Affiliate Faculty

Maria Hamilton Abegunde

Assistant Professor, African American and African Diaspora Studies
Affiliate, Gender Studies

Phone:

(812) 855-0477

Email:

maehamil@iu.edu

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

Phone:

(812) 855-7935

Email:

adesokan@iu.edu

Regional Expertise
Nigeria

Osita Afoaku

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

Phone:

(812) 855-0749

Email:

osafoaku@iu.edu

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

Phone:

(812) 855-5395

Email:

hakou@iu.edu

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

Issam Albdairat

Lecturer, Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures

Email:

ialbdair@iu.edu

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

Phone:

(812) 855-7012

Email:

talemneh@iu.edu

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

Senior Lecturer, Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures

Phone:

(812) 856-9167

Email:

imaalram@iu.edu

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

Email:

alsaleha@iu.edu

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

Regional Expertise
North Africa; Middle East

Clark Barwick

Senior Lecturer, Kelley School of Business

Phone:

(812) 855-2763

Email:

mbarwick@iu.edu

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

Email:

berryst@iu.edu

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

Regional Expertise
Guinea

Vincent Bouchard

Associate Professor, French and Italian

Phone:

(812) 855-2549

Email:

vbouchar@iu.edu

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

Phone:

(812) 855-1460

Email:

brassj@iu.edu

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

Richard S. Melvin Professor of Law Emeritus

Phone:

(812) 855-6145

Email:

brownkd@iu.edu

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

Regional Expertise
Ghana; South Africa

Beth Buggenhagen

Professor, Anthropology

Phone:

(812) 855-0617

Email:

babuggen@iu.edu

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

Senior Lecturer in Music (Chamber and Collaborative Music)
Coordinating Opera Coach (IU Opera Theater)

Phone:

(812) 856-7112

Email:

kcarball@iu.edu

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

Regional expertise
Kenya

Elisheva Cohen

Senior Associate Director of Experiential Learning and Professional Development

Phone:

(812) 856-3410

Email:

ellcohen@iu.edu

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

Email:

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

Phone:

(812) 855-2043

Email:

davis@iu.edu

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

Regional Expertise
North Africa

Barbara Dennis

Professor, Counseling and Educational Psychology, School of Education

Phone:

(812) 856-8142

Email:

bkdennis@iu.edu

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

Phone:

(812) 856-4647

Email:

desai@iu.edu

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

Regional Expertise
Rwanda

Vesna Dimetreska

Director, Global Education Initiatives
Joint Appointment, School of Education and Hamilton Lugar School of Global & International Studies

Phone:

(812) 856-8021

Email:

vdimitri@iu.edu

Research + Teaching Interests
My work focuses on expanding the world language programs in K-12 education across Indiana as well as internationalizing P-16 education. My research interests include language teacher cognition, language teacher identity, reflective practices of teacher educators, as well as instructional practices and professional development of language teachers in foreign/second language contexts and dual language immersion programs.

Regional Expertise
Europe; North Africa

Elizabeth Cullen Dunn

Professor, Geography

Phone:

(812) 856-2847

Email:

elcdunn@iu.edu

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

Phone:

(812) 855-1179

Email:

jeldon@iu.edu

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

Regional Expertise
Senegal; The Gambia

Temitope O. Erinosho

Associate Professor, Department of Applied Health Science

Email:

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

Professor, O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs

Phone:

(812) 855-2457

Email:

sefernan@iu.edu

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

Regional Expertise
South Africa

Greg Fisher

Professor, Entrepreneurship, Kelley School of Business

Phone:

(812) 855-2763

Email:

fisherg@iu.edu

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

Regional Expertise
South Africa

Laura Foster

Associate Professor, Gender Studies

Phone:

(812) 855-6977

Email:

fosterl@iu.edu

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

Phone:

(812) 855-1481

Email:

mfrankwi@iu.edu

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

Regional Expertise
Uganda; Nigeria; Zimbabwe; South Africa

Jane Goodman

Professor, Anthropology

Phone:

