The African Studies Program hosts scholars, artists, and professionals from around the world whose interests and expertise engage with Africa and the global African diaspora. A mutually beneficial relationship, visiting scholars are able to avail themselves of the extraordinary resources available at IU, while contributing to the intellectual and cultural life of the university and greater Bloomington through public lectures, performances, film screenings, exhibits, student conversations, and more.
Dr. Ascher Lubotsky
Israel Institute Teaching Fellow and a Scholar in Residence in the Department of Political Science at the University of Houston
Research Fellow at the Institute for Israel-Africa Relations
Editorial Intern, Africa Today
August 2025-August 2026
Dr. Roxana Ma Newman
Indiana University Emeritus
Adjunct Associate Professor, Linguistics
Assistant Dean, Office of International Programs
August 2023-December 2025
Olga Filippova
IU-Ukraine Nonresidential Scholars Program
January 2025-December 2025
IU-Ukraine Nonresidential Scholars Program, Assistant Professor, Department of World Literature and Theory of Literature, Yuri Fedkovych Chernivitsi National University
August 2023 – December 2024
Dr. Gilbert Ndahayo
Filmmaker and Author, French and Francophone Studies
August 2023-August 2024
Center for African Studies, Eduardo Mondlane University, Mozambique
August 2022 - December 2022
Visual Artist
Founder of Invisible Borders Trans-African Project
Atelier E.K. Okereke (Lagos, Nigeria and Berlin, Germany)
August 2022 - September 2022
Professor of Education, University of Kinshasa
Fulbright Scholar 2022-2023, with IU School of Education and African Studies
September 2022 - January 2022
Saiba Bayo
Ph.D. candidate, Political and Social Science Pompeu Fabra University, Spain
September 2022 - February 2022
Zaam Kalemba Namuli Ssal
Carnegie-IREX Fellow, January 2022- March 2022
Head of Communications and Research, College of Natural Sciences, Makerere University
Roscoe Kasujji
PhD
Carnegie-IREX Fellow, January 2022- March 2022
Chair, School of Psychology, Makerere University, Uganda
President of the Uganda Clinical Psychology Association
Yakasah Wehyee
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Political Science, University of Minnesota
August 2021 - December 2021
Dr. Amos Sawyer
Former President of Liberia
Professor Emeritus of Political Science, University of Liberia
June 2020 - June 2021
Dr. Maria Grosz-Ngaté
Research Scientist and Associate Director Emerita, Past President, African Studies Association
June 2017 - December 2022
January 2023 - January 2024
Jacien Carr
Ph.D. Candidate, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Fall 2018 - Fall 2020
Samuel “Blitz” Bazawule
Filmmaker and Musician
April 2019
Associate Dean, Kabarak University
Senior Lecturer, Kabarak University
January - March 2019
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