundi, the Democratic Republic of Congo

Phone: (812) 856-2376
Lauren M. MacLean
Professor
Research and Teaching interests: Comparative political economy and public policy, with focus on the politics of state formation, public goods provision, and citizenship in Africa and the U.S.
Regional expertise: Ghana; Côte d’Ivoire; Kenya; Uganda
Spanish and Portuguese

Phone: (812) 856-1061
Luciana Namorato
Associate Professor
Director of the Portuguese Program
Research and Teaching interests: Transatlantic Luso-Brazilian Studies; twentieth and twenty-first century Brazilian literature; contemporary Latin American narrative.

Phone: (812) 855-6143
Estela Vieira
Associate Professor
Research and Teaching Interests: Portuguese and Brazilian literatures and cultures; comparative Lusophone and Hispanic studies.
Theatre, Drama, and Contemporary Dance

Phone: (812) 855-7052
Murray McGibbon
Associate Professor
Research and Teaching interests: Acting and directing
Regional expertise: South Africa
Affiliate Faculty: Professional Schools
IU JACOBS SCHOOL OF MUSIC

Phone: (812) 856-7112
Kimberly Carballo
Instructor and Coordinating Opera Coach
Member of Tunaweza Kimuzikia project promoting exchange among educators, scholars, and performers in Kenya and the U.S.
IU KELLEY SCHOOL OF BUSINESS

Phone: (812) 855-2763
Clark Barwick
Senior Lecturer
Research and Teaching Interests: Literary criticism and cultural history; African American literature; racial politics of cultural memory.

Phone: (812) 855-2763
Greg Fisher
Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship
Research and Teaching Interests: Entrepreneurship; business strategy; corporate entrepreneurship and turn-around management.
Regional expertise: South Africa

Phone: (317) 274-2481
Philip Powell
Clinical Associate Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy
Faculty Chair, Kelley Direct MBA and MS programs
Research and Teaching Interests: International management; global consulting; economic foundations; managerial economics and macroeconomics; healthcare economics and business strategies.
Regional expertise: South Africa; Botswana

Phone: (812) 856-5069
Jamie Prenkert
Associate Professor of Business Law
Research and Teaching Interests: Employment discrimination; retaliation protections; business and human rights; governance approaches to transnational business and legal issues; marketing law and commercial speech.
Regional expertise: South Africa

Phone: (812) 855-5701
Fred Schlegel
Lecturer, Management and Entrepreneurship
Research and Teaching Interests: International business; strategic planning; management of technology and innovation.
Regional expertise: Ghana; Kenya; South Africa
IU MAURER SCHOOL OF LAW

Phone: (812) 855-6145
Kevin D. Brown
Richards S. Melvin Professor
Research and Teaching interests: Law and education; race, American society, and the law; torts and criminal law.
Regional expertise: Ghana; South Africa

Phone: (812) 855-6793
David Williams
John S. Hastings Professor
Executive Director, Center for Constitutional Democracy
Research and Teaching interests: Constitutional design; Native American law; constitutional treatment of difference; relationship between constitutionalism and political violence.
Regional expertise: Liberia; South Sudan

Phone: (812) 855-6319
Susan Williams
Walter W. Foskett Professor
Director, Center for Constitutional Democracy
Research and Teaching Interests: Comparative constitutional law; feminist jurisprudence; property law.
Regional expertise: Liberia; South Sudan
SCHOOL OF ART, ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN
Apparel Merchandising and Interior Design

Phone: (812) 855-5395
Heather Akou
Associate Professor
Research and Teaching 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
Regional expertise: Mali
SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

Phone: (812) 856-8110
Erna Alant
Professor, Curriculum and Instruction
Otting Chair in Special Education
Research and Teaching interests: Augmentative and alternative communication for persons with developmental and intellectual disabilities.
Regional expertise: South Africa

Phone: (812) 856-8142
Barbara Dennis
Associate Professor, Counseling and Educational Psychology
Research and Teaching Interests: Complexities of diversity; pragmatic theory of care; theories of identity and their connection to methodological theory.
Regional expertise: Uganda

Phone: (812) 855-0172
Patricia Kubow
Professor, Educational Leadership and Policy Studies
Director, Center for International Education, Development and Research
Research and Teaching Interests: Democratic citizenship education in comparative, international, and cross-cultural contexts.
Regional expertise: South Africa