(812) 855-7516

Email:

janegood@iu.edu

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

Provost Professor, The Media School

Phone:

(812) 855-7935

Email:

mgrabe@iu.edu

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

Regional Expertise
South Africa

Marcus Groom

Assistant Professor, School of Education

Phone:

(812) 856-8258

Email:

mcroom@iu.edu

Research + Teaching Interests
Race, Literacies, Practice of Race Theory (PRT), Racial Literacies

Regional Expertise
Ghana

Elena Guzman

Assistant Professor of African American and African Diaspora Studies and Anthropology

Email:

elguzman@iu.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
Professor, English

Phone:

(812) 856-5653

Email:

vhallora@iu.edu

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 D. Hunt

Professor, Anthropology

Phone:

(812) 855-3857

Email:

kdhunt@iu.edu

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

Regional Expertise
Tanzania; Uganda

Will Kanyi

Lecturer, Kelley School of Business

Phone:

(812) 856-4991

Email:

wilwamat@iu.edu

Research + Teaching Interests
Learning Design and Technology, Management Information Systems, Open Educational Resources, Maker Education, Multimedia Production, Communication and Culture, the role of Makerspaces in enhancing informal learning, Open Educational Resources (OERs), and the use of Multimedia in education; Swahili for Business.

Regional Expertise
Rwanda

James Kelly

Associate Professor, Journalism, The Media School

Phone:

(812) 855-1708

Email:

kellyjd@iu.edu

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

Nicole Serena Kousaleos

Senior Lecturer, International Studies

Phone:

(812) 856-9109

Email:

nkousale@iu.edu

Research + Teaching Interests
Gender Violence; Ethnography & Embodiment Studies; Holistic Human Rights & Empowerment; Community and Collaborative Research Models

Regional Expertise
Côte d’Ivoire

Patricia Kubow

Professor, International and Comparative Education, School of Education

Phone:

(812) 855-0172

Email:

pkubow@iu.edu

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

Regional Expertise
South Africa

Alex Lichtenstein

Professor, History

Phone:

(812) 855-7504

Email:

lichtens@iu.edu

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

Senior Associate Director of Student Success
Associate Director of the HLS Living-Learning Center

Phone:

(812) 856-5351

Email:

slotven@iu.edu

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

Don Lyon

Director of Concussion Care Service and Clinical Professor, School of Optometry

Phone:

(812) 856-1964

Email:

dwlyon@iu.edu

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

Regional expertise
Rwanda

Pedro Machado

Associate Professor, History

Phone:

(812) 855-1320

Email:

pmachado@iu.edu

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

Bárbero Martínez-Riuz

Interim Director, Spring 2025
Associate Professor, Art History
Tanner-Opperman Chair in Honor of Roy Sieber

Phone:

(812) 855-9556

Email:

bamart@iu.edu

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

Phone:

(812) 856-2792

Email:

martinoa@iu.edu

Regional Expertise
Ghana

Nader Morkus

Associate Professor, Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures
Academic Director, Arabic Flagship Center

Phone:

(812) 856-2400

Email:

nmorkus@iu.edu

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

Phone:

(812) 856-1061

Email:

lnamorat@iu.edu

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

Regional Expertise
Brazil

Jackson Njau

Associate Professor, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences

Phone:

(812) 856-3170

Email:

jknjau@iu.edu

Research + Teaching Interests
paleolandscapes and paleoenvironmental contexts of hominid evolution

Regional Expertise
Tanzania

Isak Nti-Asare

Assistant Dean for Undergraduate Education and Student Affairs Co-Director, Cybersecurity and Global Policy Program

Phone:

(812) 856-4192

Email:

intiasar@iu.edu

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

Phone:

(812) 856-8272

Email:

nyikos@iu.edu

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

Professor, School of Public Health

Phone:

(812) 856-0502

Email:

cobeng@iu.edu

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

Distinguished Professor, Linguistics

Phone:

