Maria Hamilton Abegunde

Assistant Professor, African American and African Diaspora Studies

Affiliate, Gender Studies

• maehamil@iu.edu
• (812) 855-0477

Research + Teaching Interests
Trans- and inter-generational memory, trauma, and healing in the African Diaspora; Yoruba traditional religious practices and ancestral traditions; poetry, poetics, and creative writing; the arts as a vehicle for community healing and transformation from trauma (the Transatlantic Slave Trade, the Middle Passage, lynching, genocide, sexual violence); black feminisms and womanism; birth work; contemplative practices and ritual as pedagogy/andragogy and methodology.

Regional Expertise
Nigeria, South Sudan (Juba), Brazil (Bahia)

Akin Adesokan

Associate Professor, Comparative Literature

Associate Professor, The Media School

Director, Black Film Center/Archive

• adesokan@indiana.edu
• (812) 855-7935

Research + 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

Osita Afoaku

Clinical Professor, O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs

• osafoaku@indiana.edu
• (812) 855-0749

Research + 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

Heather Akou

Associate Professor, Apparel Merchandising and Interior Design, Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture + Design

• hakou@indiana.edu
• (812) 855-5395

Research + 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

Salman Al-Ani

Professor, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures

• alani@indiana.edu
• (812) 855-8555

Research + Teaching Interests
Arabic linguistics with special emphasis on phonetics, phonology, morphology, and syntax

Regional Expertise
Morocco, Egypt

Issam Albdairat

Lecturer, Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures

Research + Teaching Interests
Arabic language and culture; sociolinguistic study of Arabic; teaching of Arabic as a second language

Regional Expertise
Morocco

Teshome Alemneh

Associate Vice President for International Research and Development, IU Global

• talemneh@iu.edu
• (812) 855-7012

Research + Teaching Interests
Executive Leadership in International Development; Earth sciences (soil sciences and land evaluation)

Regional Expertise
Ethiopia, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Rwanda, Senegal, South Africa, South Sudan, and Uganda.

Iman Alramadan

Lecturer, Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures

• imaalram@indiana.edu
• (812) 856-9167

Research + Teaching Interests
Teaching Arabic as a foreign language; Arabic grammar and morphology; Arabic literature; Language of Arabic science heritage; Medical terminology.

Regional Expertise
Morocco

Assad Alsaleh

Associate Professor, Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures

• alsaleha@indiana.edu

Research + Teaching Interests
Modern Arabic literature and culture, comparative literature and cultural studies, Arab Spring, autobiography, literary theory.

Regional Expertise
 

Clark Barwick

Senior Lecturer, Kelley School of Business

• mbarwick@indiana.edu
• (812) 855-2763

Research + Teaching Interests
literary criticism and cultural history; African American literature; racial politics of cultural memory

Stafford C. Berry, Jr.

Director, African American Dance Company

Professor of Practice, Theatre, Drama, and Contemporary Dance

Professor of Practice, African American and African Diaspora Studies

• berryst@iu.edu

Research + Teaching Interests
African-rooted dance and theater, and aesthetics

Regional Expertise
Guinea

Vincent Bouchard

Associate Professor, French and Italian

• vbouchar@indiana.edu
• (812) 855-2549

Research + 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

Jennifer Brass

Associate Professor, O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs

• brassj@indiana.edu
• (812) 855-1460

Research + Teaching Interests
African politics; non-governmental organizations; service provision, governance, and state development; energy and international development

Regional Expertise
Kenya; Uganda; Djibouti; Senegal

Kevin D. Brown

Richards S. Melvin Professor, Mauer School of Law

• brownkd@indiana.edu
• (812) 855-6145

Research + Teaching Interests
law and education; race, American society and the law; torts and criminal law

Regional Expertise
Ghana; South Africa

Beth Buggenhagen

Associate Professor, Anthropology

• babuggen@indiana.edu
• (812) 855-0617

Research + Teaching Interests
circulation and value; material and visual culture; photography; gender and Islam; Senegalese diaspora in the U.S.

Regional Expertise
Senegal

Kimberly Carballo

Instructor and Coordinating Opera Coach, Jacobs School of Music

• kcarball@indiana.edu
• (812) 856-7112

Member of Tunaweza Kimuzikia project promoting exchange among educators, scholars, and performers in Kenya and the U.S.