Phone: (812) 856-8272
Martha Nyikos
Associate Professor
Research and Teaching interests: cognitive and socialization factors in language learning and strategies of foreign language students; collaboration; constructivist approaches and resistance factors in teacher development
Regional expertise: Cameroon; Senegal; Azerbaijan

Phone: (812) 856-8256
Beth Samuelson
Associate Professor, Literacy, Culture, and Language Education
Research and Teaching interests: Language awareness and the flows of English literacy practices across global boundaries; literacy theory; language learning and cross-cultural experience in non-Western contexts.
Regional expertise: Democratic Republic of Congo; Rwanda

Phone: (812) 856-8507
Laura L Stachowski
Director, Global Gateway for Teachers
Regional expertise: Kenya; Tanzania

Phone: (812) 856-8344
Rex Stockton
Chancellor’s Professor, Counselling and Educational Psychology
Research and Teaching Interests: Counseling and counselor training; counselor training and research related to HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa; group dynamics; human resource delivery systems.
Regional expertise: Botswana
SCHOOL OF GLOBAL AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES

Phone: (812) 855-5021
Patrick O'Meara
Special Advisor to the President
Professor Emeritus, Public and Environmental Affairs
Former Director, African Studies Program
Regional expertise: South Africa
International Studies

Phone: (812) 855-6281
Clémence Pinaud
Assistant Professor (PhD, History)
Research and Teaching Interests: gender and sexual violence; relationships between civilians and guerrilla groups; war and post-war economy; state-building processes.
Regional expertise: South Sudan; Ethiopia; Sierra Leone

Phone: (812) 856-7326
Jessica Steinberg
Assistant Professor (PhD, Political Science)
Research and Teaching Interests: Politics of natural resources; non-state goods provision; strategies of governance in regions of limited state presence; conflict events reporting.
Regional expertise: Mozambique; Democratic Republic of Congo; Zambia
Near Eastern Languages and Cultures

Phone: (812) 855-8555
Salman Al-Ani
Professor
Research and Teaching interests: Arabic Linguistics with special emphasis on phonetics, phonology, morphology, and syntax.

Phone: (812) 856-0372
Zaineb Istrabadi
Senior Lecturer, Arabic
Research and Teaching interests: Teaching Arabic as a second language; Sufism.

Phone: (812) 856-2400
Nader Morkus
Assistant Professor
Director of the Arabic Language Program
Research and Teaching Interests: Second language acquisition; discourse level analysis of the speech act of refusal in Egyptian Arabic; intercultural pragmatics and communication.

Phone: (812) 856-6736
Steve Vinson
Associate Professor
Research and Teaching Interests: Ancient Egyptian language and literature; history of Graeco-Roman Egypt; ancient Egyptian transportation and trade.
SCHOOL OF OPTOMETRY

Phone: (812) 856-1500
Ann Elsner
Professor
Research and Teaching interests: Retinal imaging and Retinal damage

Phone: (812) 856-1964
Don Lyon
Clinical Professor
Chief of Pediatric and Binocular Vision Service
Director of Residencies
Research and Teaching interests: Pediatric optometry; amblyopia; binocular vision disorders

Phone: (812)-855-0909
Todd Peabody
Clinical Associate Professor
Chief of Third Year Primary Care Services
Director of Continuing Education
Research and Teaching interests: Medical optometry; pre-clinic case analysis and communication and professional communication
SCHOOL OF PUBLIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL AFFAIRS

Phone: (812) 855-0749
Osita Afoaku
Clinical Professor
Research and Teaching interests: International and sustainable development; democratization; state reconstruction in Africa; U.S. and African / Third World relations; Islamist terrorism and the Nigerian state.
Regional expertise: Nigeria; Democratic Republic of the Congo

Phone: (812) 855-1460
Jennifer Brass
Associate Professor
Research and Teaching interests: African politics; non-governmental organizations; service provision, governance, and state development; energy and international development.
Regional expertise: Kenya; Uganda; Djibouti; Senegal

Phone: (812) 856-4647
Sameeksha Desai
Associate Professor
Associate Director, Institute for Development Strategies
Research and Teaching interests: Economic development; globalization and entrepreneurship; private sector development in conflict / postconflict recovery and political instability.
Regional expertise: Rwanda

Phone: (812) 855-2457
Sergio Fernandez
Associate Professor
Research and Teaching nterests: Public administration, organization theory, organizational behavior, governance, research methods.
Regional expertise: South Africa