(812) 855-8199

Email:

sobeng@iu.edu

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

Dean and Herman B Wells Endowed Professor, Maurer School of Law

Phone:

(812) 856-1516

Email:

cochoa@iu.edu

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

Phone:

(812) 855-0871

Email:

srosterh@indiana.edu

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

Phone:

(812) 855-1027

Email:

solioter@iu.edu

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 of French and Francophone Studies, French and Italian

Phone:

(812) 855-1134

Email:

opanaite@iu.edu

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

Associate Professor, International Studies

Phone:

(812) 855-6281

Email:

cpinaud@iu.edu

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
On Sabbatical Spring 2025
Director of Graduate Studies (DGS), African Studies Program
Editor, Africa Today journal
Associate Professor, Literacy, Culture, and Language Education, School of Education

Phone:

(812) 856-8256

Email:

blsamuel@iu.edu

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

Fred Schlegel

Teaching Professor, Kelley School of Business

Phone:

(812) 855-5701

Email:

fredschl@iu.edu

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

Regional Expertise
Ghana; Kenya; South Africa

Whitney Schlegel

Associate Professor, Biology

Phone:

(812) 855-7116

Email:

wreilly@iu.edu

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

Regional Expertise
Kenya

Allison Youatt Schnable

Associate Professor, O’Neil School

Phone:

(812) 855-6947

Email:

schnable@iu.edu

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

Regional Expertise
Senegal

Julia Sherry

Lecturer, Department of Applied Health Science

Phone:

(812) 855-7130

Email:

jcsherry@iu.edu

Research + Teaching Interests
Global Health, Social Epidemiology, Determinants of Health Behavior, International Internship Abroad Preparation Seminar, and Internship Abroad. Coordinate internships and service-learning abroad for Global Health. Monitoring, evaluation, research and learning for international development non-profit organizations to help them end global poverty.

Regional Expertise
Kenya, Senegal, Uganda, Haiti

Wilson Shitandi

Academic Advisor, Undergraduate Programs, O’Neil School of Public Policy & Environmental Affairs

Email:

wishitan@iu.edu

Website:

https://drwilsonshitandi.weebly.com/

Research + Teaching Interests
Musicology; Ethnomusicology; Voice and Performance; Student academic support and mentoring

Regional Expertise
Kenya, Eastern Africa

Abdulkader Sinno

Associate Professor, Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures

Email:

asinno@iu.edu

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

Regional Expertise
Morocco

Laura Stachowski

Clinical Professor, School of Education
Director of Global Gateway for Teachers, School of Education

Phone:

(812) 856-8507

Email:

stachows@iu.edu

Research + Teaching Interests
Global Gateway for Teachers

Regional Expertise
Ghana, Tanzania

Jessica Steinberg

Chair, International Studies
Associate Professor, International Studies

Phone:

(812) 856-7326

Email:

steinbjf@iu.edu

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 Thompson

Assistant Professor, The Media School

Phone:

(812) 855-1726

Email:

esiethom@iu.edu

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

Regional Expertise
Ghana; South Africa

India Thusi

Professor of Law and Charles L. Whistler Faculty Fellow, Maurer School of Law
Senior Scientist, Kinsey Institute

Phone:

(812) 855-0156

Email:

ithusi@iu.edu

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

Phone:

(812) 855-6143

Email:

evieira@iu.edu

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

Regional Expertise
Brazil; Portugal

Steve Vinson

Professor, Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures

Phone:

(812) 856-6736

Email:

vinsons@iu.edu

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

Phone:

(812) 855-9820

Email:

hewakhun@iu.edu

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 Wasserman

Professor, Anthropology

Phone:

(812) 855-7736

Email:

mdwasser@iu.edu

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

Phone:

(812) 855-6793

Email:

dacwilli@iu.edu

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

Phone:

(812) 855-6319

Email:

shwillia@iu.edu

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

Regional Expertise
Liberia; South Sudan

Attia Youseif

Senior Lecturer, Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures

Email:

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; AI applications for language learning.

Regional Expertise
Egypt; Morocco