John Akare Aden is a historian of Africa and executive director of the Fort Wayne African/African American History Museum and Society. He has conducted research in Mali on the history of Bamana blacksmiths and taught African history courses at several institutions.
Akin Adesokan is a novelist and associate professor of comparative literature at Indiana University, Bloomington. His research interests are in twentieth- and twentyfirst-century African and African American/African diaspora literatures and cultures, global postcoloniality, African cinema and contemporary global cinemas, nonfiction prose, and cultural theory.
Gracia Clark is professor in the Department of Anthropology at Indiana University. Her work with traders in Kumasi Central Market started in 1978 and ranges from life histories through credit, women’s leadership, food security, commercial policy, marriage, and religion.
James Delehanty is a geographer and associate director of the African Studies Program at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. His research has concentrated on the historical geography of the Sahel, with particular attention to agricultural expansion in twentieth-century Niger; land tenure in West Africa and Central Asia; and the social and environmental contexts of livestock disease control in East Africa, especially Kenya.
Marion Frank-Wilson is the librarian for African studies and head of the Wells Library’s Area Studies Department at Indiana University, with research interests in the intersections of open access publishing, scholarly communication, and collection development.
Maria Grosz-Ngaté is an anthropologist and associate director of the African Studies Program at Indiana University. She has conducted long-term research in Mali and Senegal with a focus on rural social transformations, gender, and Islam.
Karen Tranberg Hansen is professor emerita at Northwestern University, where she taught in the Department of Anthropology and the Program of African Studies. She is an urban and economic anthropologist whose research focuses on the informal economy, markets, trade, consumption, gender, and youth.
John H. Hanson is associate professor of history at Indiana University and an editor of History in Africa. His research concerns the history of West African Muslim communities during the past two hundred years, with books and articles concerning Tijaniyya Sufism in late nineteenth-century Senegal and Mali, Ahmadiyya Muslim proselytism in twentieth-century Gold Coast/Ghana, Arabic texts and translation, and West African Muslim engagements with modernity.
Carolyn E. Holmes is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Political Science at Indiana University. Her research examines the creation and consolidation of national identities and sustainable democracy in postconflict societies such as South Africa.
Eileen Julien is professor of comparative literature and French and Italian at Indiana University. She studies the connections between Africa, Europe, and the Americas, including the relationship between local African resources, such as oral traditions, and contemporary global forms such as the novel.
Tracy J. Luedke is associate professor of anthropology and coordinator of the Global Studies Program at Northeastern Illinois University. She has a long-standing research project on healing, religion, and politics in Mozambique and has recently begun a new project on the work lives of Chicago taxi drivers.
Lauren M. MacLean is associate professor in the Department of Political Science at Indiana University. MacLean’s research interests focus on the politics of state formation, social welfare, and citizenship in Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, and Kenya, as well as in American Indian/Alaska Native communities in the United States.
Takyiwaa Manuh recently retired as professor of African studies at the University of Ghana, Legon, where she was also director of the Institute of African Studies. Her research interests are in the areas of African development, gender, migration, and higher education in Africa.
Patrick McNaughton is Chancellor’s Professor of Art History at Indiana University. His research interests include the roles and social clout of artists, the history of metalwork in West Africa, the power of form and the nature of aesthetics, the construction of meaning in visual culture, and the mobility of art forms across geographic and cultural space.
Raymond Muhula is with the Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Unit of the World Bank, where he works on a wide range of development issues around public sector management, especially in Liberia, Nigeria, and The Gambia. He obtained his PhD in political science from Howard University.
Stephen N. Ndegwa is advisor at the World Bank’s Global Center on Conflict, Security and Development, based in Nairobi, Kenya. He was previously associate professor of government at the College of William and Mary and a Rice Family Fellow at Yale University.
Patrick O’Meara is special advisor to the Indiana University president, vice president emeritus, and professor of public and environmental affairs and political science. He was the co-editor of all previous editions of Africa. His interests include South African politics and international development.
Diane Pelrine is the Raymond and Laura Wielgus Curator of the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas at the Indiana University Art Museum. In addition to research connected with the museum’s permanent collection of African art, she is especially interested in textiles, ceramics, and issues connected with the collecting and display of African art.
Daniel B. Reed is associate professor of folklore and ethnomusicology at Indiana University. His research has centered in West Africa, especially Côte d’Ivoire, and his areas of specialty include music and identity, mask performance, music and immigration, and HIV/AIDS and popular music.
Amos Sawyer is a political scientist with a PhD from Northwestern University and a recipient of the 2011 Gusi Peace Prize. He was the President of the Interim Government of National Unity in Liberia from 1990 to 1994, is currently chair of the Governance Commission of Liberia, and was chair of the African Union’s Panel of Eminent Persons.
Ruth M. Stone is the Laura Boulton Professor and associate vice provost for research at Indiana University. Her research focuses on the study of musical performance among the Kpelle in Liberia, West Africa, particularly issues of spatial and temporal conceptualization.
Katherine Wiley is a postdoctoral fellow at the Carter G. Woodson Institute for African-American and African Studies at the University of Virginia. Her research interests include economic anthropology, work, gender, Islam, social status, dress, and humor with a focus on the Islamic Republic of Mauritania.