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Leadership & Staff

Leadership

Director, African Studies Program
Director of Graduate Studies (DGS), African Studies Program
Editor, Africa Today journal
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

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; South Africa; 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