Regional expertise
Kenya

Elisheva Cohen

Director of International Education Programs and Outreach

• ellcohen@iu.edu
• (812) 856-3410

Research + Teaching Interests
Comparative and International Development Education; educational inclusion of minority students primarily in humanitarian settings; International Issues and Sustainable Development; global learning and curriculum internationalization

Regional Expertise
Egypt, Morocco; Jordan

Christina Collins

Assistant Professor, Anthropology

• collinct@iu.edu

Research + Teaching Interests
Anthropology and business; industry and industrialization in emerging markets; national economy; alcohol production, distribution, and consumption; science and technology studies (STS); anthropology of development

Regional Expertise
Ethiopia; Sub-Sahara Africa

Stuart Davis

Professor, Linguistics

• davis@indiana.edu
• (812) 855-2043

Research + Teaching Interests
phonology; semitic linguistics; African American English; general linguistics

Regional Expertise
North Africa

Barbara Dennis

Associate Professor, Counseling and Educational Psychology, School of Education

• bkdennis@indiana.edu
• (812) 856-8142

Research + Teaching Interests
complexities of diversity; pragmatic theory of care; theories of identity and their connection to methodological theory

Regional Expertise
Uganda

Sameeksha Desai

Associate Professor, O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs

Associate Director, Institute for Development Strategies, O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs

• desai@indiana.edu
• (812) 856-4647

Research + Teaching Interests
economic development; globalization and entrepreneurship; private sector development in conflict / post-conflict recovery and political instability

Regional Expertise
Rwanda

Elizabeth Cullen Dunn

Professor, Geography

• elcdunn@indiana.edu
• (812) 856-2847

Research + Teaching Interests
humanitarianism and displacement; refugees and internally displaced people; ethnic conflict; state formation; Congolese refugees in the U.S.

Regional Expertise
Democratic Republic of the Congo

Jon Eldon

Lecturer, O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs

• jeldon@iu.edu
• (812) 855-1179

Research + Teaching Interests
farmer adaptation; agricultural ecosystems; soil fertility management; rural livelihoods

Regional Expertise
Senegal; The Gambia

Temitope Erinosho

Associate Professor, Department of Applied Health Science

• toerin@iu.edu

Research + Teaching Interests
My research interest is obesity prevention in minority and under-served children and families through interventions that promote healthy eating and physical activity behaviors.

Regional Expertise
Nigeria

Sergio Fernandez

Associate Professor, O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs

• sefernan@indiana.edu
• (812) 855-2457

Research + Teaching Interests
public administration; organization theory; organizational behavior; governance; research methods

Regional Expertise
South Africa

Greg Fisher

Assistant Professor, Entrepreneurship, Kelley School of Business

• fisherg@indiana.edu
• (812) 855-2763

Research + Teaching Interests
entrepreneurship; business strategy; corporate entrepreneurship and turn-around management

Regional Expertise
South Africa

Laura Foster

Associate Professor, Gender Studies

• fosterl@indiana.edu
• (812) 855-6977

Research + 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

Marion Frank-Wilson

Associate Dean, Collection Development and Archival Collections, Herman B Wells Library

• mfrankwi@indiana.edu
• (812) 855-1481

Research Interests
African literature; travel writing by Africans; bibliography; African crime novels

Regional Expertise
Uganda; Nigeria; Zimbabwe; South Africa

Jane Goodman

Associate Professor, Anthropology

• janegood@indiana.edu
• (812) 855-7516

Research + Teaching Interests
performance and civic life; intertextuality; colonial and postcolonial formations; theater, music, and poetry; Algerian diaspora in France

Regional Expertise
Algeria

Betsi Grabe

Professor, The Media School

Associate Dean, The Media School

• adesokan@indiana.edu
• (812) 855-7935

Research + Teaching Interests
mass media and communication; influence of visual content and message packaging on comprehension

Regional Expertise
South Africa

Elena Guzman

Assistant Professor of African American and African Diaspora Studies and Anthropology

• elguzman@indiana.edu

Research + Teaching Interests
African Diaspora Spirituality and Religion; Documentary & Experimental Film; Visual Anthropology; Critical Ethnography; Black Borders and Borderlands; Black Ritual Performance; Feminist Filmmaking; Sensory Ethnography; Black Feminist Anthropology

Regional Expertise
Haiti, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico

Vivian Halloran

Professor, American Studies

• vhallora@indiana.edu
• (812) 856-5653

Research + 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

Regional Expertise
Caribbean

Kevin Hunt

Professor, Anthropology

Director, Human Origins and Primate Evolution Lab

• kdhunt@indiana.edu
• (812) 855-3857

Research + Teaching Interests
functional morphology and ecology of hominids and apes

Regional Expertise
Tanzania; Uganda

James Kelly

Associate Professor, Journalism, The Media School

• kellyjd@indiana.edu
• (812) 855-1708

Research + 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

Patricia Kubow

Professor, Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, School of Education

Director, Center for International Education, Development and Research, School of Education

• pkubow@indiana.edu
• (812) 855-0172

Research + Teaching Interests
democratic citizenship education in comparative, international, and cross-cultural contexts

Regional Expertise
South Africa

Alex Lichtenstein

Professor, History

• lichtens@indiana.edu
• (812) 855-7504

Regional Focus
South Africa; the U.S.