Phone: (812) 855-9820
Henry Wakhungu
Senior Lecturer
Research and Teaching interests: Development of simulation models for sustainable management of indigenous community forests; experimental designs in tropical forestry research; service learning and classroom action research; statistical analysis.
Regional expertise: Kenya
SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH

Phone: (812) 856-5101
David K. Lohrmann
Professor and Chair
Research and Teaching Interests: School health promotion programs, school health education, alcohol, tobacco, and other drug abuse prevention.
Regional expertise: Ghana

Phone: (812) 855-3627
Beth Meyerson
Professor
Research and Teaching Interests: Public health policy and systems; policy behaviors (especially by public institutions) and their measurement.
Regional expertise: Kenya; Nigeria; Botswana

Phone: (812) 856-2767
Susan Middlestadt
Professor and Director of Graduate Education for Applied Health Sciences
Research and Teaching Interests: Design and evaluation of theory-based and empirically-grounded behavior programs; social and behavioral determinants of health.
Regional expertise: Mali; East Africa

Phone: (812) 856-0502
Cecilia Obeng
Associate Professor
Research and Teaching Interests: Breast-feeding and child health; pre-school children’s health; role of the family in child development; immigrant families’ health; culture and health.
Regional expertise: Ghana

Phone: (812) 856-7031
Oghenekaro Omodior
Assistant Professor
Research and Teaching Interests: Vector-borne emerging infectious diseases (VBEIDs) in the context of outdoor recreation, travel and tourism.
Regional expertise: Nigeria; Caribbean

Phone: (812) 855-0068
Michael Reece
Associate Professor
Associate Dean, School of Public Health
Research and Teaching Interests: sexual health and behaviors; HIV/AIDS education and prevention; health care management
Regional expertise: Kenya; Uganda; South Africa

Phone: (812) 855-4808
Mohammad Torabi
Chancellor's Professor
Research and Teaching Interests: Measurement and evaluation of school and public health education programs; factors associated with health behaviors; health promotion.
Regional expertise: Egypt

Phone: (812) 855-3085
Sara J. Young
Associate Professor
Research and Teaching Interests: Legal issues in recreation and sport settings related to risk management, program delivery, and participant conduct; using recreational sport to help solve community health issues for youth.
Regional expertise: Ghana
THE MEDIA SCHOOL, College of Arts and Sciences

Phone: (812) 855-7935
Akin Adesokan
Associate Professor (joint appointment with Media School)
Research and Teaching interests: Twentieth and twenty-first century African and African American/African Diaspora literatures and cultures; global postcoloniality; African cinema and contemporary global cinemas; postcolonial intellectual history; nonfictional prose; literary and cultural theory.
Regional expertise: Nigeria

Phone: (812) 856-2460
Betsi Grabe
Professor
Associate Dean
Research and Teaching interests: Mass media and communication; influence of visual content and message packaging on comprehension.
Regional expertise: South Africa

Phone: (812) 855-1708
James Kelly
Associate Professor of Journalism
Research and Teaching Interests: Influence of digital imaging technology on news photo credibility and audience understanding of photo journalism ethics; photojournalism; graphic communication and publication design; role of mass media in society; reporting of HIV/AIDS and health care.
Regional expertise: Kenya; Uganda; Tanzania; Ethiopia; Morocco

Phone: (812) 855-7631
Michael Martin
Professor of Cinema and Media Studies
Director, Black Film Center/Archive
Research and Teaching Interests: Diasporic and émigré cinematic formations; Latin, African, and postcolonial cinemas; transnational migration; documentary practice.
Regional expertise: Burkina Faso

Phone: (812) 855-1726
Esi Eduwaa Thompson
Assistant Professor
Research and Teaching Interests: Health risk and crisis communication; strategic communication, development communication.
Regional expertise: Ghana; South Africa
LIBRARIES AND MUSEUMS
Herman B. Wells Library

Phone: (812) 855-9296
Mireille Djenno
African Studies Librarian
Research interests: collection development; bibliography; African literature; comparative feminisms
Regional expertise: West Africa, Equatorial Africa

Phone: (812) 855-1481
Marion Frank-Wilson
Associate Dean for Collection Development and Archival Collections
Research interests: African literature; travel writing by Africans; bibliography; African crime novels
Regional expertise: Uganda, Nigeria, Zimbabwe, South Africa
Mathers Museum of World Cultures

Phone: (812) 855-3944
Ellen Sieber
Mathers Museum of World Cultures
Chief Curator; PhD, Art History
Regional expertise: Nigeria
