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Africana Studies

Bessie House-Soremekun (Director)

Campus Address: Cavanaugh 503D
Phone: (317)274-5027
Fax: 317-278-3280
Email: beshouse@iupui.edu
Appointments: Public Scholar of African American Studies, Civic Engagement, and Entrepreneurship
Professor of Political Science
Professor of African American and African Diaspora Studies
Academic Interests: International Political Economy, Entrepreneurship, Economic Development, African Politics, World Politics, Comparative Politics, Women and Development

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Alice A Smith (Administrative Secretary)

Campus Address: CA540A
Phone: (317)274-8662
Fax: 274-2347
Email: alicsmit@iupui.edu
Website: www.iupui.edu

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Ramla Bandele

Campus Address: CA 503F
Phone: 274-1463
Email: rbandele@iupui.edu
Appointments: Associate Professor of Political Science

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Gina Sánchez Gibau

Campus Address: CA 413C
Phone: (317)274-4926
Fax: (317)278-5220
Email: gsanchez@iupui.edu
Appointments: Associate Professor of Anthropology
Faculty of University College
Academic Interests: Cultural anthropology, Cape Verde, diasporas, race and ethnicity, migration, multicultural education
Teaching: ANTH A104 Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
ANTH E403 Women of Color in the US
ANTH E384 The African Diaspora
ANTH E457 Ethnic Identity

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Ch. Didier Gondola

Campus Address: CA 503P
Phone: 274-8160
Email: gondola@iupui.edu
Appointments: Professor of History
Academic Interests: Colonial Africa, African Diaspora, popular culture, gender and urban issues in west and central Africa.
Teaching: World history surveys and upper-division courses in African history.

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Kelly E. Hayes

Campus Address: CA 335E
Phone: (317) 278-2639
Fax: (317)278-3354
Email: keehayes@iupui.edu
Appointments: Associate Professor of Religious Studies
Adjunct Associate Professor of Women's Studies
Adjunct Associate Professor of Africana Studies

Academic Interests: Afro-Brazilian and Afro-diasporan religions; Women & religion; Gender/Sexuality and religion; Possession religions; Ritual studies.

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Ronda C. Henry Anthony

Campus Address: Cavanaugh Hall 501N
Phone: (317) 278-0885
Email: ronhenry@iupui.edu
Appointments: Associate Professor of English and Africana Studies
Public Scholar of African American Studies and Undergraduate Research
Academic Interests: American Literature/Studies
African, African-American, and American Literature
Gender Studies
Teaching: Courses in English include early American literature, 19th century American literature, African American literature, the Harlem Renaissance, and Black masculinities
Courses in Africana Studies include Deconstructing Barbie, Hip Hop, Race, and Gender, and Africana Studies Research Methods.

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John R. Kaufman-McKivigan

Campus Address: CA 531
Phone: (317) 274-5860
Fax: 317-278-78000
Email: jmckivig@iupui.edu
Appointments: Mary O'Brien Gibson Professor of History
Academic Interests: Nineteenth-century U.S. history (the Antebellum, Civil War and Reconstruction eras), American reform movements, and American ethnic history, American labor history

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Missy Dehn Kubitschek

Campus Address: CA 501L
Phone: (317) 274-0080
Email: mkubitsc@iupui.edu
Appointments: Professor of English, Africana Studies,Women's Studies, and American Studies
Academic Interests: African-American literature, women's fiction, British Victorian fiction, and multicultural American literature

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Modupe Labode

Campus Address: 420 Cavanaugh Hall
Phone: 317-274-3829
Email: mlabode@iupui.edu
Appointments: Assistant Professor of History and Museum Studies,
Public Scholar of African American History and Museums,
Adjunct Professor of African American and African Diaspora Studies
Academic Interests: African American/African Diaspora
Women's History
Public History/Museum Studies

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Monroe H. Little

Campus Address: CA 503C
Phone: (317)274-0098
Email: mlittle@iupui.edu
Appointments: Associate Professor of History
Academic Interests: Afro-American Studies, American education, and recent American and Afro-American history

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Najja N. Modibo

Campus Address: CA 306B
Phone: (317)274-5027
Email: nmodibo@iupui.edu
Appointments: Associate Professor of Labor Studies
Adjunct Professor of African American and African Diaspora Studies
Adjunct Professor of Sociology
Academic Interests: Welfare and Workfare Policy, Organization of Work, the African American Experience, Critical Pedagogy, Women Workers, Globalization and the Caribbean, and Gendered-Racism.

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Obioma G. Nnaemeka

Campus Address: CA 543A
Phone: (317)278-2038
Fax: (317)278-7375
Email: nnaemeka@iupui.edu
Appointments: Chancellor's Professor of French, Women's Studies and Africana Studies
Academic Interests: black women writers, feminist theory, transnational feminisms, French/Francophone literatures, oral and written literatures of Africa and the African Diaspora, gender and development, human rights

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Una Okonkwo Osili

Campus Address: CA 527
Phone: (317)278-8908
Email: uosili@iupui.edu
Academic Interests: Microeconomics, international economics, and economics of developing countries

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Jennifer Thorington Springer

Campus Address: CA 501K
Phone: (317) 278-2636
Email: jtspring@iupui.edu
Appointments: Associate Professor of English
Academic Interests: Caribbean literature; postcolonial literature and studies; African American literature; ethnic immigrant literature

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Joseph Lennis Tucker Edmonds

Campus Address: CA504E
Phone: (317)274-7366
Fax: (317)278-9942
Email: jtuckere@iupui.edu
Appointments: Assistant Professor of Africana Studies and Religious Studies
Academic Interests: African and African American Religions, Religion and Globalization, Liberation Theology, Womanist Theology, Alternative Christianities, New Religious Movements in the African Diaspora
Teaching: Religion and the Politics of Dissent in the African American Experience, Comparative Liberation Theologies, Comparative Religions

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Dawn Wheeler

Campus Address: CA401
Phone: (317)274-5241
Fax: (317)278-2525
Email: dawwheel@iupui.edu
Appointments: Career Coach & Communications Specialist

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Mary Parker Wheeler

Campus Address: UC3014 or CA401
Phone: (317)278-7356
Fax: 278-2525
Email: mapwheel@iupui.edu
Appointments: Academic Advisor
Academic Interests: American History, Adult Education

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