Research + 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

Samson Lotven

Associate Director, Hamilton Lugar School Living-Learning Center

• slotven@iu.edu
• (812) 856-5351

Research + Teaching Interests
Linguistics (West African languages); description and analysis of undocumented languages as well as on community engagement in science.

Don Lyon

Clinical Professor, School of Optometry

Chief of Pediatric and Binocular Vision Service, School of Optometry

Director of Residencies, School of Optometry

• dwlyon@indiana.edu
• (812) 856-1964

Research + Teaching Interests
pediatric optometry; amblyopia; binocular vision disorders

Regional expertise
Rwanda

Pedro Machado

Associate Professor, History

• pmachado@indiana.edu
• (812) 855-1320

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

Lauren M. MacLean

Professor, Political Science

• macleanl@indiana.edu
• (812) 856-2376

Research + 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

Bárbero Martínez-Riuz

Associate Professor, Art History

Tanner-Opperman Chair in Honor of Roy Sieber

• bamart@iu.edu
• (812) 855-9556

Research + Teaching Interests
African and African diaspora art; aesthetics and culture; graphic writing systems; rock painting; Afro-Latin American and Caribbean visual culture, art and aesthetics; theories of the avant-garde; contemporary theory

Regional Expertise
West Africa; Central Africa; the Americas

Allison Martino

Laura and Raymond Wielgus Curator of the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and Indigenous Art of the Americas at Eskenazi Museum of Art

• martinoa@iu.edu

Regional Expertise
Ghana

Nader Morkus

Assistant Professor, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures

Director, Arabic Language Program, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures

• nmorkus@indiana.edu
• (812) 856-2400

Research + Teaching Interests
second language acquisition; discourse level analysis of the speech act of refusal in Egyptian Arabic; intercultural pragmatics and communication

Regional Expertise
Egypt

Luciana Namorato

Associate Professor, Spanish and Portuguese

Director, Portuguese Program

• lnamorat@indiana.edu
• (812) 856-1061

Research + Teaching Interests
transatlantic Luso-Brazilian Studies; twentieth and twenty-first century Brazilian literature; contemporary Latin American narrative

Regional Expertise
Brazil

Jackson Njau

Assistant Professor, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences

• jknjau@indiana.edu
• (812) 856-3170

Research + Teaching Interests
paleolandscapes and paleoenvironmental contexts of hominid evolution

Regional Expertise
Tanzania

Isak Nti-Asare

Associate Director, Cybersecurity and Global Policy Program

• intiasar@iu.edu
• (812) 856-4192

Research + Teaching Interests
Global Policy for Emerging Technology, AI Governance, Working toward inclusive digital transformation; Cybersecurity

Regional Expertise
Ghana; Tanzania

Martha Nyikos

Associate Professor, School of Education

• nyikos@indiana.edu
• (812) 856-8272

Research + 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

Cecilia Obeng

Associate Professor, School of Public Health

• cobeng@indiana.edu
• (812) 856-0502

Research + 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

Samuel Obeng

Professor, Linguistics

• sobeng@indiana.edu
• (812) 855-8199

Research + 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

Christiana Ochoa

Professor of Law and Class of 1950 Herman B Wells Endowed Professor

Academic Director, Indiana University Mexico Gateway

• cochoa@indiana.edu
• (812) 856-1516

Research + Teaching Interests
how economic activity impacts human and ecological well-being; international and comparative law, particularly in the fields of Business & Human Rights, Law & Development, International Finance, and Foreign Direct Investment

Regional Expertise
South Africa

Sarah Osterhoudt

Associate Professor, Anthropology

• srosterh@indiana.edu
• (812) 855-0871

Research + Teaching Interests
environmental anthropology; agrarian studies; agro-ecological systems; political ecology; trade and development; anthropology of knowledge

Regional Expertise
Madagascar

Solimar Otero

Professor, Folklore and Ethnomusicology

• solioter@iu.edu
• (812) 855-1027

Research + Teaching Interests
gender, sexuality, Afro-Caribbean spirituality, and Yoruba traditional religion in folklore, literature, and ethnography

Regional Expertise
Nigeria

Oana Panaïté

Ruth N. Halls Professor, French and Italian

• opanaite@indiana.edu
• (812) 855-1134

Research + 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

Regional Expertise
South Africa

Clémence Pinaud

Assistant Professor, International Studies

• cpinaud@indiana.edu
• (812) 855-6281

Research + 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

Beth Samuelson

Director, African Studies Program

Director of Graduate Studies (DGS), African Studies Program

Associate Professor, Literacy, Culture, and Language Education, School of Education

• blsamuel@indiana.edu
• (812) 856-8256
• Global and International Studies Building, 3082

Research + 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

Byron Santangelo

Professor, Department of English

• bysantan@iu.edu

Research + Teaching Interests
African literature, postcolonial studies, and the environmental humanities; courses include introduction to African literature, environmental writing, and environmental ethics, and seminars in postcolonial/decolonial studies, South African literature and culture, climate change and literature, and environmental justice.

