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Leadership & Staff

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Director, African Studies Program
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

Tavy Aherne

Associate Director, African Studies Program
Outreach Coordinator, African Studies Program
FLAS Advisor, African Studies Program
Adjunct faculty, African Studies Program

Phone:: (812) 855-5081
Email:: taherne@iu.edu

Research + 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 and research methodologies

Regional Expertise
Ghana; Guinea; Mali; Nigeria; Senegal; Tanzania; Zambia; Zimbabwe

Nana Amoah-Ramey

Assistant Professor, African Studies Program
Director of Undergraduate Studies, African Studies Program
Assistant Professor, African American and African Diaspora Studies
Associate Editor, Africa Today Journal
Akan Language and West African Cultures

Phone:: (812) 856-1012
Email:: namoa@iu.edu

Research + Teaching Interests
African American & African Diaspora Literature; African Popular Music and Cultures; Gender Roles and Representations; African Language Pedagogy (Akan/Twi); Globalization and Post Colonialism

Regional Expertise
Ghana; West Africa

Alwiya Omar

Clinical Professor, Kiswahili, African Studies Program
African Languages Coordinator, African Studies Program
Director, National African Languages Resource Center (NALRC)