Darby FitzSimmons

Program Assistant - Data & Communications

• afrist@iu.edu
• (812) 855-8284

Beth Buggenhagen

Director, African Studies Program

Director of Graduate Studies

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

Tavy Aherne

Associate Director, African Studies Program

Director of Undergraduate Studies

Adjunct Faculty, Art History

• taherne@indiana.edu
• (812) 855-5081

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
Guinea; Mali; Ghana; Senegal; Nigeria; Zambia; Zimbabwe

Marilyn Estep

Administrative Coordinator

• estepm@indiana.edu
• (812) 855-5082

Alwiya Omar

Clinical Professor, Kiswahili, African Studies Program

African Languages Coordinator, African Studies Program

• aomar@indiana.edu
• (812) 855-3323

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

Regional Expertise
Tanzania

Krystie Herndon

Undergraduate Advisor for the African Languages Minor, and Linguistics

• kherndon@indiana.edu
• (812) 855-3323

Please schedule an advising appointment through the Student Appointment Scheduler in One.IU.

Hilary Warner-Evans

Managing Editor, Africa Today

• afrtoday@indiana.edu
• (812) 855-0647

Ian Thomas

Digital Toolbox Research Assistant

• afrist@iu.edu
• (812) 855-8284

Ascher Lubotsky

Editorial Intern, Africa Today

• afrtoday@indiana.edu
• (812) 855-8284

Dana Vanderburgh

Outreach Assistant

• afrist@iu.edu
• (812) 855-8284