Regional Expertise
South Africa

Fred Schlegel

Lecturer, Management and Entrepreneurship, Kelley School of Business

• fredschl@indiana.edu
• (812) 855-5701

Research + Teaching Interests
international business; strategic planning; management of technology and innovation

Regional Expertise
Ghana; Kenya; South Africa

Whitney Schlegel

Associate Professor, Biology

Advisor, AMPATH

Advisor, Medical School Exchange with Moi University

• wreilly@indiana.edu
• (812) 855-7116

Research + Teaching Interests
chronic disease and food systems; human pathology; human physiology; comparative animal physiology; captive management of animals

Regional Expertise
Kenya

Allison Schnable

Assistant Professor, O’Neil School

• schnable@indiana.edu
• (812) 855-6947

Research + Teaching Interests
Globalization, NGOs, Organizational Theory and Behavior, Nonprofit Theory and Management, Philanthropy, Development, Cultural Sociology, Religion

Regional Expertise
Senegal

Abdulkader Sinno

Associate Professor, Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures

• asinno@indiana.edu

Research + Teaching Interests
Civil wars; Ethnic strife and other Territorial conflicts; Muslims in Western Politics; Political Islam.

Regional Expertise
Morocco

Laura L. Stachowski

Director, Global Gateway for Teachers, School of Education

Clinical Professor

• stachows@indiana.edu
• (812) 856-8507

Research + Teaching Interests
Global Gateway for Teachers

Regional Expertise
Ghana, Tanzania

Jessica Steinberg

Associate Professor, International Studies

• steinbjf@indiana.edu
• (812) 856-7326

Research + 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

Esi Eduwaa Thompson

Assistant Professor, The Media School

• esiethom@indiana.edu
• (812) 855-1726

Research + Teaching Interests
health risk and crisis communication; strategic communication; development communication

Regional Expertise
Ghana; South Africa

India Thusi

• ithusi@indiana.edu
• (812) 855-0156

Research + Teaching Interests
racial and sexual hierarchies as they relate to policing, race, and gender; Criminal law; Criminal procedure; Feminist legal theory; Police violence

Regional Expertise
South Africa

Estela Vieira

Associate Professor, Spanish and Portuguese

• evieira@indiana.edu
• (812) 855-6143

Research + Teaching Interests
Portuguese and Brazilian literatures and cultures; comparative Lusophone and Hispanic studies

Regional Expertise
Brazil; Portugal

Steve Vinson

Associate Professor, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures

• vinsons@indiana.edu
• (812) 856-6736

Research + Teaching Interests
ancient Egyptian language and literature; history of Graeco-Roman Egypt; ancient Egyptian transportation and trade

Regional Expertise
Egypt

Henry Wakhungu

Teaching Professor, O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs

• hewakhun@indiana.edu
• (812) 855-9820

Research + 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

Michael D. Wasserman

Assistant Professor, Anthropology

Assistant Professor, Human Biology

• mdwasser@indiana.edu
• (812) 855-7736

Research + Teaching Interests
primate ecology and evolution; environmental endocrinology, conservation biology and sustainability; evolutionary medicine and EcoHealth; nutritional anthropology

Regional Expertise
Uganda

David Williams

John S. Hastings Professor, Mauer School of Law

Executive Director, Center for Constitutional Democracy, Mauer School of Law

• dacwilli@indiana.edu
• (812) 855-6793

Research + Teaching Interests
constitutional design; Native American law; constitutional treatment of difference; relationship between constitutionalism and political violence

Regional Expertise
Liberia; South Sudan

Susan Williams

Walter W. Foskett Professor, Mauer School of Law

Director, Center for Constitutional Democracy, Mauer School of Law

• shwillia@indiana.edu
• (812) 855-6319

Research + Teaching Interests
comparative constitutional law; feminist jurisprudence; property law

Regional Expertise
Liberia; South Sudan

Attia Youseif

Lecturer, Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures

• ayouseif@iu.edu

Research + Teaching Interests
Teaching Arabic as a foreign language; Arabic grammar and morphology, phonology and syntax; Arabic literature; Dialects; the role of culture in learning a foreign language; Theories of language acquisition; Comparative Linguistics.

Regional Expertise
Egypt; Morocco