Staff

Staff

Beth Samuelson

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

Tavy Aherne

Tavy Aherne

Associate Director, African Studies Program

Adjunct faculty, African Studies Program

  • taherne@indiana.edu
  • (812) 855-5081
  • Global and International Studies Building, 3080

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

Marilyn Estep

Marilyn Estep

Administrative Coordinator

Alwiya Omar

Alwiya Omar

Clinical Professor, Kiswahili, African Studies Program

African Languages Coordinator, African Studies Program

Director, National African Languages Resource Center (NALRC)

  • aomar@indiana.edu
  • (812) 855-3323
  • Global and International Studies Building, 3076

Research + Teaching Interests
Kiswahili language and culture; pragmatics; second language acquisition

Regional Expertise
Tanzania

Cameron Lowery

Cameron Lowery

Data & Communications Assistant, African Studies Program

  • afrist@iu.edu
George Armstrong

George Armstrong

PROTA Research Assistant, African Studies Program

Graduate Student, Anthropology

  • geoarmst@indiana.edu