Director, African Studies Program
Director of Graduate Studies
Associate Professor, Anthropology
Research + Teaching Interests
circulation and value; material and visual culture; photography; gender and Islam; Senegalese diaspora in the U.S.
Regional Expertise
Senegal
Associate Director, African Studies Program
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Adjunct Faculty, Art History
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
Clinical Professor, Kiswahili, African Studies Program
African Languages Coordinator, African Studies Program
Research + Teaching Interests
Kiswahili language and culture; pragmatics; second language acquisition
Regional Expertise
Tanzania
Undergraduate Advisor for the African Languages Minor, and Linguistics
Please schedule an advising appointment through the Student Appointment Scheduler in One.IU.
Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies